Education is a wide topic that goes beyond classroom interactions. This is where mentorship comes in as another way of training students imparting them with the practical knowledge.
Nowadays well known IT companies have started Mentorship programmes apart from coding competitions and Hackathons to ignite the young minds and give them ample opportunities.
The motive of students being mentored in such programs is to connect them with experts who are skilled and knowledgeable in software programming and also to help them land up with internship opportunities.
This year students of Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, Ishika Saha from B.Tech- IT 2024 Batch, Sayani Nandi, B. Tech CSE Batch 2024 and Ayesha Solanki, B.Tech- CSE 2024 Batch got selected for Microsoft Engage Mentorship Programme 2022.
Student engagement and mentorship program by Microsoft offers 1:1 mentorship to shortlisted students while working on a project, learning sessions specially curated for them and also a sneak peek into Microsoft’s culture and values.
“This gives me the right opportunity to hone my skills and prepare myself for the industry, ” said Ishika.
Recently Rituparna Padira from the same college secured a Global Rank # 28 in TCS codevita season-10 Round- 2 . She will be appearing for the Grand Finale on 14th May 2022.
Subham Raj from Heritage Institute of Technology had made to the Grand Finale at Hackwithinfy 2022 in this month.