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Quick Introduction

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The Tiers

🚲 Applicant (if you fill out the application above)

🏍️ Scout in training (if accepted to the onboarding process)

🏎️ Scout (after 10 founder referrals or your 1st scouted startup)

🚀 Distinguished Scout (after 100 founder referrals or your 10th scouted startup)

➕ AWS University Scout (available to Scouts who are active undergraduate students in the U.S.)

⚠️ Dishonorable Discharge (if you purposefully break the rules)

The Perks

🎯 This program is about gaining experience and building your track record. We give you the context within which you can do that.

📣 The title of "Scout" is an outward sign of your involvement in the startup community.

🏎️ Being a Scout comes with perks:

• The title of Scout.
• Access to a private community of other Scouts with similar interests.
• Access to Open Scout's exclusive job board.
• Speaker events, fire-side chats, AMAs, and other community resources.
• The AWS University Scout program is available upon application to active undergraduate students in the U.S. who earn the title of Scout within the Open Scout program.

🚀 Being a Distinguished Scout comes with a lot more perks:

• All of the above and...
• Direct access to the Open Scout team. Advice, introductions, etc.
• Recognition as a top percentile performer to be noted on your resume and Linkedin.
• Career connections through a quarterly "resume book" that will be shared with our network of over 700 investors and a select group of startups.
• A notable amount of free SWAG (stickers, water bottles, t-shirts, etc.).
• The AWS University Scout program is automatically available to active undergraduate students in the U.S. who earn the title of Distinguished Scout within the Open Scout program.

➕ Being an AWS University Scout comes with additional AWS provided perks:

• The AWS specific title.
• Exclusive AWS related speakers and training sessions.
• Valuable referrals to job opportunities at AWS and their partners.

Your Resume

When this is all said and done it will boil down into a few lines on your resume that can be as powerful as you make them. Our team is here to give you the tools to stand out, but you will be the only one that controls the outcome. You will get what you give.

As a Scout