📢 Kolaambi #5: Comeback is always better than Setback!
Newsletter with all things tech, people and communities from TinkerHub Foundation.
Hola 👋🏻👋🏼👋🏽👋🏾👋🏿
We are back after a well-rested hibernation - for good, really 😶🌫️ 🤞🏼
Time to celebrate? Yeah, we think so too 🎉🍾
Hereafter, we’ll be dropping by every month to < bless your feed> with some cool stuff around tech, people, and community.
But wait, here’s a quick recap of EVERYTHING that happened last year cuz we do not want you to miss out! ( 2021 April to 2022 March )
We saw some terrific growth in numbers 📈 from some very impactful programs in our last financial year. This is indeed huge for us. We started our journey on 2014 - just a bunch of do-gooders & now we’re a strong non-profit organization with 71 campus chapters and 12927 members.
In fact, we had to chuck Whatsapp/ Telegram and move to Discord to bring all our community members together.
We are also very proud of having conducted several initiatives exclusively for women this year. The pandemic period unleashed our creative side more which resulted in events that got largely complemented. More on this later!
It doesn’t stop here:
Last year we did a total of 550 events and our engagement grew to 44496 learners with 3919 projects developed.
The best part is that we brewed 43 career opportunities for our members with engagement from over 35 companies & also and bagged the highest CTC as 7.5LPA for one of our members.
We did notable engagements with partners including FOSS United, KSUM, I Lab, and E&Y.
We are now 3 full-time employees, 7 Fellows, and 34 interns to move TinkerHub forward.
Check out our Tinkerhub Impact (2021-2022) for more details. 👇👇👇👇👇👇
Major Happenings in the past weeks 🎉
Rural Agri Tech Hackathon | Kasaragod Jun 8, 2022
TinkerHub partnered with KSUM & KasaraCode for their AgriTech Hackathon from June 8 to 10. There were around 20 teams working on real agricultural issues identified by ICAR.
TinkerHub New Board | Jun 12, 2022
We are happy to announce our new board to the community. The new board brings a wide variety of experience to the Foundation, Including Startup Founders and leaders in the technology domain. Read more about them here
Onboarded new Intern Mafia| June 22, 2022
We onboarded 34 interns from 21+ campuses🏛 for 5 initiatives, of which more than 56% are women🦸🏻♀️.
Be Curious Leads Workshop | June 25, 2022
Last week we hosted Be Curious Workshop Extended, where all TinkerHub campus leads from 71 campus communities came together at KSUM. Here is a glimpse of what happened.
TinkerDay Thrissur | June 26, 2022
Here comes another highlight. we launched our first ever Tinker Day Thrissur at Inker Robotics with 60+ check-ins. Check out what our guest speaker Krishnanand has to say about the event.
On the same day we did conducted our learning stations at College of Engineering, Trivandrum, with 170+ learners and 7 stacks.
Getting Started with Side Projects | June 28, 2022
We are trying a new initiative this year, Indie Devs where we help young makers with side project ideas to mentor them in creating amazing side projects that could generate some revenue in the long run. We had our first guest speaker Yan Chummar who shared his experience in creating a number of side projects and bringing revenue.
Upcoming Events 📅
Elevate- an Hirehack initiative
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Blender study jam- a Learning team initiative
Blender- study jam is happening next week. Stay tuned to our social media handle for updates.
Saturday Hack Night
This week’s saturday hack night is happening on july 2nd. check out here for the problem statement and registration.
Before we wind up, we want to know more about what content would you want to see in the future editions?
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