Intel® Edge AI Scholarship Program

Applications for the Intel® Edge AI Scholarship Program closed on December 10, 2019. We appreciate your interest in Udacity, and encourage you to review other scholarship opporortunities on our scholarships page. You can also browse the Nanodegree programs and free course offerings in our catalog.

The scholarship program begins with the application. All students interested in the scholarship opportunity should submit a completed application before the application deadline. All applicants will then be notified of the admissions decision via email, regardless of whether they are accepted into the program. Accepted students will receive instructions via email about how they can enroll in the initial scholarship fundamentals course.

Phase 1: Scholarship Fundamentals Course

In the first phase of the Intel® Edge AI Scholarship Program, students will receive rigorous training, typically requiring a few hours of work per week for 2.5 months. Students in the fundamentals course will be trained on job relevant skills in Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit fundamentals, receive a robust community experience supported by Udacity mentors and a dedicated Community Manager, and have a chance to qualify for a full Nanodegree program scholarship. At the end of the fundamentals course, Udacity in collaboration with Intel will select 750 students to be awarded a full scholarship to a Udacity Nanodegree program. Selections will be made based on successful completion of lessons and quizzes in Phase 1 and student participation and support of classmates in the student community.

Phase 2: Full Scholarship for a Udacity Nanodegree program

750 students in the program will earn a scholarship to a new Nanodegree program being developed with Intel®. Nanodegree programs typically require several hours of work per week for the duration of the Nanodegree program. This program will offer world-class curriculum, a groundbreaking classroom experience, industry-leading instructors, thorough project reviews, and a full suite of career services.

In the initial scholarship fundamentals course, you will learn to accelerate the development and deployment of high-performance computer vision and deep learning solutions, using a wide range of hardware and the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit. The subsequent Nanodegree program will introduce you to the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit, which allows developers to deploy pre-trained deep learning models through a high-level C++ or Python inference engine API integrated with application logic. Based on convolutional neural networks (CNN), the toolkit extends workloads across Intel® hardware (including accelerators) and maximizes performance.

Computer vision and edge AI are becoming instrumental in powering everything from amusement parks to shopping malls to healthcare centers, and this program will teach fluency in some of the most cutting-edge technologies.

You can study on your own schedule so long as you complete the course within 2.5 months. That is to say, you’ll have complete access to the course directly in your classroom 24 hours a day. We understand that students have different schedules and will work on their course at different times and on different days. What’s important is that students make consistent progress each and every week and get through all the content before the end of the 2.5-month period.

These scholarships do not guarantee you a job. But Udacity students often do get jobs after graduating from programs like these. Check out some student stories.

The program takes place 100% online. You can work from wherever you want to, as long as you have a working internet connection.

Online applications for the scholarship will be available from November 12, 2019 to December 10, 2019.

Upon completion of the fundamentals course, Udacity and Intel® will provide 750 Udacity scholarships.

Udacity's single courses consist of lessons, videos, and quizzes. But they do not provide comprehensive staff support available to answer technical questions, review student projects, and provide guidance and help. Scholarship students in Phase 1 of this program will receive technical guidance from community mentors and will participate in an actively managed scholarship student community where they can engage with and receive support from their fellow classmates.

After the fundamentals course, full Nanodegree program scholarships will be awarded to students based on the progress in Phase 1 and their contributions to the Udacity community. The scholarships awarded will be for a brand-new Nanodegree program that Udacity and Intel® are currently developing together.

After the initial 2.5-month Phase 1 of the program ends, follow-up scholarships will be provided for a Udacity Nanodegree program in a related field. Students will be evaluated based on successful completion of lessons and quizzes in Phase 1 in addition to their active participation and support of classmates in the student community.

You can find more details on the Terms and Conditions here.

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