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BALTIMORE — 18 Maryland students are among 400 Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship recipients to receive up to $40,000 scholarship to study computer science or engineering starting this fall.
They will also get a paid internship offer at Amazon after their freshman year of college.
Here are the recipients:
The recipients were chosen based on academic achievement, demonstrated leadership and participation in school and community activities.
“Our scholarship recipients’ unwavering dedication to academic excellence and their passion for leveraging technology to uplift communities is truly inspiring,” said Victor Reinoso, global director of education philanthropy at Amazon.
In Maryland, there are over 12,800 open computing jobs, but only 5,121 students graduated with a computer science degree in 2020, even while 99 percent of all public high schools offer a course.
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