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AWS DeepRacer Student helps high school and college-enrolled students around the globe develop their ML skills through the excitement of autonomous racing. Any student aged 16 or older can leverage 20 hours of ML educational material and 10 hours of monthly model training compute resources for free. Apply your newly acquired skills by training and evaluating your own ML model, enabling you to learn model development through practical application.

The DeepRacer Student League concluded in 2024. Students and educators will continue to have access to the service for learning purposes and training ML models until the end of 2025.

Benefits

Access foundational learning material designed by AWS ML experts — for free with no AWS account required. Educators can use AWS DeepRacer Student to provide hands-on learning with the AWS DeepRacer Educator Playbooks.

Learn to train your first ML model through a hands-on approach, where you can access guided walkthroughs, customizable code, and a simulated environment for practical application.

Join students from around the globe to grow your skills and train an ML model in console, and connect with the DeepRacer community to share ideas on Discord » 

Getting started

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Get set

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Go (hands-on)

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Educator playbooks: bring ML to the classroom

The new Educator playbooks provide easy-to-integrate learning objectives, outcomes, key concepts, and hands-on activity tutorials. These allow educators to enrich the AWS DeepRacer Student experience and customize it to fit their classroom needs.

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Frequently asked questions

Get started for free with AWS DeepRacer Student

The DeepRacer Student League concluded in October 2024 with the Student Championship race. 

Yes, students and educators will continue to have access to the service for learning purposes and training ML models until the end of 2025.

AWS Customers can access the AWS DeepRacer simulator from the US East (N. Virginia) Region.

No, AWS DeepRacer Student is free for students to learn, train, and evaluate ML models. 

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