AY2025–26
The strongest year in the chapter's history.
14 events · 929 new members · 2,000+ people through the door · rated Tier 1 by Google.
TheYearinNumbers
How many people joined, showed up, and built something with us this year.
Chapter members
People who showed up
New Members
First-Time Attendees
Their first ever GDG event.
Colleges Reached
Across 5 Indian states.
This year we ran 14 events, 929 people joined the chapter, and 2,000+ showed up.
From a full-day conference like TechKotha Episode 3 to month-long tracks like Cloud Study Jams and Debug Quest 2.0, there was something running almost every month. Google rated us a Tier 1 chapter.
The14-EventTrack
Every event we ran, in order, from September 2025 to May 2026.
Info Session AY 2025–26
Our opening session — what GDG is, what each domain does, and how to get involved.
Google Cloud Study Jam — Registration Session
Kickoff for Cloud Study Jams — how to sign up, get lab access, and claim your free Google Cloud credits.
Study Jams: All About Cloud
Cloud from scratch — what it actually is, and how to start building on it.
Online / HybridA study jam designed to help students learn, build, and innovate through hands-on development and guided learning. The event combines coding challenges, technical sessions, and collaborative study jams to empower participants to explore new technologies, enhance problem-solving skills, and transform ideas into impactful projects — bridging learning with real-world application.
WebVerse 1.0
A hands-on web workshop with Debopom Bannerjee (Senior SDE at Divvy) — how the internet works, and how to land an internship.
N308, RCCIITJoin us for an interactive and beginner-friendly workshop where you’ll learn how the internet works, build your own website, explore AI tools to enhance your workflow, and discover how to find and land tech internships.
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ShowcaseX Pre-Event
Everything you needed before the hackathon — the problem statements, the rules, and tips for building fast.
OnlineJoin us for the official ShowcaseX Pre-Event, organized by GDG on Campus RCCIIT and RCC TechZ. This online session introduces the key phases of the challenge — Design, Code, and Pitch — and helps participants prepare effectively for ShowcaseX.
Pre-DevFest Workshop (with GDG Kolkata)
A full day in Kolkata with two Google Developer Experts, on Gemini CLI, AI security, and Kubernetes.
Kolkata
ShowcaseX × TechSprint — Main Launch
Our winter hackathon kicked off with Hack2Skill, ACM RCCIIT and RCCTechz — 162 teams going from idea to working demo.
OnlineShowcaseX × TechSprint was a competitive, innovation-focused virtual event aimed at bringing together students and developers to design and present technology-driven solutions. The event emphasized practical problem-solving, technical depth, and effective communication through structured presentations and live demonstrations. Organized by Google Developer Group on Campus RCCIIT, RCCTechz, and ACM Student Chapter RCCIIT, powered by Hack2Skill. The event featured participation from over 500 individuals with 50 finalist teams competing for recognition.
See full eventHow Beginners Enter Open Source & Start Earning
How to make your first pull request — and how open source can actually pay, through GSoC and GSSoC.
ShowcaseX × TechSprint — Finals
The top 50 teams demoed live to judges from DevRelSquad, Keploy, and Microsoft.
ShowcaseX × TechSprint — Winners & Prizes
Prizes handed out. Team Async won overall, CivicLens took Best Use of Gemini.
OnlineThe official winner announcement session for ShowcaseX × TechSprint recognized top-performing teams for their technical execution, innovation, and presentation. Top-performing teams were celebrated for their outstanding contributions to the competitive innovation-focused event. This marked the successful conclusion of the event, honoring the dedication and creativity of all finalist teams from over 500 participants.
Solutions Challenge 2026 — Build With AI
What the Google Solution Challenge is, and how to build an entry with Gemini.
Solutions Challenge Ep.2 — Full-Stack Web Dev with Google Tools
Building a full web app end to end with Firebase, Cloud Run, and the Gemini API.
Debug Quest 2.0
A month-long bug hunt set in "Glitch City". For most people taking part, it was their first ever pull request.
OnlineDebug Quest 2.0 ran for three weeks across April and May 2026 as a story-driven debugging competition. Participants forked a live codebase, hunted down planted and genuine bugs, and shipped fixes as pull requests, learning Git, branches, and code review along the way. 91 issues were raised and 67 pull requests were merged, many of them by first-year students making their first open-source contribution. Organised end to end by Pragya Singh and Soyam Paul, with prizes handed out on stage at TechKotha Episode 3.
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TechKotha Episode 3
Our biggest day of the year — 200 people from 25+ colleges, four talks, one auditorium.
RCCIIT AuditoriumTech Kotha Episode 3 is a community meetup for developers and tech enthusiasts to connect with senior working professionals, ask questions, clear doubts, and learn from real industry experience. The session is focused on practical guidance, open discussion, and building confidence around the next steps in tech.
OurFourBiggestEvents
A closer look at the conference, the hackathon, and the two long tracks we built the year around.
TechKotha Episode 3
ACM Student Chapter RCCIIT, RCCTechz · Supported by Google (GDG Program)
Our third and biggest TechKotha yet — a full day of talks from working engineers and founders, with students from 25+ colleges in the room.
From the Floor
Growth Across 3 Editions
+47% growth over Episode 2, +67% over Episode 1Who Spoke
Rishiraj Acharya
Google Developer Expert (AI, Cloud, Kaggle)ML Engineer @ IntelliTek · Hugging Face Fellow · Organiser, TFUG Kolkata
Live demonstrated multimodal AI pipelines built with Gemini, showcasing natural-language automated video editing and smart home-inventory computer vision models.
Soumyaraj Bag
SWE I @ smallcase
Traced real-time payment transactions across distributed microservices, explaining the SAGA orchestration pattern, Layer 7 stateless routing, and idempotency guarantees.
Biswarup Banerjee
Senior SWE @ Panalyt.jp · ex-Mercor / Remote.com
Actionable blueprints on transitioning from tutorial consumer to high-conviction product builder who ships production software.
Sathya Lakshmi Srinivasan
Founder & CEO, Quorum Chain (Chennai)
Travelled from Chennai to share tactical insights on early validation, zero-budget team building, and finding product-market fit during college.
Additional Milestones
Pre-DevFest Workshop
A full day with GDG Kolkata on generative AI, cloud, and Gemini CLI.
WebVerse 1.0
Web basics, AI dev tools, and how to actually get a tech internship.
Info Session AY 2025–26
Our opening session, with the roadmap for every domain: Web, App, AI, Web3, Cyber, CP/DSA, PR and Design.
How Beginners Enter Open Source
How to get into open source, and the routes to GSoC and GSSoC.
Solutions Challenge 2026 Series
Two workshops on building a Solution Challenge project with Gemini and Google Cloud.
WhereOurMembersEndedUp
Over 90% of the members we asked turned their year here into a hackathon win, an internship, or a national final. Tap anyone to read their story.
From our end-of-year survey
Every member we surveyed
Hackathons, internships & finals
Out of everyone surveyed
What Members Say They Picked Up
What Our Members Won This Year
I like to code :). Sometimes maybe Frontend, Sometimes maybe Backend, Sometimes AI and Cloud
Rajarshi Mondal
AI/ML Domain Lead at GDG on Campus RCCIIT, running 8+ events for 3,000+ students, and Chairman of the ACM Student Chapter RCCIIT, where another 10+ events reached a further 3,000+ students. Grand Finalist at Smart India Hackathon 2025 at IIT Roorkee, from a field of over 1,40,000 teams. Winner of the ACM UG Project Contest 2025 (East India) with BrainBoost, which went on to receive a Government of India copyright, and winner of the Axicov Track at Hackspire 2025 with GitPulse. Ex DS/ML Intern at WEBEL Centre of Excellence, Government of West Bengal.
Debayudh Basu
DSML / AI Engineer Intern at Webel (West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation) since Mar 2025, where he built a production RAG system over 326+ government service documents reaching 5,000+ Bangla Sahayata Kendra centres — semantic chunking, ChromaDB embeddings, response citation and AI guardrails — plus a Bengali fine-tuning set for a locally hosted Ollama LLM. MERN & Web3 Intern at Stellar Code (Oct 2025 – Jan 2026), migrating 3,584 users from v1 to v2 with no break in existing behaviour and shipping a multi-tier ERC-721 referral tree synced on-chain to PostgreSQL alongside a Uniswap v4 protocol-fee hook. Spearheads Web3 and GenAI workshops, architecture sessions, and hackathon teams for the chapter.
Arnab Mondal
Software engineer building high-throughput multimodal AI systems, vector RAG engines, autonomous browser agents with WebMCP, and scalable distributed backends.
Debdyuti Mondal
National Finalist (Top 10) in the Google Gen AI Exchange Hackathon (Dec 2025). National Finalist at Smart India Hackathon 2025 Hardware Edition (SohojPaat). Led AI/ML workshops and mentorship tracks throughout the academic year.
Prachi Ghosh
Graphics Coordinator for the chapter, bringing ideas to life with colour, creativity and flair across the event branding this year. National Finalist at Smart India Hackathon 2025 and currently interning at NESAC.
Rajarshi Das
Fullstack Developer Intern at Allotrope Systems. Graphics Coordinator for the chapter, transforming ideas into visuals that speak louder than words across the AY 2025–26 event branding. National Grand Finalist at Smart India Hackathon 2025 and part of the Axicov Track winning team at Hackspire 2025.
Tirtha Bhattacharya
Research Intern at Jadavpur University and a WBPDCL trainee across the BTPS and BKTPS plants. Graphics Coordinator for the chapter, shaping event branding and creatives across the AY 2025–26 series.
Smaranika Porel
Remote Sensing and GIS Intern at India Space Academy (May – Jul 2026), working with remote sensing, GIS and Python for geospatial data analysis. Produced drought severity maps from satellite data using the Vegetation Condition Index and urban heat island maps from land surface temperature, processing and visualising the imagery in Google Earth Engine. Leads the CP and DSA domain for the chapter.
Deepjyoti Dey
SDE Intern at GoAvo.ai. Led the PR and management domain for the chapter through AY 2025–26, turning tech events into vibes, not just slides.
Shirshika Ghosh
Orchestrated end-to-end PR, hospitality, and cross-college coordination for the Pre-DevFest Workshop (435 attendees) and TechKotha Episode 3 (200 attendees). Core organizer for Techtrix tech fest.
Aditi Ghosh
Web Development Intern @ Payzoll | SDE Intern @ GoAvo.ai | Tech Lead @ ACM | Tech Member @ SWC | Guest Speaker at WebVerse 1.0, where I spoke about web development, its future prospects, and guided juniors in building a fully functional website using AI.
Anindya Kanti Das
Passionate about app development, building modern, user-friendly applications with a focus on functionality, performance, and great user experience.
Debug Quest 2.0 co-organiser and technical lead. Winner (Axicov Track) Hackspire '25, Best All-Girls Team & Top 5 / 273 teams Hello World Hacks 2025 (Path Pilot), 2nd Runner-Up ICEBERG HACKS Pro Edition, 2nd Runner-Up KGEC Binary Hackathon. Engineered the official GDG RCCIIT animated About page and Gemini-powered RAG chatbot.
Competitive CTF security researcher (TryHackMe, HackTheBox) as 0M4NU4L. 1st Runner-Up at ShowcaseX (Solo). Worked on technical security engagements with Google, RCCTechz, and Hello World Hacks.
Full-Stack & AI Engineer building and shipping AI-native products, with a focus on turning complex workflows into simple user experiences. Top 106 globally in Google Solution Challenge 2026 among 85,000+ participants. Winner, ACM India East/North-East UG Project Contest 2026 Grand Finale, Best Startup Track at Synchronicity 2.0 (JU), and Double Slash 4.0. I enjoy building agentic systems, AI-driven workflows, and products that move from prototype to production. Currently SDE Intern at ModelSuite.ai; ex-Frontend Developer Intern @Resourcio.
Sohom Roy
Product-minded Full-Stack & AI Engineer building practical AI products and turning complex workflows into simple experiences. Top 106 globally in Google Solution Challenge 2026 from 85,000+ participants. Winner at ACM India UG Project Contest 2026, BuildX’26 at IIT Kharagpur, Synchronicity 2.0, Double Slash 4.0, NextGenHacks, and Showcase X Techsprint. I enjoy building RAG systems, agentic workflows, and full-stack products that make it beyond the prototype. Currently exploring AI engineering and scalable systems.
Shriza Baidya
SDE Intern @ DYO Chef (Jan–May 2026, Kotlin Multiplatform). Smart India Hackathon 2025 Finalist. 1st Runner-Up Cold Code Cascade (KrishiLink IoT irrigation with LoRa) and 1st Runner-Up AI ProtoSprint. Built ArthaIQ AI finance dashboard and spearheaded campaigns for TechKotha Ep3.
Swagata Ganguly
Cloud Operations Intern @ Iron Mountain. 3rd at Tekathon 2026 (TIBIT), 3rd at ShowcaseX, Top 5 at AMD Ideathon, Finalist among 500+ applicants in ZYRO 2026, and open source contributor in GirlScript Summer of Code 2026.
Sanchali Saha
Winner, Best Use of Gemini at ShowcaseX for CivicLens (crowdsourced civic hazard reporting platform with Gemini vision). Designed signature brand aesthetics and promotional creatives for WebVerse and ShowcaseX.
Pearl Queen Ray
Internship @ Quantum Inventions. 1st Runner-Up at Hackspire FIEM 2025. Technical Team Member of Student Welfare Committee RCCIIT. Core contributor to the GDG website build and speaker at technical workshops.
Radheshyam Ghanta
Research Intern at NIT Durgapur. Maintained an unbroken 600+ day Problem-of-the-Day streak on GeeksforGeeks. Architected SkillLink and hands-on Arduino IoT hardware prototypes. Mentored students on algorithmic problem solving.
Soyam Paul
Co-organiser and co-speaker for Debug Quest 2.0, designing the "Glitch City" puzzle tracks. Core contributor to the official GDGC RCCIIT website build and speaker across multiple web-track events including TechKotha Ep3.
Kasturi Bhattacharya
Winner of the Axicov Track at Calcutta Hacks and of the Hult Prize India campus round, going on to reach the Hult Prize India national finals. Connecting people and crafting perception with purpose across the PR and management track.
InTheirWords
What event attendees said about the year, unedited.
“TechKotha is a place where technology, learning, and inspiring people come together to create meaningful connections.”
Debanjan Goswami
Attendee · TechKotha Ep3“A place where students, builders, and tech enthusiasts connect, learn, and grow together.”
Srimanta Roy
Attendee · TechKotha Ep3“TechKotha is a platform that inspires me to learn, grow, and connect with the tech community.”
Supriya Mondal
Attendee · TechKotha Ep3“The sessions were engaging, beginner-friendly, and gave practical insights about building, startups, ML, and system design. I especially enjoyed the interactive atmosphere and real-world experiences shared by the speakers.”
Srimanta Roy
Attendee · TechKotha Ep3“A great opportunity to meet tech experts and friends who really motivate us for future success. Keep it up and give us immense fun and inspiration.”
Susmita Biswas
Attendee · TechKotha Ep3“For me, it's a session of understanding various domains and applying technical elements to upgrade ourselves for a bright career.”
Rishav Roy
Attendee · TechKotha Ep3“In one place, many developers and creators meet, talk, gain knowledge — and real-life things too.”
Suvodeep Saha
Attendee · TechKotha Ep3“Learning and communication in a fun way.”
Aaloke Das
Attendee · TechKotha Ep3“Exploration, exploration, and exploration.”
Rupam Laha
Attendee · TechKotha Ep3“It was extremely interesting and I learnt a whole lot of new things in the process too! I did as much as I could in the first level but unfortunately I could not perform well on the second level since I was too slow to claim much errors, but hats off to the legends who did! I'm extremely happy for every one of the participants here and I wish to come back in 3.0.”
Participant
Participant · Debug Quest 2.0“It was a great experience for me as this was the first time I was working on a shared repo like that, and the first time I made a pull request — so yeah, I got to know some new things as well as how to find bugs efficiently and all.”
Participant
Participant · Debug Quest 2.0“It was definitely a great learning experience. It really threw us into the deep end, but in the best way possible. We got to wrap our heads around some serious git workflows and, let's be real, dealt with enough merge conflicts to last a lifetime. It was challenging, but definitely the kind of hands-on chaos we needed to actually level up.”
Kiktro
Participant · Debug Quest 2.0“It was a great learning experience for me. We worked on a forked GitHub repo where a UI was already given and our task was to find and fix bugs. I also managed to solve some of the bugs. Overall, I got to learn more about debugging and working on shared projects.”
Anonymous Participant
Participant · Debug Quest 2.0“It was a really great experience. I learnt so many things on the way, starting from learning the functions of GitHub to actually solving bugs. It was my first time participating in such an event — I have just finished school this year, and my only skillset was Python. So I learnt JavaScript on the way, and I'm not gonna lie, I also took help from Gemini to understand many things. It was learning and debugging for me — an extremely great experience which actually made me level up.”
Anonymous Participant
Participant · Debug Quest 2.0“Congratulations coderanger, sampurnasit, deathstar, mugan, and paul, and all the rest of the participants! We all enjoyed this almost one-month-long Debug Quest. And special thanks to Soyam da, Rishi da, and Pragya di for tolerating my constant disturbance.”
Anonymous Participant
Participant · Debug Quest 2.0Speakers&Partners
Nine speakers and judges came in this year, including three Google Developer Experts and engineers from smallcase, Keploy, and Panalyt.
Speakers & Judges
9 Industry LeadersRishiraj Acharya
GDEML Engineer @ IntelliTek · Hugging Face Fellow
Soumyaraj Bag
Software Engineer @ smallcase
Biswarup Banerjee
Senior SWE @ Panalyt.jp · ex-Mercor / Remote.com
Sathya Lakshmi Srinivasan
Founder & CEO @ Quorum Chain (Chennai)
Imran Roshan
GDEGoogle Developer Expert (AI / Cloud)
Rivu Chakraborty
GDEGoogle Developer Expert (Android / Cloud)
Debopom Bannerjee
Senior SDE @ Divvy
Swapnendu Banerjee
GSoC 2025 @ Keploy · Engineering @ DevRelSquad
Sagnik Dutta
Engineering @ DevRelSquad · Rise In Advocate
Sponsors & Partners
Google Developer Groups
Official GDG on Campus Program Support
Hack2Skill
ShowcaseX Hackathon Platform & Prize Partner
Miro
Visual Collaboration & Innovation Partner
Modisconto
Event Sponsor for TechKotha Episode 3
OSEN
In-Kind Hardware & Swag Sponsor
ACM Student Chapter RCCIIT
Co-Host for TechKotha & ShowcaseX
RCCTechz
Official College Tech Club Partner
Flutter Kolkata
Community Ecosystem Partner
GirlScript Summer of Code (GSSoC)
Open-Source Learning Partner
Quira
Developer Quest & Bounty Partner
Resourcio Community
Community Learning Partner
The30BehindtheYear
The 30 students who planned, built, and ran everything on this page.
Core Leadership (16)
Leads, coordinators & the Lead Organizer
Rishi Paul
Lead Organizer
Rivu Chattopadhyay
Web LeadAditi Ghosh
Web Co-LeadDebayudh Basu
Web3 and Blockchain LeadAnindya kanti Das
App LeadArnab Mondal
App Co-LeadRajarshi Mondal
AI-ML LeadDebdyuti Mondal
AI/ML Co-Lead
Koushani Maity
Cybersecurity LeadSmaranika Porel
CP and DSA Lead
Sambit Ganguly
CP & DSA Co-LeadDeepjyoti Dey
PR and Management LeadShirshika Ghosh
PR and Management Co-LeadTirtha Bhattacharya
Graphics CoordinatorRajarshi Das
Graphics CoordinatorPrachi Ghosh
Graphics CoordinatorDomain Associates & Subcore (14)
Web, App, AI/ML, Cyber, Web3, CP/DSA, PR & Design Associates
Ankur Bag
Web AssociateSoyam Paul
Web AssociateSwagata Ganguly
Web3 & Blockchain AssociateSohom Roy
App AssociatePearl Queen Ray
App Associate
Pragya Singh
AI-ML Associate
Swastik Hore
AI-ML Associate
Nirjhar Barma
CyberSecurity AssociateRADHESHYAM GHANTA
CP & DSA Associate
SAMPAD GORAI
CP & DSA AssociateShriza Baidya
PR and Management AssociateKasturi Bhattacharya
PR and Management AssociateSanchali Saha
Graphics Associate
Adrija Roy
Graphics AssociateWhereDoWeGoFromHere?
Three ways to be part of next year.
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Free and open to everyone, no application needed. Workshops, study jams, hackathons, and seniors you can ask when you are stuck.
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Applications for core and subcore roles in AY 2026–27. Run a domain, or an event of your own.
Partner With Us
Reach 3,000+ student developers across 25+ colleges. Sponsor a hackathon, give a talk, or hire from campus.
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