US & Canada News News: Studying abroad guide: The competition to secure admission to top-tier universities is intensifying for globally aspiring students. Education advisors
While good grades for admissions to the creme de la creme colleges are a given, education counsellors warn that those are just a foot in the door. They are pushing students to find exotic extracurricular activities to make their CVs stand out - be it rowing, fencing, robotics, or the good old social work. And a number of organisations and clubs have sprung up, offering quick-fix solutions.
With their Future Engineer programme, Amazon is helping children from low-income communities learn robotics, AI, coding and more to develop innovation skills and find a career in engineering. Here’s how the campaign is helping them find their voices and ambitions.
Five Mumbai teens from underprivileged homes, who are in Geneva to represent India at the robotics challenge, speak to mid-day about why their mean machine is one-of-a-kind