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AWS Student Builder Group — WCCCD, Detroit
Built in Detroit. Deployed everywhere.
We're the AWS Student Builder Group at Wayne County Community College District — a student community that treats the cloud like a home field, shipping real projects on AWS, earning certifications, and sending teams to hackathons and into the workforce.
01 / Mission
The cloud runs the world. Detroit students should help run the cloud.
AWS WCCCD, Detroit is a hands-on builder community for students across the Detroit metro — every school, every major, every experience level. We don't do lecture-hall tech clubs. We meet, we open the console, and we ship something before we leave the room.
This city retooled itself once around the assembly line. The next retooling is happening on cloud infrastructure, and the people who understand it will decide what Detroit builds next. Our job is to make sure a lot of those people started here — as students, with an AWS account and a room full of teammates.
Backed by the AWS Student Builder Group program, we get members real resources: credits, curriculum, certification paths, and a direct line into the AWS community.
Build
Weekly hands-on sessions on live AWS infrastructure. Deploy your first Lambda before midterms, not after graduation.
Certify
Structured sprints toward Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect — study groups, mock exams, and members who've passed sitting next to you.
Compete
Hackathon squads formed, prepped, and coordinated. You bring the ambition; we handle teams, logistics, and the practice reps.
03 / Member Benefits
Membership is free. What you get isn't small.
Workshops that ship
Every session ends with something running in your account — an API, a pipeline, a deployed site. No slideware-only nights.
Certification support
Cohort-based sprints toward AWS certifications, with study plans, mock exams, and members who already passed in the room.
Hackathon coordination
Squads formed around complementary skills, prep sessions before you go, and logistics handled so you can focus on the build.
Industry access
Speaker nights with AWS engineers, community events, and introductions that turn "networking" into actual conversations.
A portfolio, not a résumé line
Leave with deployed projects and real architecture decisions you can walk an interviewer through — because you made them.
04 / Leadership
The core team
The people who run the calendar, the budget, and the bar. Three seats are open — one of them could have your name on it.
05 / Core Team
Holding a role here is a job you'll talk about in interviews
Leadership isn't a title on your LinkedIn. It's a program you own, in public, with real stakes.
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Real responsibility
You own a budget line, a calendar, or a program — and everyone can see whether it ran. That's the point.
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Visibility
Your name on events attended by hundreds of students, and a presence in the AWS community beyond campus.
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Skills employers verify
Event operations, sponsor relations, technical mentorship, running a team — the things interviewers probe, because you actually did them.
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Direct mentorship
Time with AWS professionals and community leaders who've agreed to invest in this group's core team specifically.
06 / Apply
Leadership application
Three open seats — Events & Operations, Marketing & Community, Technical Workshops — plus Developer roles on the build side. Every core team role comes with an AWS Core Team badge, swag kit, credits, and a certification exam voucher. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Application received.
We read every application and reply within a week. If your experience fits, the next step is a short conversation with the current core team — less an interview, more a "what would you run, and how?"
07 / Join
Become a member
Free, open to every student in the Detroit metro, and no AWS experience required. Two minutes, and you're on the roster.
You're on the roster.
Welcome to AWS WCCCD, Detroit. Watch your inbox — you'll get the next event details and an invite to the community space. Bring a laptop to your first session; you'll be deploying something before it ends.