Month: February 2024

PHILADELPHIA, February 21, 2024 /3BL/ – To celebrate Lunar New Year, Xfinity is launching a new, curated collection of Asian and Asian American entertainment across all its devices, including Xfinity X1, Xfinity Flex, and Xumo Stream Box.

As part of this year’s collection, from February 5 – 11, Xfinity will unlock access to popular Asian and Asian American streaming services, including Kocowa, Anime Network and Hi-YAH! through the company’s “Free this Week” program.

Lunar New Year is one of the most important festivals for millions around the world who return home to spend time with family and friends, eat an abundance of traditional foods, and share gifts with lots of red – a symbol of good luck and fortune for many Asian cultures. The Year of the Dragon symbolizes good luck, strength, and health.

For the fourth year in a row, Comcast is teaming up with Gold House, the non-profit collective of Asian and Pacific Islander cultural leaders, to bring content recommendations from notable voices in the community into the experience. Key highlights of this year’s experience includes:

Free movies & TV shows on demand from Kocowa, Anime Network and Hi-YAH!Featured Asian and Asian American programming from networks like Xumo Play, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Tubi, GMA Pinoy, Filipino On Demand, tvKpop, Spotify, among othersSupplementing the Gold House recommendations will be additional recommendations from Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), Common Sense Media, and celebrity guest editors including Vicky Nguyen (NBC News), Brian Tee (Expats on Prime Video) and Molly Yeh (Food Network and cookbook author).A new feature on X1 called Themes enables customers to customize the look of their device with their Lunar New Year zodiac animalA unique digital wallpaper of swimming Koi Fish, which symbolize good luck, abundance, and perseverance.

To access the destination, Xfinity customers can say “Asian American” or “Lunar New Year” into their voice remote.

Year round, Xfinity customers can visit the “Asian American Film & TV” destination on their devices,, a one of a kind showcasing hundreds of curated titles, integrating culturally relevant content from all major network and streaming partners and celebrating significant cultural observances.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., February 21, 2024 /3BL/ – Amazon and Discovery Education today announced a new partnership bringing Amazon Career Tours to classrooms nationwide. Amazon Career Tours offers free and interactive resources aligned to learning standards exploring the cutting-edge careers of the future by showcasing the innovative people and technology behind Amazon’s innovations.

Designed for students in grades K-12, Amazon Career Tours features comprehensive educator resources and ready-to-use (RTU) activities. Current RTUs include:

Space Innovation Tour: Students explore NASA’s Orion spacecraft used in the Artemis I test flight and learn about the many careers necessary to advance the space program. In this RTU, students meet with professionals from Amazon Future Engineer, Lockheed Martin, and Cisco as they develop the next phase in human space exploration.Robotics Fulfillment Center Tour: Educators take students on a virtual tour of the Amazon Fulfillment Center and discover how humans and robots are working together to ensure that the products purchased online reach their final destinations efficiently and without damage. The interactive tour offers a standards-aligned look at the careers available in robotics and fulfillment.AWS Data Center Tour – Uncovering Cloud Computing: Students tour an AWS data center to learn from the ground up how the cloud is built, maintained, and connected to billions of devices and people every single day.AWS Data Center Tour – Keeping Data Safe: Students learn from cybersecurity experts, engineers, and other STEM experts to discover how big data keeps people and the planet safe.

Amazon Career Tours features additional resources to ensure lasting learning, including a key student learning guide that aids educators in navigating the career tours and explains key terms and ideas, and a student note catcher that captures the essential learnings of each activity. Accompanying educator guides feature materials such as background information, activities, and check-ins to make it simple for educators to incorporate the content into any lesson plan or learning environment.

“This current generation of K-12 students will soon enter a fast-changing workforce in need of innovative thinkers. Now is the time to help young people explore and prepare for how next-gen technologies will create new and enhance existing roles in the workplace of tomorrow,” said Victor Reinoso, Global Director of Education Philanthropy at Amazon.

Amazon Career Tours are available through, Amazon Future Engineer, a global childhood-to-career STEM education program that provides all young people the opportunity to explore their potential. Learn more about Amazon Future Engineer at amazoncareertours.discoveryeducation.com or within Discovery Education Experience, the award-winning K-12 learning platform. Connecting educators to a vast collection of high-quality, standards-aligned content, ready-to-use digital lessons, intuitive quiz and activity creation tools, and professional learning resources, Discovery Education provides educators with an enhanced learning platform that facilitates engaging, daily instruction.

“We’re proud to partner with Amazon to provide transformative resources that support lifelong success. By taking students behind-the-scenes of technology, they can see their future role in it,” said Amy Nakamoto, General Manager of Corporate Education Partnerships at Discovery Education.

For more information about Discovery Education’s award-winning digital resources and professional learning solutions visit www.discoveryeducation.com, and stay connected with Discovery Education on social media through X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.

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About Amazon Future Engineer 
Amazon Future Engineer is a childhood-to-career computer science education program intended to inspire and educate millions of students from historically underrepresented communities globally, including millions of students in the U.S. each year. Students explore computer science through school curriculum and project-based learning, using code to make music, program robots, and solve problems. Additionally, each year Amazon Future Engineer awards hundreds of students with four-year, up to $40,000 scholarships and paid industry internships to promote diversity and inclusion in the field. The program is currently available in Canada, France, Germany, India, the UK and U.S. For more information, visit amazonfutureengineer.com.

About Discovery Education 
Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. Through its award-winning multimedia content, instructional supports, innovative classroom tools, and corporate partnerships, Discovery Education helps educators deliver equitable learning experiences engaging all students and supporting higher academic achievement on a global scale. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 100 countries and territories. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. Discovery Education partners with districts, states, and trusted organizations to empower teachers with leading edtech solutions that support the success of all learners. Explore the future of education at www.discoveryeducation.com.

Contacts 
Amazon 
Email: amazon-pr@amazon.com

Grace Maliska 
Discovery Education 
Email: gmaliska@dicoveryed.com

Originally published by Fortune on brand-studio.fortune.com

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