The work culminated in a Build with AI felicitation ceremony: student recognition, mentor contributions, the GDG team and the people who helped turn a learning campaign into a campus-wide experience.

It also featured a session with Umapathy Girirajan, a cloud architect at PayPal, presented as a story of moving from student life into industry and returning to share that experience.

I was part of the leadership team responsible for making the program happen. The badges and recognition were useful, but the larger milestone was learning how to organize people around a technical goal.