Microsoft adds to developer resources for students

Microsoft has introduced Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors, who are tasked with helping their peers learn about things they care about most, from social issues to new technologies.

Ambassadors get a first look at new Microsoft technologies, gain leadership skills, and receive mentoring from professionals in the industry, then go on to share their knowledge with their peers, including via the Microsoft Learn platform. The position is open to any higher-ed student, said Charlotte Yarkoni, in a blog post.

"We are aiming to help skill millions of students in the coming years — helping tomorrow’s leaders gain knowledge in areas spanning topics like responsible AI, Internet of Things (IoT), and building cloud-native apps, among so much more," she said in the post.

Yarkoni also announced:

Source: Microsoft website. A new hub for educators and students is now available on Microsoft Learn.

- A new home just for educators and students, including Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors, on Microsoft Learn.

- New learning paths based on popular courses at leading universities for data science, cloud development, and AI engineering, including:

• Carnegie Mellon University: Intro to Cloud Administration and Intro to Cloud Development
• Oxford University: Cloud & Artificial Intelligence: Principles of Edge Computing
• University of California at Berkeley: Foundations of Data Science

- A new series of learning paths that take a solution-driven, project-based approach to learning, involving specific use cases:

• Track Global Air Quality with Azure Maps
• Classify Endangered Bird Species with Azure Custom Vision
• Create a Chat Bot to Help Students Learn with Azure Bot Service
• Help Remote Farmers Protect their Crops with Weather Alerts using Azure Functions
• Track Wild Polar Bears with Stream Analytics and Machine Learning Classification
• Analyze Climate Data with Azure Notebooks

- More YouTube videos for Python enthusiasts

Fifty additional videos complement the existing 44-part video series called Python for Beginners, which is designed to provide short lessons about Python and how to use it to build AI apps on Azure. The new videos focus on popular Python libraries like NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn.

- Free Azure accounts, plus a US$100 credit, for qualifying students. Free developer tools are included, as well as free learning paths and labs.

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