According to anews release, Compass UOL aims to expand its Compass Academy training program specifically to teach students to work with Amazon Web Services on digital transformation projects in industries such as financial services, health care and consumer products. The program entails five months of asynchronous classes, live tutoring and practical challenges to make students comfortable with programming languages Node and React, and to train them how to use generative AI tools to develop new software. Students can then take two more months of classes to prepare for AWS certification exams in October.
The news release said Compass Academy has already given 2,600 scholarships at 100 universities, and it hopes to reach students from underserved communities through new university partners. Among their latest partners is the University of Port Harcourt (Uniport) in Nigeria, Africa, which serves nearly 40,000 students.
“When we started Compass Academy, we were 150 people and today we are 6,000, mostly software developers with many program graduates among them, including some of Compass UOL’s top leaders,” Compass UOL CEO Alexis Rockenbach said in a public statement. “We intend to continue hiring Compass Academy students because we might not know what the future will bring, but we know you will have learned to adapt.”
More information on how universities can partner with Compass Academy is available here.
