CARNEGIE, Pa. — Students from local high schools kicked off the start of October by partaking in a day-long event of programming and racing autonomous vehicles at the Boys and Girls Club of Western Pennsylvania in Carnegie.
The event, put on with Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud-based 3D racing simulator called DeepRacer, had students start the morning by learning how to code using the Python programming language. Then, students took what they learned and programmed shoebox-sized self-driving vehicles from Amazon Web Services Inc. for a series of competitive races and timed laps.
And while these small vehicles weren’t equipped with tech from Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle companies Argo AI or Aurora Innovation Inc., the task of learning about the programming behind such technologies could inspire students to pursue careers with AV companies, or the even larger tech industry more broadly, someday.
That’s at least the hope of the AI Pathways Program at the nonprofit Boys and Girls Club of Western Pennsylvania, which partnered with Amazon for the event.
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