Being a campus ambassador is a great way to kickstart your career as it readies your profile for job competitiveness. Many new companies have started campus ambassador programs. Some big and successful companies have started their programs in multiple organizations and institutes. Campus ambassador’s basic role is to build industry relations with the college to identify the gap between the knowledge students’ have and required in industry. Some of the additional roles for a campus ambassador is to share new technologies with fellow college-mates and friends, marketing of products, promotion of new technologies, organizing and managing training and workshops. Some of the most popular programs for computer science students are:
1. Google Developer Groups
This is also a program managed by Google which is similar to the Developer Student Club but instead of operating only on the college or university level, Google Developer Groups operate citywide. Google Developer Groups works on the idea to connect developers with an interest in similar technology, provide them with resources and mentorship to work on Google Developers Technologies. It plays a very crucial role in providing a ground on which beginners or junior developers can interact with senior and more experienced people from the industry, which helps them understand the technology better, open new opportunities, and accelerate their careers in the desired direction.
2.HackerRank Student Ambassador
HackerRank is a phenomenal website for sharing computer science projects and also learn programming. It also provides a great platform for computer science coding competitions and hackathons. HackerRank is one of the largest developer communities in the world. By becoming a hackerRank campus ambassador, you can organize events like contests on hackerRank, develop administration and communication skills.
3. HackerEarth Student Ambassador
HackerEarth provides the opportunity for students to spread the HackerEarth platform amongst the college students. It is a great university program that helps students to instill leadership qualities in them. By becoming a HackerEarth campus ambassador you can create and run an active programming club in the campus, which caters to build a strong programming community. You are able to communicate and share resources and source codes with other ambassadors around the globe. You can also get a letter of recommendation from the HackerEarth team.
4. Microsoft Student Partner
Microsoft Student Partner program is the campus ambassador program by Microsoft Corporation. It enables the student to become the ‘tech Guru’ of their school/college. It provides the student with additional access to the latest Microsoft technologies. You can mentor or lead a seminar at your college. In this program, you will learn and spread new technologies among your peers. To get selected you will need to get through a number of steps that may include creating a project or even a coding competition using Microsoft tools.
5. Github Campus Experts
Github is a fine way to showcase and engrave your work in the field of computer science. Being a Github Campus Expert comes with plenty of benefits like bloating the Github Swag, enhancing communication skills, getting mentorships etc. Some of the roles of a campus expert are to improve the technology community, conduct workshops, and events. It serves as a platform to showcase the technological leadership at your college/university.
6. GeeksForGeeks Campus Ambassador
GeeksForGeeks.com is a great website to learn to write code as well as to learn new computer science topics. It has introduced its Campus Ambassador program. It enables students to become the face of GeeksforGeeks.org for their college. It is a wonderful opportunity to work with the GeeksForGeeks team and grow professionally by gaining experience. GeeksForGeeks certificates and Letter of recommendations can be directly added to your LinkedIn profile.
7. Developer Circle (Facebook)
This Developer Circle program is managed by Facebook. The real idea behind this program is so that students can connect with the local developers’ community that is in their city, work on some innovative projects, conduct webinars or workshops, work on their professional skills, and else. Each developer’s circle is provided with some local leaders whose main job is to guide their juniors, collaborate with them in some projects, supervise seminars and resources provides by Facebook. Here students get to learn and work on some amazing technologies such as Spark AR, Oculus, React Native, and Facebook Open Source. There are many other opportunities as well for the students who perform very well in the community, for instance, they can be awarded cash prizes or some premium course on Udacity related to software development.
8. Developer Student Clubs (Google)
Developer Student Club is a program supervised by Google. The main focus of the Developer Student Club is to help students bridge the gap between what is taught in college and how the work is done in the industry. Basically, they are aiming to make students ready for a professional career in the software development field. This program is mainly targeted at universities and colleges, here they have a group of undergraduate students who are keen on learning about Google Developers Technologies such as Android, Flutter, Firebase, Web, TensorFlow, Cloud, and else. Together these students work on many projects which aim to provide some help to local businesses and the community, conduct hackathons, webinars, and workshops related to new Google technologies.
9. Intel Student Ambassador Program
Intel Student Ambassador program focuses on providing leadership events to students from the college who are pursuing graduate or Ph.D. level studies in the field of HPC, data science, and artificial intelligence. As a part of this program, students are provident with many resources such as Intel’s oneAPI libraries (used to make high-speed data parcel APIs), training equipment, cloud services, and exclusive training from developers, to assist further research and development of products. As of now, the main focus of this program is to do research on artificial intelligence and its uses in the industry and education.
10. Major League Hacking
Another amazing community that students can be a part of is Major League Hacking, it is the community that is known for its wonderful events, hackathons, and internship opportunities all across the globe. This organization has some amazing resources for students such as Career and Internship opportunities, coding challenges, etc. Here students who are a part of this organization can get a lot of opportunities to learn from various events and hackathons and if someone wants to organize his own hackathons there are options available to that also. This year they have also started an open-source event called MLH Fellowship to provide students with an alternative to their internships.
11. AWS Educate (Amazon)
AWS Educate is a program which is backed by Amazon – it is very famous among students and professional communities. This program is available for students, educators, and employees, and the basic idea behind is to teach people about amazon cloud services and software development. Coming to the students’ part, here they are taught all the basic and medium level concepts of AWS services, they also receive training and mentorship for employment opportunities. This course features nicely-structured content and very well curated guideline and pathways for the student to help them achieve their goal of getting a job in the cloud computation field.
12. Student Ambassador By IBM
The Student Ambassador at IBM will have the opportunity to work closely with IBM technical experts, recruitment leaders, and marketing teams to raise IBM’s profile on campus and introduce IBM to students and student groups across the respective campus. However, it is still under development, the IBM Student Ambassadors program will be launching as part of the IBM Champions program which will offer the students to network and build professional relationships with IT services, mentored by IBMers and IBM champions and much more.
