As the world moves closer to technology, there is an increasing demand for talent in the technological industry.
Google Developers Student Club is a platform that offers students the enabling environment to advance their career with Technology.
What we do at DSC is phenomenal and empowering, using a community based model, we’ve created a peer-to-peer environment where people can learn flexibly and share their experience on difference aspects of technology.
DSCs give students the opportunity and resources to learn about a range of technical topics by organizing:
Hands-on workshops.
Events
Talks
Project-building activities — both online and in-person.
Since we have different Developers and Engineers coming together to share their experiences at DSC FUO (Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State), it becomes of vital importance to make sure that developers get the right experiences and information shared with them.
The DSC FUO Campus Zones Initiative
The initiative of grouping the entire 30+ Departments of the University into smaller divisions of similar interests in terms of technological domains was brought by our lead Ndukwe Armstrong. To ensure that each student in the community gets the right resources and experience to apply modern day tech in a way that fits into their course of studies, lead to the creation of what is called the DSC Campus Zones.
Campus Zones are subsets of DSC FUO, having leaders or student community mentors referred to as Developer Advocates.
Each Developer Advocate is a teacher or mentor who shares experience, coordinates and teaches members of his/her zone on how they can apply or use different technologies to solve practical or real world problems.
In short, what a Developer Advocate does is that he/she takes a technology and explains it practically to his/her Campus Zone in a way that it relates to their domain of study.
In description, a Developer Advocate for DSC Data (which is a zone for students studying computational courses like mathematics and statistics) can organize a mini-workshop where he/she can talk about “how artificial intelligence programs can be empowered with more data using mathematical models.”
In essence, the duty of a Developer Advocates is to organize mini-workshops for his/her Campus Zone with the sole aim of driving technology into their respective domain of studies.
Currently, there are four(4) active DSC Campus Zones on campus -
DSC FinX: for students in the field of Banking, Finance, Economics and Business Administration.
DSC Space: for students in the field of Engineering, Electronics, Physics etc.
DSC Data: for students in the field of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics etc.
DSC Life: for students in the field of Medical sciences, Chemistry, Biology, Microbiology, Biochemistry etc.
Having Campus Zones and Developer Advocates facilitates strategic learning and helps to bring technology down to the students, relating these technologies to what they are currently studying or to thier personal projects/group projects.
For those new to technology and would want to kickstart their journey, DSC Campus Zones are a great place to start. One of the unique solutions that DSC Campus Zones offer is the continual organization of events such as workshops and seminars which generally enhance the experience of different developers in its communities.
For each zone, two (2) or more workshops are to be held per week.
Venues, time and dates are regularly announced by the Developer Advocates or posted on the DSC FUO Official Website or any other community platforms where DCS members reside.
To become a Developer Advocate in any of the Campus Zones, a student is required to first of all join DSC FUO and then fill this form.
Although Developer Advocates are appointed, there will be room for other students to also mentor and share their experiences with the community.
If this is your first time hearing about Developers Student Club (DSC), it is a community based platform that organizes programmes and workshops for students interested in Technology to grow and advance their skills.
These programs are dedicated to helping students from any undergraduate or graduate programs to learn programming among their peers, in a fun featured interactive setting.
By joining a DSC, students grow their knowledge in a peer-to-peer learning environment, which generally promotes collaboration and encourages feedback-based learning.
The team spirit that is promoted by the structure of the community is one of the most exciting things about DSCs. Giving students room to form teams that build solutions for local businesses and their community, DSCs have produced developers who are pushing the society forward using technology.
Joining a DSC allows you to meet other students that are interested in Technology at your university, these students are from diverse backgrounds and different majors.
There are over 45,000 Developers that are part of DSCs globally, you too can be part of the community.
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Written by WISDOM OVIEMUNO and OGBONNA PATRICK from the DSC Content Developers Core Team.
