A student receiving the participation certificate.
Doha: Qatar University’s Computing Club (QUCC) conducted a first-of-its-kind Summer Bootcamp, in collaboration with Store974, aimed at enhancing the skills of the participants and giving them a hands-on experience. The boot camp ran from June 18 to July 9.
The boot camp offered three tracks for participants including AI and Data Science, Web and App development, and Robotics. These tracks were offered based on the growing potential of these fields in the industry.
Participants consisted of teams of three to four members each, who competed against other teams over the course of three weeks. The teams worked on projects of their choosing and were mentored by industry-experienced engineers as well as students who guided them in their projects in addition to having workshops in their respective tracks. The teams also presented their projects during progress meetings which were conducted weekly, wherein they also received feedback from their mentors.
Throughout the boot camp there was an active leadership board with rankings based on numerous factors such as presentation, features, efficiency of their projects. Based on these criteria, the winners of the boot camp were awarded with prizes during the closing ceremony from Store974.
Maab Esam, a participant said the boot camp was a unique, eye-opening experience that broadens my horizons on the unlimited cool stuff that I can learn from the Internet.
During the closing ceremony, President of QUCC, Sara Metwaly, commented, “This boot camp was one of the greatest projects our management team had worked on, and on receiving amazing feedback from the students we worked harder to make sure it goes on smoothly. This success and accomplishment are the result of the hard work and dedication of our management team out there and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their efforts.”
