BALTIMORE — 18 Maryland students are amongst 400 Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship recipients to obtain up to $40,000 scholarship to examine computer science or engineering beginning this fall.
They may even get a paid internship supply at Amazon after their freshman yr of faculty.
Here are the recipients:
- Tineta (*18*), Elizabeth Seton High School
- Bliss Phinehas, Digital Harbor High School
- Christiana Alapa, Eleanor Roosevelt High School
- Tolib Sanni II, Western School of Technology
- Anthony Ramirez-Roca, Western School of Technology
- Mao Yu Cheng, Northern High School
- Omo Imode, Havre de Grace High
- Oluwasayofunmi Odusote, Howard High School
- Jeffrey Gao, Marriotts Ridge High School
- Franco Molinari, James Hubert Blake High School
- Gabriel Diaz, Wheaton High School
- Khadija Ndiaye, Northwood High School
- Kamsy Umeaku, Paint Branch High School
- Eniola Aloba, Eleanor Roosevelt High School
- Jehan Idsassi, Eleanor Roosevelt High School
- Ernest Binfon, Jr,. Maryland International World School
- Oumou Sall, Western High School
The recipients had been chosen primarily based on tutorial achievement, demonstrated management and participation in class and neighborhood actions.
“Our scholarship recipients’ unwavering dedication to tutorial excellence and their ardour for leveraging expertise to uplift communities is really inspiring,” mentioned Victor Reinoso, international director of training philanthropy at Amazon.
In Maryland, there are over 12,800 open computing jobs, however solely 5,121 students graduated with a computer science diploma in 2020, even whereas 99 p.c of all public excessive faculties supply a course.
