‘Who’s Jeff Bezos?’ Moment world’s richest man walks into a high school computer science class backed by Amazon and hardly ANY of the students have a clue who he is
- Jeff Bezos visited computer science class at Dunbar High School in Washington D.C. on Monday
- At least one student was filmed turning around and asking a classmate: ‘Who’s Jeff Bezos?’ after he walked into the room
- The computer science class at the school is partly funded by Amazon’s Future Engineer program
- Amazon programmers were already in the classroom speaking to students about what they’ve been learning in the program
- The teacher later said ‘only about three’ of her 15 students immediately knew who the billionaire was when he walked in
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos was filmed surprising students at a Washington D.C. high school – but hardly any of the them knew who the billionaire was when he walked into the room.
Bezos made the unannounced visit to an Amazon-funded computer science class at Dunbar High School on Monday.
At least one student was filmed turning around and asking a classmate: ‘Who’s Jeff Bezos?’.
Jeff Bezos visited a computer science class at Dunbar High School in Washington D.C. on Monday. At least one student was filmed turning around and asking a classmate: ‘Who’s Jeff Bezos?’
The computer science class at the school is partly funded by Amazon’s Future Engineer program.
Three Amazon programmers were in the classroom at the time for an event showcasing what the high school juniors have been learning due to Amazon’s funding.
The Amazon employees who organized the event also didn’t know Bezos was going to show up.
The employees were being filmed roaming around answering questions from students when Bezos knocked on the classroom door.
In a video shot by an NBC reporter, the teacher, Ramona Hutchin, could be heard screaming out when she realized it was Bezos.
Amazon programmers were already in the classroom speaking to students about what they’ve been learning in the program when Bezos arrived to surprise them
Bezos spoke to several students in the room about what they’ve learned in the program that is partly funded by Amazon
The students watched on as their excited teacher hugged Bezos.
A student towards the back of the room could be seen looking around and inquiring who Bezos was.
He appeared to shrug and wave his hands after being told it the world’s richest man.
Bezos came up to that same student just moments later and spoke to him about his current coding project.
The student went on to explain his work and earned praise from the billionaire.
His teacher later told the Washingtonian that ‘only about three’ of her 15 students immediately knew who the billionaire was when he walked in.
Their teacher, Ramona Hutchin, could be heard screaming out when she realized it was Bezos. She hugged him as the students watched on