Amazon's Your Voice is Power: Coding & Social Justice for Indigenous Youth

0:00It's March 31st. This is Canada News Today, powered by AI. Amazon just kicked off the fifth year of its Year Voices Power Program, aiming to reach over 35,000 Canadian middle and high school. Students with computer science lessons, nicks with social justice topics. This year's edition lost in Winnipeg with the indigenous hip-hop duo Snotty Knows Reskids who are nominated for 2026 Juno Awards. And it built on last year's success with more than 30,000 kids already involved. Students dive into coding basics through eight modules that cover First Nations, Inuit, and Métis histories like Residential Schools and Reconciliation Calls to Action while remixing tracks from artists such as Isanabe and J. Lee Wolf using a free tool called Ear Sketch in English. French, OG way, and Inuptitude. The program highlights a big gap. Indigenous folks are 70% less likely to work in tech, holding just 1.4% of those jobs.

1:00Compared to 4.8% for others, while tech skills top the list for fastest growing careers by 2030. Teachers get the full curriculum for free in grades 7-12 with the remix competition offering $5,000 scholarships to one. Indigenous winner and one ally by June 30th plus an exclusive Amazon music playlist celebrating these artists' stories of perseverance.