Students, Power Up with AWS!
Wherever you are in your learning journey, find events, community, and skill development opportunities with AWS Academic Advocacy. On the way, discover the vibrant AWS student communities that are AWS Cloud Clubs, led by AWS student Captains worldwide.
Meet the Team!
Students, join or lead an AWS student Cloud Club in your region!
Our award-winning AWS Student Cloud Clubs are open worldwide! Watch for one on a university campus near you.
Cloud Clubs are led by student leaders called Captains who organize events on their campus. Visit our Meetup page to find one near you. The next cohort for Captain applications will open in 2025.
Cloud Club Captains host events and increase awareness of AWS among their student communities.
Join them to earn perks such as certification exam vouchers and to participate in cross-club events, bespoke learning initiatives, and more. meet some bar-raising Captains by visiting our
Captain directory.
Captain directory.
Featured Learning Opportunities
New Course: Fundamentals of Generative AI for Beginners
In this four-part course for beginners, learn the basics of using and building Generative AI models. In the process, learn use cases, vocabulary, and the ethics necessary to use these new tools responsibly.
Taught by Curtis Evans, this course will get you started on your pathway to becoming conversant in AI topics.
Hands-On Workshops: Cloud Club Camps
Learn more about what a Cloud Club Camp is by reading this article
Video Series: The Grad Project
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Exploring text-to-SQL: How Carnegie Mellon grad is using Amazon SageMaker to use natural language
Harnessing the Power of Text-to-SQL Machine Learning with Amazon SageMaker
Events
Resources for Students
GitHub Learner Library
A library for learners! Take a look in this library for free, open, leveled content for students 18+ worldwide. You'll also find an infographic helping you discover pathways for learning as well as the material for our Camps.
Blogs of Interest
More Ways to Learn
AWS Educate
AWS Educate offers pathways into Cloud topics including Cloud 101, Deep Racer Primer, and Machine Learning Foundations. Learn for free with AWS Educate!
AWS Skill Builder
Skill Builder offers free lessons on many AWS topics and includes the immersive learning game Cloud Quest to discover skills you'll need as a Cloud Practitioner.
AWS Certifications
Ready to prove your skills to the world? Get certified after using Skill Builder courses for exam prep.
BuildOn AWS Live
Explore technical livestreams featuring the challenges hands-on practitioners face today. Join the conversation with industry experts and the global technical community on twitch.tv/aws.
AWS AI & ML Scholarship
The AWS Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Scholarship program, in collaboration with Udacity, aims to help underserved and underrepresented high school and college students learn foundational ML concepts to prepare them for careers in AI and ML.
All Builders Welcome Grant
This seasonal scholarship provides underrepresented technologists, within the first five years of their career, a complimentary trip to AWS re:Invent, our annual conference in Las Vegas.
CloudUp For Her
AWS CloudUp for Her Solutions Architect Associate is a flexible learning pathway available virtually for women globally. If you've already got your technical foundations and are looking to fast track your career in tech, this is for you!
Emerging Talent Community
The AWS Emerging Talent Community is an exclusive, invite-only platform designed to help learners from AWS Academy, AWS Educate, and AWS re/Start advance their cloud skills and pursue cloud careers.