Tag: Computer Science
Amazon donates $15M to promote high school computer science for students in underserved communities
new curriculum aims to increase access, participation, and long-term career success for high school students from communities currently underrepresented in tech fields
Microsoft partners with colleges to address skills gap in high tech fields
A partnership between Microsoft and university systems hopes to stem the tide of a growing skills gap in high tech fields
Amazon awarding $40K Scholarships and Internships to college students majoring in Computer Science
Scholarship recipients awarded $10,000 per year for 4-years to study computer science starting this fall at the college of their choice. All of the recipients demonstrated financial need and more than half of the students are from an underrepresented group in the computer science field. Students also receive a guaranteed, paid internship opportunity at Amazon after their freshman year of college.
Amazon funding computer science courses to over 1,000 underprivileged high schools across the U.S.
Amazon is working to inspire and educate 10 million children and young adults each year from underprivileged, underrepresented, and underserved communities to pursue careers in the field of computer science and coding – part of the tech giant’s $50 million investment in computer science and STEM education
Amazon Future Engineer: Program funding Computer Science courses in over 130 New York City High Schools
… making computer science education accessible to children in under-served communities … Labor Statistics projects that by 2020 there will be 1.4 million computer-science-related jobs available but only 400,000 computer science graduates with the skills to apply for those jobs.
College majors graduating in STEM fields poised to earn the best salaries in 2019
Grads with engineering ($69,188), computer science ($67,539), and math and sciences degrees ($62,177) are projected to be the top-paid graduates in 2019.
What college degrees are commanding the highest salaries for the class of 2018?
Class of 2018 graduates earning degrees in engineering and computer science are expected to command the highest starting salaries at the bachelor’s-degree level, according to results of a new survey […]
