“Your Voice is Power'' will also encourage students to channel their learning into an original remix of Pharrell’s new song “Entrepreneur”-a celebration of Black culture-using Python computer code.
Through this program, students will meet professionals who use music and computer science to fight for racial justice-people including Mike Larson, Pharrell’s audio engineer Chalece DeLaCoudray, a music technologist and Georgia Tech alumna and Joycelyn Wilson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Hip Hop Studies and Digital Media at Georgia Tech. The “Your Voice is Power'' curriculum teaches students about real-world computer science-based careers held by people of color. Teaching kids future-ready skills like coding, especially those kids for whom opportunities like this have not been equally distributed, is how we prepare the next generation of entrepreneurs.” “YELLOW at its core believes that education is a pathway to success. “This collaboration between YELLOW, Amazon, and Georgia Tech is a celebration of Black creators and change-makers,” said Pharrell. The National Science Board estimates that the number of Black professionals in science and engineering must more than double to be representative of Black people in the U.S. The number of Black students obtaining STEM degrees has increased over the last two decades, but Black professionals remain underrepresented within American science and engineering enterprises. Their research also shows that, in 2019, the median annual salary for computer science occupations was approximately $48,000 greater than the median wage for all occupations in the U.S. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that from 2014 to 2024, the market for computer science professionals will grow twice as fast as the rest of the labor market.
The program is part of Amazon’s $50 million investment in computer science and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.Īccess to high quality computer science education is more important than ever, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “Your Voice is Power” is the latest initiative between Amazon Future Engineer, Amazon Music, and Georgia Tech to expand computer science education to more students from underserved communities and groups currently underrepresented in tech.Īmazon Future Engineer is a program designed to inspire, educate, and prepare children and young adults from underrepresented and underserved communities to pursue computer science.
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This collaboration concludes with a competition for students to share their own voices through remixing Pharrell’s new song “Entrepreneur” using computer code on Georgia Tech’s learn-to-code-through-music platform, EarSketch.
Amazon and the Georgia Institute of Technology announced a new educational collaboration with Pharrell Williams and his education equity nonprofit YELLOW, called “Your Voice is Power.” The experience includes five teaching modules with lesson plans that teach coding while kick-starting meaningful conversations among middle and high school students and their teachers about the importance of racial justice.
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