How to apply for Developer Student Clubs Lead
What is Developer Student Clubs?
Developer student clubs are community groups of students interested in Google technologies. Students from all undergraduate or graduate programs with an interest in growing as a developer are welcome. By joining a DSC, students grow their knowledge in a peer-to-peer learning environment and build solutions for local businesses and their community.
Developer Student Clubs bridge the gap between theory and practical application for student developers.
DSC Lead :
Developer Student Clubs are university-based community groups that bring together students of a university to learn new technologies, develop projects for the betterment of society with the help of Google Developer technologies.
Role of a DSC lead
As a DSC lead, you are supposed to lead your community by helping every student of your club either by directly helping them or you can connect the students with someone who can solve their doubts.
There are various responsibilities of a DSC lead:
- Set up a Club or Grow your community: When you become a DSC lead, there are two cases, either your campus is already having a DSC or you need to set up the DSC at your campus. So, by taking permissions from the college authorities you need to set up a club at your campus(or continue the existing club) and then build a core team that will be helping you during the events that you will organize.
- Lead DSC events: Throughout the year, you will conduct a lot of activities at your campus such as regular sessions on some topics, cloud study jams, hackathons, codelabs, speaker sessions, etc. So, you need to lead these events, and don’t worry you will get resources for all of these events.
- Build projects: As a DSC lead, you along with your community members can build a project that will help some local organization or local business to scale up.
Being part of the DSC program, you will get an opportunity to:
How to lead a community: This will help you in developing leadership quality in you and this will help in your interview also because interviewers look for these qualities.
- Network growth: You will connect with all the DSC leads of your country as well as around the world. So, this will help you in growing your network and learn different things from the leads of a different mindset.
- Learn new technologies: As a part of DSC, you will come across various training of different technologies by the experts of Google. So, it is going to be a journey of learning.
- Attend DSC summit: And obviously, you will get a chance to attend the 3-day DSC summit where leads from the country come together to learn how to manage the community and will also participate in various tech talks. See the DSC India annual summit video from here.
Some of the prerequisites of becoming DSC leads are:
- Have a minimum of two years left until graduation
- Enrolled in an undergraduate program at a college or university
- Can commit to program for one year
- Passionate about creating impact in the community
- Strong technical understanding of computer programming and/or software engineering
- Have experience with event planning or leading a team
- Have some connection to the local developer community
- Host a meetup event ideally once a month, and at least every 3 months
When you are done with the prerequisite part, then you can apply for the DSC lead by:
See if there’s a current Developer Student Club on your campus or near you. Reach out and learn about their experience.
- Read the Community Organizer Code of Conduct.
- When the DSC Lead interest form is live, fill the form here.
- Your application will be reviewed and the team will get back to you as soon as possible via email.
- If your application form is selected, then you will go through some telephonic or video conferencing interview where they will ask you some questions based on your technical skills, they will ask you how to grow a community, how to organize events, etc.
- If you manage to clear the interview round, then you will receive a welcome mail from the DSC team and a full year of having lots and lots of wonderful experiences is waiting for you.
Note: Always look for the learning part of the community and not for the schwag or other items that you will be receiving for the events. Learning is the most important thing that will help you in growing your community.
Application procedure:
There will be an interest form open once a year. till then you can reach out to your nearby DSC and participate or you can also help to organize a meetup.
After your application has been shortlisted for the next and final round you will receive a mail and you have to pick a date and time for your video call interview.
References
All the above information is taken from the Google Developers website.
You can learn more about DSC clubs from here.
