Amazon India on Tuesday launched a facility in Bengaluru that will provide “underserved” school students free, hands-on learning in robotics, computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D printing.
Amazon Future Engineer Makerspace will “empower” more than 4,000 young innovators by 2025, said the e-commerce company. The facility will work with The Innovation Story, a group comprising educators, to “provide underserved students in Classes 5 to 12 with immersive, hands-on learning experiences, nurturing their curiosity and equipping them with innovative technological skills to become future change-makers,” said Amazon in a press statement.
For beginners, there are three- to four-hour programmes to learn basic robotics and coding. Six-hour programmes will over two days “dive deeper” into advanced robotics, programming, prototyping and design. For the most…