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How a 90-Minute Tech Club Session Kept 60 Students Engaged at VSICS

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GenAI engineer Pranjul Rathour conducted an AI mentorship session at VSICS in Kanpur in April 2025, designing a structured 90-minute format that sustained student attention throughout. The session opened with a relatable real-world problem rather than a traditional agenda, followed by live coding with deliberate mistakes, a hands-on task, and peer show-and-tell before any slides were shown. Slides were reserved for the final stretch, used only to provide context and point students toward next steps. Rathour emphasizes practical logistics — tested Wi-Fi, readable fonts, pre-shared code documents, and capped group sizes of 60–80 — as equally critical to session success as the content itself. He has published a full checklist for tech clubs and coordinators looking to replicate or adapt this format for campus events.

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