GDSC Lead ’22

The Milestone

• I was selected as the Lead of Google Developer Students Club of Army Institute of Technology, Pune.
• I felt great because I wanted to become one from my first year, and the seniors who have been the campus Lead before, I really admire them till date. The legacy they left to continue was amazing.
• As a GDSC Lead, you are the PoC for your campus, and there were around 500+ GDSC campuses registered in India at that time, so it was a precious position at that time and gives you a lot of networking ability and open doors for opportunities if you can grab it.
• When I became Lead, I made friends out of my college and someone who was not from that region, made some regional friends over there and called ourselves the Leads of GDSC Pune.
• As a Lead, you had a few goals in a year to do. Basically, Google has its own programs to promote such as Android Study Jams, Cloud Study Jams or Arcade, and other programs for Flutter, Angular, and other related Google technologies.
• We as a Lead were tasked to bring awareness about the program and had to reach certain milestones to be recognized. I still wonder why we didn't promote Golang for Backend technology
• I myself conducted many study sessions on Android, and there were other domain heads who taught other Google technologies.
• The programs were focused on one conclusion, and that was Google Solution Challenge where 17 Sustainable Development Goals were the theme for the same.
• Our college students never made it to the top 50 teams, but I as a Lead pushed a lot to promote each and every program for their self-growth, and due to that, I lost track of my own development time, but it was a great opportunity as we focused on college problems and shortlisted a few pain points and asked students to build solutions on top of it to solve the issue, but due to time constraint, that was never fulfilled successfully.
• In the end, we were rewarded with a Graduation ceremony at Bangalore, and it was grand, and more than 400 people (estimated) attended that, and the journey as a Lead came to an end.