To search for talent and to make its latest products available among students, Google has launched Google Student Ambassador Program.
This year, around 1,750 strong candidates from 200 educational institutions from across India have participated. They vied for the coveted Google Student Ambassador (GSA) title for the academic session 2013-14. Amidst strong competitors, two engineering students of LPU got selected after clearing aptitude test and an interview.
Sunil Rao, Google Country Head Outreach Programs, who invited both the students for the summit, informed, “In today’s fast-changing technology setting, programs that bridge gap between what is taught in colleges and what is sought by industry are important. Google facilitates one such partnership through its Google Student Ambassador (GSA) program where we partner with academia to promote the use of technology in everyday lives. GSAs are liaison between Google and the students’ university/college.”
The winners, KhageshwarIjardar and Bishal Sapkota (both from B.Tech Hons CSE program), attended the Google India Community Summit 2013 in Goa. This biggest summit was organized by the Google Country Outreach team. The summit brought together Google Business Group (GBG) Managers, Google Developer Group (GDG) Managers and Google Student Ambassadors (GSAs) from across India. All gathered for an intensive four-day training program on community management, best practice sharing and product knowledge. Being GSAs for one year, both the students will get opportunity to participate in various Google training sessions to be held in 2013-14. Presently, encouraged at the summit, both are working on the first project “Vanity URL to LPU on G+ Page”.
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