NEWARK, NJ - Thanks to e-commerce giant Amazon, students and teachers in Newark and beyond have access to computer science education sources through its Amazon Future Engineer program.

Amazon Future Engineer is providing free access to sponsored computer science courses in the United States, which is for independent learners grades 6-12, and teachers who are remotely teaching this age group. Parents can also access this curriculum.

Amazon Future Engineer is offering a virtual robotics program through partners CoderZ. The fully sequenced course accommodates age levels from second grade with block-based coding to high school with text-based coding.

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Amazon Future Engineer also is providing access to EarSketch, a free program that helps students learn to code through music. Grammy Award-winning artists Ciara and Common have provided studio-quality music STEMs that students can remix from home using code.

Check Amazon’s free courses website to sign up for these programs, and to check out more free computer science programming being added by the Amazon Future Engineer team.