The Social Innovation for Youth aims students to learn emerging technologies and work on their start-up ideas to build an MVP by the end of the program. The program offers opportunities for students to experience the journey of idea to product development and testing stages with support and guidance from in-house mentors and industry experts.
building electronic prototypes. Familiarity with IoT tech -Wi-Fi, BLE, LoRa, GSM
Hardware System Design, Firmware, PCB Design, RF Design, CAM, CAD, DFM
Communication systems and protocols - SPI, I2C, USART etc
Deep understanding of Networking, OSI model, TCP/IP stack
Maker and innovator at heart with a passion to help other makers/innovators
Generalist, quick learner, abreast with latest trends in technology
Strong communication skills visible in writing, conversation and presentations
Traits: Motivator and facilitator, curious, self-driven, empathetic, flexible, high integrity, cross-functional organizational ability
Supports and mentors student community across a network of virtual makerspaces, through video conferences, online forums
Facilitates the creativity of student participants by demonstrating a genuine interest in their ideas, helps them define a minimum viable prototype and helps them build the MVP as a hands-on mentor
Mentors participants in the program for presentation in the demo day
Maintains constant contact with makerspace managers across India to understand operational/technical challenges and works with them to resolve
Evaluate feasibility and quality of the teams at various stages in the program and evaluate and approve prototyping expenses for the teams
Identify key industry experts for deep-dive workshops to be conducted & coordinate the workshops, webinars, hackathons, & other events along with Maker Managers
Collate best practices in makerspace operations and innovations in various thingQbator makerspaces and disseminate them across the community
Inspires program participants by building maker projects in new and emerging areas and sharing the experience over the thingQbator
Research to identify new and emerging technology areas for the makerspace
Work as a team member to support and further the goals of the department
Salary as per experience and organizations norms
Fixed-term contract until March 2025, extendable depending on the performance of the individual and renewal of the program
You are looking for a challenging assignment and the above profile sounds like you, please send your resume at [email protected] with subject line ‘Application for Technical Coach (Hardware) – Social Innovations for Youth’.
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