Google Student Ambassador
The Google Student Ambassador Program has been started by Google to connect with Universities all over the globe. Under this program, Chitkara University has its own Google Students Clubs, in both Punjab and Himachal Pradesh campuses. These clubs comprise of some of the most innovative minds in the campus. These clubs are led by the Google Student Ambassadors, who acts as a liaison between the university and Google. GSAs are selected by Google through a rigorous selection process.
The GSC-CUs work as innovative channels in helping students of Chitkara University learn about various Google programs, products and to interact with Google teams. This in fact is, a 2-way channel, where the Universities also contribute to Google Ecosystem by helping them understand the culture of our fine institutions and how well we adapt to the dynamic atmosphere around us.
The Google Students Clubs have and continue to live up to the University motto of ‘Explore Your Potential‘ and we wish them all the best for all their future endeavours.
Presently both Chitkara Campuses at Baddi, Himachal Pradesh and Jansla, Punjab have Google Students Clubs.
Google Students Club, Punjab
Google Students Club, Himachal
Google Students Club, Chitkara University, Punjab
The Program is run under the Chitkara Department of Computer Sciences and is headed by:
Ms. Meenu Khurana (Deputy Dean)
meenu.khurana@chitkara.edu.in
Ms. Ravneet Kaur (GSA Program Co-ordinator)
ravneetkaur.cse@chitkara.edu.in
Mr. Mehul Sharma (Google Student Ambassador)
mehul.23sharma@gmail.com
Mr. Gunraj Singh (GSA Alumni)
gunraj.singh91@gmail.com
GSC-CU Punjab Team Members list is available here.
Event Pictures:
Here is what Gunraj singh (GSA Alumni) has to say about his journey:
“I and many more students from the university applied for this coveted title of GSA through a form, from that students was shortlisted for the 2nd round which was a telephonic round, he was telephonically interviewed by a Googler which lasted for 1.5hrs, after which it was all anticipation for the result, hopefully I came through and was selected as a Google student ambassador to CHITKARA UNIVERSITY.
Soon after I was invited by Google to attend GOOGLE INDIA COMMUNITY SUMMIT, 2013, which was held in Goa at the Leela palace.
Now being a GSA I had few responsibilities to be taken care of for which I formed a Google Students Club comprising of few selected Google enthusiasts from the college
We organised many technology related events in the university awarding the students of increasing implementation of the technology in day-to-day life.
We developed a Google+ page of the university and promoted it among students
Google Linguistic Research– Google Students Club hosted a part of Google linguistic research process in the university .The event was conducted on Tuesday, September 24th 2013. An alliance from Emerging Markets Research & Development | Google, Mrs. Vibha Sandlas Sharma | gave us an opportunity to host a part of her linguistic researchprocess in our university. The research required digital handwriting samples in ‘Punjabi’ from 150 volunteers. In spite of ongoing exams, we received an over-whelming response from the students. Every participant was given a cool Google T-shirt as a token of appreciation for their valuable contribution to the research drive!!
Android Workshop-It was an android workshop conducted for the students of Chitkara University and was conducted to make students aware about Android app development. Mr. Gautam and Mr. Inderneel from BLRDroid under Google Development Group from Bangalorecame to address the students, to give the knowledge about Android architecture and to make students comfortable with ADT in SDK.
Techathon-In association with IEEE society, a two day workshop on cloud computing was organised in Chitkara University, Punjab on 29th and 30th October, 2013. The workshop, held with the aim of spreading knowledge amongst students about the workings of cloud computing, was a huge success, with over 30 teams participating.
Google Online Marketing Lab-A few students from various colleges and universities were selected to be a part of the Google Online Marketing Lab and I was one of them. The event was held at Google Office in Gurgaon
Certification- To top that, I had a prestigious opportunity to get certified in Adwords and become a Google Adwords Individual Certified.
SEO training- A live hangout session on search engine optimisation was held in the university.
Well there are many more minute things which were done.
I want to pay my gratitude towards the whole faculty of CSE department, our honourable Deputy Dean, Ms. Meenu Khurana and Faculty Advisor-Ms. Ravneet Kaur , for the support and motivation.
ThankYou,
Gunraj Singh.
GSA Alumni|Chitkara University”
Here is what Mehul Sharma (GSA) has to say about his journey till date:
“Since Gunraj has already told you guys about the Interview Procedure so I won’t go around it again.
The Google Students Club was formed just after I returned back from the GSA summit which was held at the Infosys Campus, Pune. We got around 250+ registrations from the students who were interested to get into the club at various positions. After short-listing and interviewing some of them, we included 12 of the brightest minds of the campus into our club.
Since the formation of the club we have organized three events which are as follows:
Approit- The focus of this event was to promote the Android technology and its open-source nature, along with creating awareness that’d help potential developers get a push into the field. The jury for the same was sponsored by Google itself Mr. Imran Khan who is the Android Development Lead @ Trigma in Chandigarh who ensured that all the participants should have a learning experience along with a real feel of how to develop and deploy apps. Around 12 teams participated in this event and 7 won free Google Play Store Accounts. This event was also featured as a success story in the GSA Newsletter.
Digital Marketing 101- It was an event centred on Google Adwords, blogging and social media marketing. With the ongoing boom of the same, Google Students Club, Chitkara University, Punjab campus organized an interactive session-cum workshop which had its aim as making the participants aware of what Google AdWords and Social Media Marketing is the factors that make it so along with Blogging and how generation of revenue is possible through the same.
Tech-Talk on Cloud Computing: We got the privilege to organize an interactive session on ‘Cloud Computing’. The seminar had its focus on various aspects of cloud computing including service models, app engine and cloud architecture. The seminar was delivered by Rohit Gupta,an alumni of Chitkara University, who is now a Google Associate. The event concluded successfully and was well attended by a few other GSAs from the region, as well as some students from their respective institutes and their teams as well.
We have a lot of events lined up for the rest of the year including SEO Workshop and Google AdClass.
I would like to thank Ms. Meenu Khurana (Deputy Dean-Department of Computer Science) and Ms. Ravneet Kaur (Faculty In charge) for the continuous support.
Thank You,
Mehul Sharma
Google Student Ambassador,
Chitkara University, Punjab.”
Google Students Club, Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh
The GSC of Chitkara University, HP has indulged into various activities since its inception a year back. Starting from the first seminar, giving insights to the students about the various Google products and services, key focus being:
- Gmail
- Google Drive and the Google cloud platform (App Engine and other services)
- AdSense and AdWords (Creating revenue online)
- The Android environment (Basic application building and a know-how of the android apks and SDK)
This Program runs under the Chitkara School of Engineering and Technology, headed by:
Mr. Rajnish Sharma (Dean Academics)
rajnish.sharma@chitkarauniversity.edu.in
Under the mentorship and faculty in charge:
Mr. Girish Rao
girish.rao@chitkarauniversity@edu.in
Google Student Ambassador
Vaibhav Rakheja (Google Student Ambassador)
vaibhavrakheja11@gmail.com
GSC-CU Himachal Pradesh Team Members list is available here.
Photographs of the Introductory Seminar are available here.
Photographs of the Digital Marketing Seminar are available here.
