They're among just 350 in NSW who completed an Amazon Web Services Virtual Work Placement last week.

Blaic Hicks said it was a massive opportunity to get to see the back end of some of the world's most sophisticated technology.

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One of the tasks they spent the week completing was programming a 'chat bot' - a version of the automatic computerised system that runs the Amazon help chat.

The hope is that the four year 11 students will be able to get it to a point where "we can basically talk to each other over this chat bot," he said.

"From the experience I've had it's not an easy ask. There's many different softwares you can use but we're doing it with Amazon's program, so it'll be interesting to see how it works."

It was part of a virtual work placement at Tamworth's Peel High School.

Careers Advisor Mrs Helen Herdegen said it was a fantastic opportunity for the high schoolers.

"It's a huge company and it gives the kids an opportunity to look at a platform outside Tamworth," she said.

They even got an opportunity to look at different career pathways and options for working in programming, she said. And they were among the first to get their hands on a new machine-learning technology, the Deepracer robot.

Could they one day even work for Amazon founder, CEO and multi-billionaire Jeff Bezos?

"Possibly," Justin Eunson said.

"If a job opportunity comes up," Blaic Hicks said.

"I think the whole field is something I'm really interested in. It would be good to get into."

The course ran from Monday to Friday.

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