CONNECT, LEARN AND GROW
The firsts are always what gives us an opportunity to experience new be whatever field it is. And so here we are- “The first session of GDSC Chandigarh University 2021”, which was held on September 5th, 2021 on the special occasion of Teacher’s Day. The orientation session was lead by the GDSC community lead (Ajayraj Singh), taking the responsibility of explaining the entire GDSC process and resolving all the student’s queries. The team makes it all and not one and so the core team members of GDSC Chandigarh University were the hosts.
Introductions make each other comfortable and so the session started with the introduction of the GDSC CU Lead- Ajayraj Singh.
Ajayraj Singh — DSC Lead
Followed, the session continued with the prime agendas of the meeting. For things to be crystal clear, the entire meeting was divided into sections.
And here are the main beings. Similar to the main() function where it's of course main and needed, the rituals are main and needed to give the start with high spirit. Guessed right, the ritual of starting with quote be it any field.
“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”
AGENDA:
To give a go, one needs to start from scratch even on knowing much or less.
And so the introduction to our growing club was mentioned.
No idea what GDSC is? No worries, below you go!
What is Google DSC?
Google Developer Student Clubs (GDSC) are community groups for college and university students interested in Google developer technologies. Students from all undergraduate or graduate programs with an interest in growing as a developer are welcome. By joining a GDSC, students enhance their knowledge in a peer-to-peer learning environment and build solutions for local businesses and their communities.
After the introduction of Google DSC, it was time to know about the vision and mission of the community.
Our Vision and Mission
- Build a strong technical understanding of google technologies, such as Android, Flutter, Tensor flow, Google Cloud, and more.
- Build community projects to solve real-world problems to help and support local businesses.
- Helping students to bridge the gap between theoretical and practical knowledge.
- Make the community ready for Solution Challenge and industrial work.
The session was going amazingly well with an audience number of more than 80. After the Vision and Mission of the community, the community guidelines were on the way.
Community Guidelines:
The community guidelines are strict and well organized. The community has Zero Tolerance Policy for in-person or online harassment.
What will be your takeaway from here?
- Strong foundation and understanding of 5 different leading google technologies.
- 5 minor projects in different technologies with 2 major solution projects.
- Understanding of open source projects and contributions.
- Industrial-level development experience.
- Personal Portfolio.
Technology Preview:
Flutter:
Cross-platform native application development toolkit.
Android | iOS | Web | Desktop — Windows, macOS, Linux | Embedded Devices
Firebase:
Back-end as a Service platform.
Realtime Database | Authentication Services | Crash analytics | Cloud Messaging | Cloud Storage | Cloud ML and many more.
Android:
Native Android development framework.
Android Studio
Google Cloud:
Cloud Computing Services.
Compute | Storage | VMs | Networking | Cloud APIs | Big Data | IoT | AI/ML
SQL Datastore | Cloud Build and many more.
Tensorflow:
Software library of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Cross-platform embedding — Tensorflow Core, Tensorflow Lite, Tensorflow JS.
Web:
Web development frameworks.
Angular — PWA, Static and Dynamic Websites | ReactJS | Node.js | MongoDB | Express.js ( MEAN and MERN stack ).
“ Step by step we fall,
Step by step we grow,
Adventures come our way
Helping us learn!”
And so followed by the next path to climb upon, we get into the roadmap having opportunities to grow more.
ADVENTURE ROADMAP FOR THE YEAR
The roadmap for the year is amazing, it included 2 sessions every month for the members. Starting with September month, two sessions were scheduled for the month of September, Orientation Session and Setup Community Session. In the month of October, we will be having two sessions for Flutter Dev. For November two sessions for Flutterfirefly Authentication & Firestore, about December, two sessions of GCloud, and for the month of January, two sessions for TensorFlow.
Oh, wait! It's not an end yet! As said we here go the surprise — the early preview of Glintspace.
The surprise for this session was the announcement of an innovative app - Glintspace, which will bridge the gap between the users and the company. Once you give it a start, perks are many and so, the users will get different badges to unlock different levels.
Who doesn't want to get featured? The time comes to reveal another great opportunity i.e how to get featured as a member of the week.
Opportunities are challenging and here it's the Github Streak Challenge. So what's stopping you now to be a part of GDSC? Get on here and be the member of the week.
The core team members will be tracking the GitHub Streak of the members and the member with the highest streaks will be featured as a member of the week on all GDSC CU social media platforms.
All the sections of the meeting were covered so it was time to introduce core team members.
Meet new Core Team:
Learning and Development Leads
Event Management Leads
Community Engagement Leads
Social Media Leads
Student Mentor and Design Lead
You seem eager to join in now! There you go grab this opportunity and swim deep with your passion.
JOINING LINKS:
- Developers Platform: https://developers.google.com/
- Discord Server: https://bit.ly/gdsccu-discord
- Slack Channel:https://bit.ly/gdsccu-slack
FAQs’:
1. How can we join the Core Team?
Ans: There are two ways you can join the Core Team: You can join the core team after visiting the website of GDSC and after applying for the core team you have to face the interview session and if you get selected in the interview you will be the core team member. The second way requires you to be an active member and you should be featured as the member of the week. And after reviewing your work you will be a permanent core team member.
2. What is Slack?
Ans: Slack is a messaging app for such communities that connects people to provide the information they need. By bringing people together to work as one unified team, Slack transforms the way organizations communicate.
The QnA session became very interactive, everyone was having fun and was getting their questions answered. Each and every query from the audience was solved by the core team. So this QnA session was the last section of this session. The session went amazingly well, after thanking the audience and core team members the GDSC team concluded the first GDSC CU’21 session.
