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A year of student community events: a calendar template for tech clubs

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Clubs die between events. The ones that last publish a calendar and put names on it, so a missed week is a known gap and not the beginning of the end. This is the yearly shape TechVerse Enclave settled into, adapted for an academic year that starts in July or August.

Quarter 1: recruit and orient (Aug–Oct)

  • Induction session for first-years with a practitioner speaker — see planning an induction seminar.
  • Two beginner build sessions: a page, a form, a deploy.
  • First project demo day at the end of the quarter: everyone shows something, however small.
  • One external hackathon entered as club teams.

Quarter 2: build depth (Nov–Jan)

  • A one-day GenAI workshop with a visiting practitioner.
  • Weekly office hours; see office hours for students.
  • An internal mini-hackathon over one weekend, judged with a published rubric.
  • A quiet fortnight around exams, announced in advance.

Quarter 3: compete and show (Feb–Apr)

  • The college's own hackathon or fest, organised with the organiser's guide.
  • Two external hackathons — the season when many institutes run theirs.
  • Portfolio and mock-interview clinic for pre-final years.

Quarter 4: hand over (May–Jul)

  • Leadership transition with written ownership of each track.
  • A summer build challenge with remote check-ins.
  • Planning the next year's calendar and speaker outreach, eight weeks before inductions.

Who owns what

Each track — AI, web, security, data, startups, operations — has one named owner responsible for its sessions. Owners change yearly; the calendar does not. That continuity is what let a college group become a 500+ member community.

Clubs that want a practitioner slotted into this calendar — an induction talk, a workshop, a judge for the internal hackathon — can plan the year with me through the invite page.

About Pranjul Rathour

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At VSICS, Kanpur

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At an Integral Startup Foundation hackathon

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In a packed college auditorium

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At a formal campus event

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Pranjul Rathour

Pranjul Rathour is a GenAI engineer from Kanpur, India, and CTO at SCULT INDIA, currently shipping production RAG,
fine-tuning and agentic AI systems, mentoring 200+ students through TechVerse Enclave, and judging and speaking at
student hackathons across India. Updated 2026-09-07.

Reach out if you want to talk GenAI, book a campus session, or invite him to judge:

Pranjul Rathour · GenAI engineer, 3x hackathon winner, campus mentor. Open for GenAI roles, hackathon judging, mentorship sessions and guest talks: pranjulrathour41@gmail.com · Invite me to your campus
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