Developer Student Club which is a technical community that combines all the university students, and all the other students who learn, share ideas and come up with viable projects that are likely to solve day to day universe problems. The clubs are intended as a space for students to try out new ideas and collaborate to solve mobile and web development problems. The Club will be formally inducted. We the team of DSC-BIT are going to organize our Info-Session. Basically, this session will cover some topics like What is DSC ?, Its Activities, Types of DSC Events, Talk on Tech Communities, Career and Reality. Students will get a clear vision about a tech community, what are the benefits, how they will be helpful to solve their problems in tech field, they will get to know about different new technologies in day to day life and they will able to interact with a same minded group of people and many more.

1. Developer Student Clubs Overview
Erica Hanson
Developer Student Clubs, Global Lead
September 16, 2020

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3. Agenda
01. What is Developer Student Clubs?
02. Stories from DSC members around the world

4. Agenda
01. What is Developer Student Clubs?
02. Stories from DSC members around the world
03. Career tips (my personal thoughts)

5. What is Developer Student Clubs?
University based community groups for students interested in Google developer
technologies.
Students grow their knowledge in a peer-to-peer learning environment and build solutions that
solve local problems.

6. Learning through workshops + project building
Workshops Projects

7. DSC bridges the gap
between theory and practice
for student developers.

8. DSC started in India in 2017...
As a way to bridge the gap between theory and practice. We aimed to
provide students the resources and experiences to be more industry
ready.

9. Then expanded to Indonesia and
Sub-Saharan Africa...
SSAIndonesia

10. You are part of a global community!
There are over 1,228+ DSC communities around the world!

11. Our goal is to create impact.
Impact students and empower them to impact
their communities through technology.

12. Agenda
01. What is Developer Student Clubs?
02. Stories from DSC members around the world
03. Career tips (my personal thoughts)

13. DSC Members have built their
first apps & supported each
other
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14. Meet Hastu.
Hastu was part of a DSC in Indonesia.
She decided to join a DSC workshop to
learn more about Android.

15. She attended a
workshop led by DSC
Lead, Tesya.

16. Tesya mentored
Hastu during her
Android journey.

17. Hastu joined a
project team.

18. Hastu built her
first app to help
blind students.

19. Tesya shared
this story.

20. Hastu went to
Google I/O and
shared her
developer journey
with Sundar, CEO of
Google.

21. Hastu joined me on
stage at the GDG
Summit and shares
her story with over
500 people.

22. Meet Hastu, an
inspiring developer.

23. Tesya gave Hastu the
platform to grow as a
developer.
She cared.

24. The community
cared.

25. DSC Members have become
active participants in their DSC
communities
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26. Empower Future Speakers

27. Journey from member to leader/speaker

28. DSC Members have built
projects together
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30. Solution Challenge
An annual contest that invites students from DSC communities to
develop solutions for local community problems using one or more
Google products or platforms.

31. 10 winning teams around the world

32. DSC Summit Europe 2020
[TensorFlow] FreeSpeak - Germany
FreeSpeak is a software that uses Machine Learning (TensorFlow) and video/audio analyzing tools to analyze
presentations and give individual feedback and tips as a “virtual coach.”

33. DSC Summit Europe 2020
[Android/Firebase] Worthy Walk - Pakistan
Android app that provides its users a platform to achieve personal health goals by either walking, running, or cycling.
Through leaderboards they reward their users with discounts to local businesses. 500+ installed on Google Play
Store

35. Watch the replay: Solution Challenge Demo Day
10 winners demo their projects
Keynote speaker: Vint Cerf
goo.gle/solutionchallenge

37. DSC Leads & members have
shared their stories
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38. DSC Leads sharing their journeys

39. DSC Summit Europe 2020
We’d love to hear your stories!
goo.gle/CommunityStory

40. “The only limit to your impact is your
imagination and commitment.”
- Tony Robbins

41. Agenda
01. What is Developer Student Clubs?
02. Stories from DSC members around the world
03. Career tips (my personal thoughts)

42. Career Tips (my personal thoughts)
1. Leadership
2. Problem Solving
3. Technical expertise
4. Teamwork/collaboration
5. Networking

43. Resources
careers.google.com/students

44. Thank you!
linkedin.com/in/hansonerica/
twitter.com/EricaKHanson