Nittany AI Alliance Workshop Series: AWS Kiro

Want a faster way to turn your AI Challenge idea into a working prototype?

Join us for a hands-on demo of Kiro, the AI engineering agent that professional developers use to ship quality software. Kiro turns plain-English prompts into structured specs and working applications, so what you build is exactly what you intended, whether that is a class project, a hackathon entry, or your Nittany AI Challenge prototype.

Penn State was selected by AWS as one of the universities to get free access to Kiro: 1,000 credits a month for a full year, normally a $240 value. Maria Fassinger, a Solutions Architect at AWS, will walk through what Kiro can do and how to get started with your student email.

Why Kiro:

• Ship code you can trust the first time. Kiro turns your prompt into a spec, generates the code, and verifies it against your intent with property-based testing, so you get code that is correct by design, not just code that passed a quick test.

• Work your way. Frontier and open-weight models run under one subscription across IDE, CLI, web, and mobile, alongside spec-driven development, agent hooks, steering, and native support for open standards.

• Keep work moving when you step away. Kiro Crew is the open-source workspace that runs across sessions, remembers your project, picks up long-running work on its own, and shows you every action it takes.

Getting started: All currently enrolled students can claim free Kiro access with their student email at kiro.dev/students.