Story
The Journey Begins
The first time Google DSC arrived on campus, everything was going well until the COVID-19 outbreak impacted us all. Educational institutions closed, forcing us to shelve plans for tech events, talks, and bootcamps. However, GDSC embraced the challenge and successfully moved all activities online using Google Meet.
GDSC addressed the need for structured learning paths for specific technologies. For example, we held an online Flutter bootcamp with guidance from experienced alumni, providing a clear roadmap for those interested in front-end development. We reached out to all engineering departments at our university, emphasizing the value of software development, and are proud to see most of them now actively involved in learning software.
The Best Team
In computer science industry, there is very less amount of women's working and the problem is that they are not encouraged and motivated to work in the tech, we broke that stereotype, made it compulsory for every core team member to attend which resulted in female students discover Flutter and felt in love with the technology, now their vision is more clear and they aim to become Flutter Developers after graduation.
Flutter Bootcamp
Flutter bootcamp was the first online bootcamp in DSC Pakistan which used to be held on weekend days like Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 9:00PM, which became an ideal time for students where we had attendance of more than 90+ students in a single class. After bootcamp, Gave paid internships to top three performers.
A student from India, reached out since Urdu and Hindi are similar. The journey became easier to learn Flutter in Urdu. Later we built a team to continue the legacy (here is Palivi joining the team virtually from india)
Python Bootcamp
But teaching Data Science, which is new in Pakistan with very few opportunities, was still a long procedure, because it has requirements to be fulfilled and a bigger roadmap than any other technology. We understood the problem and made a decision to make a bootcamp completely focused on learning Python and planned later to start Data Science Bootcamp.
A series on interactive study jam on Python, where the core focus was to teach Development and Automation conducted by top-notch freelancers from DHA Suffa University in which concepts related to real-world programming were focused by core team members Tarun Kumar and Bahawal Baloch.
Python Bootcamp was a huge success with more than 100 participants, who joined class on weekends, not only from DHA Suffa University but all the universities in Karachi collaborated.
Sponsored By Datacamp
We also got sponsored by Silicon valley based Edtech startup DataCamp with 500 accounts. one account cost 60K PKR making us the only chapter to get this sponsorship.
Find Pakistan :) Datacamp
Cyber Security Bootcamp
In a world full of cyber security threats, we need defenders who can help us save the world for good, so our last bootcamp was focused on cyber security teaching people fundamentals and to ace their technical interviews.
GIT Crash Course
Breaking Records and Creating History was the main vision in which we also identified a major issue where students were not implementing the concepts of version control system, in which an ultimate guide series was made in native urdu language to educate students. (we taught github basically :D)
More events & webinars that we conducted
The End
This was the best moment of my life. I received an email selecting me as the Google DSC Lead for my university. It felt like a dream come true, especially since I was the first applicant.
With all the excitement, I also understood the significant responsibilities that came with the role.
