B.Tech · Year 1 · Weekend Program — Rev 2026–27
Don't just earn a degree.
Graduate with proof.
A year-long weekend program that takes 1st-year B.Tech students — any branch — from “undecided” to a public portfolio of real projects, AI fluency, and interview-ready confidence.
Why this program exists
Half of India's engineering graduates are unprepared for hiring. Not because jobs are gone — because hiring changed.
Companies now hire on proof-of-work — projects you've built, publicly visible, not just a CGPA line.
60–70%of fresher job descriptions now list AI skills — even in non-AI roles.
Resumes are screened by AI before a human ever reads them.
Meanwhile core branches are booming — semiconductors, EVs, embedded systems — but most colleges don't teach ECE, EEE, or ME students the path to it.
Your degree makes you eligible. Your proof-of-work gets you hired.
The build — 10 months, 20+ weekends
One year. Twenty-plus weekends. A portfolio that speaks before you do.
Sat = hands-on lab. Sun = career & communication studio. Every month ends with something you can link to.
- Phase 0 · Weekend 0
Kickoff
Honest data on how hiring actually works today, the program contract, and your dev setup — Python, VS Code, Git, GitHub. You leave with a personal "why" statement.
0 - Phase 1 · Months 1–4 · Everyone together
Foundations
Git & GitHub, Python by building real tools (not slides), pandas on your own state or district's open data, problem-solving and aptitude drills — then AI fluency: how LLMs actually work, prompt discipline, and building + deploying your own AI helper.
1 - Phase 1 · Month 5
Showcase 1
Technical writing, LinkedIn presence, and Resume v1 — then Demo Day #1: five-minute project demos, peer scoring, an industry guest. Track counseling assigns your semester-2 branch. Winter break: a 20-day build challenge or shadow an engineer.
2 - Phase 2 · Months 6–8
Branch tracks
Real projects in your own field, in mixed-branch teams. GD practice, mock HR questions, and aptitude drills continue every Sunday.
3 - Phase 2 · Month 9
Capstone sprint
Cross-branch teams build ONE substantial thing — hardware and software together, like a real engineering team — with weekly mentor reviews and a public GitHub + README standard.
4 - Phase 2 · Month 10
Launch
Portfolio polish, Resume v2 built for AI screening, mock interviews with external volunteers, GD rounds — then Demo Day #2 with faculty and industry guests, and your certificate, if you've earned it.
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Every week, all year: aptitude Q-of-the-week, English speaking circle, one industry-news discussion. Placement prep as a habit, not a final-month panic.
How we run it
We run this program the way companies run teams.
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Every month, one PUBLIC artifact. GitHub is your transcript — not a grade sheet nobody outside your college can read.
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Mixed-branch teams, always. CSE students learn hardware. ECE, EEE, and ME students learn to ship software.
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"AI writes, you review." Predict the output before you ask AI for it — we teach you to command AI, not depend on it.
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Certificate earned, not given. See the criteria below.
- ≥ 80% attendance across the year
- ≥ 3 shipped, public projects on GitHub
- 1 Demo Day presentation, in front of judges
Questions
Before you register.
1I'm from ME / EEE — is this just coding?
2I've never written code. Can I keep up?
3Will this affect academics?
4What do I actually get at the end?
Registration
Four years pass either way. Graduate with proof.
Register for the 2026–27 batch before seats close. Weekend commitment, year-long payoff.
Seats capped are limited for mentoring quality.