Amazon on Nov. 10 held Amazon Tech Experience Day at Incheon Sangsang Platform, offering about 570 students from eight middle schools in the Incheon area a chance to learn and experience artificial intelligence (AI), coding and robotics.

Amazon Tech Experience Day focuses on helping youths explore new technologies, build practical capabilities and grow into innovators.

It is an experiential STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education program that builds on Girls' Tech Day, which has been held in Incheon since 2023.

At this year's event, students learned how AI works, how to use AI responsibly and how to develop their ideas into practical solutions through five experience booths and two workshops.

At booths planned and run by Amazon employees, students used prompts they wrote themselves to command an AI soccer agent team and became data centre operators responding to a simulated emergency.

Faculty members and students from Korea Polytechnics Incheon Campus (KOPO) also demonstrated how AI recognises hand gestures in real time, and Awesome School, an edtech company specialising in digital and AI education, introduced Amazon's Working Backwards approach, which starts from the customer and designs solutions.

Students also held discussions on opportunities and challenges surrounding new AI technologies.