Year 1 Builders Merch Delivery!

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Year 1 Merch 💡

When I was selected to be a member of the AWS Community Builders program, I didn’t realise quite how excited I would get about one particular thing…

Swag. That is… AWS swag.

As an IT company, they really know how to do merch.

I received a text this afternoon. The driver is on.his.way.

Here I was waiting for the UPS delivery driver to arrive, pretending to reorganise the bookshelf for the hundredth time. Then I heard it, the beep beep beep of a delivery van reversing up our driveway!

There are perks to being in the program, and receiving a swag kit specific to your cohort year is one of them.

Opening the box, the feeling was a little like that scene from the 1971 movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory where Charlie Bucket finds the golden ticket in his Wonka bar and wins a tour of the Wonka factory.

I found AWS merch, lots of branded merch! Pin badge, notebook, tote bag, baseball cap, iron-on badges, highball flask, stickers!

This is very cool of Jason Dunn and his Builder Management team to offer this to the Community Builders. It is their way of thanking builders for what we do and I think it is great! I think it is… a community.

If you would like to know more about the program and how to apply next year, I highly recommend checking this link out: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/community-builders/