Build With AI: How Reskilll and Google Cloud Are Bringing AI Education to 50+ Campuses

What happens when India’s largest hackathon platform partners with Google Cloud to bring hands-on AI education directly to college campuses? You get Build With AI — a campus bootcamp series that’s already reaching 50+ colleges and turning students into AI builders.

If you’ve been hearing about Gemini, Google AI Studio, and agentic AI but haven’t had a chance to actually build with AI using these tools, this is your entry point. And if you’re a college looking to bring cutting-edge AI workshops to your campus, this is the program to join.

What Is Build With AI?

Build With AI is a campus bootcamp series by Reskilll in collaboration with Google Cloud. It’s India’s largest AI learning initiative, designed as a hands-on program where students don’t just learn about AI — they build with AI from day one.

The program covers the full stack of Google’s AI tools:

• Gemini API — Google’s most capable AI model, and how to integrate it into real applications
• Google AI Studio — the fastest way to prototype with Gemini, right in your browser
• AI Agents — building autonomous agents that can reason, plan, and take actions
• Google Cloud Platform — deploying AI applications to production at scale

Each bootcamp is a hands-on workshop led by Google experts and experienced mentors from Reskilll’s network of 1,389+ mentors through MentorVerse.

Why Campus AI Bootcamps Matter in 2026

Most AI education today falls into two extremes: university courses that are too theoretical (you study neural network math but never call an API) or online tutorials that are too shallow (you follow along but never build anything real).

Build With AI fills the gap by being:

• Hands-on from minute one — students write code, call APIs, and build working prototypes during the session itself
• Accessible to beginners — you don’t need a PhD in machine learning or prior AI experience to participate
• Industry-relevant — the tools taught (Gemini, Google Cloud) are what companies actually use in production
• Community-driven — students connect with peers, mentors, and the broader developer community
• Free — no registration fees, making it accessible to students from all backgrounds

According to Google’s AI education initiative, hands-on experience with real AI tools is the fastest path from learning to building. The Build With AI bootcamp series puts this philosophy into practice at scale.

How the Build With AI Bootcamp Works

For Colleges

Any college in India can apply to host a Build With AI bootcamp. Reskilll handles the heavy lifting — speaker coordination, registration management, content delivery, and post-event certificates. The college provides the venue and promotes the event to their students.

With Reskilll’s platform handling registrations (the same system that has managed 92,403 team registrations across 196 hackathons), colleges don’t need to worry about spreadsheets, manual tracking, or technical setup.

The process is straightforward:

1. College applies through the Build With AI portal
2. Reskilll coordinates with Google Cloud for speakers and content
3. Registration page goes live on Reskilll’s platform
4. Bootcamp happens on campus with hands-on workshops
5. Certificates and swag distributed to participants

For Students

Students register through the Build With AI portal and attend the bootcamp at their campus. A typical bootcamp day covers:

1. Introduction to Generative AI (30 min) — what it is, how it works, why it matters for your career
2. Getting Started with Google AI Studio (45 min) — setting up your workspace, creating prompts, understanding model capabilities and limitations
3. Building with Gemini API (90 min) — hands-on coding session integrating AI into a real application
4. AI Agents Workshop (60 min) — designing agents that can reason, use tools, and take autonomous actions
5. Deployment to Google Cloud (45 min) — taking your project from local prototype to production deployment
6. Project Showcase (30 min) — teams present what they built, peer feedback, and mentor reviews

For Mentors

Experienced developers and AI practitioners can join as mentors through MentorVerse. Mentors guide students during workshops, review projects, answer technical questions, and provide career advice. It’s a way to give back to the community while building your own mentoring portfolio and professional network.

What Students Get from Build With AI

• Verified certificates — completion certificates from the Build With AI program, recognized by employers
• Exclusive Google swag — Google and Reskilll branded merchandise
• Global community access — join a network of AI builders across 50+ campuses in India
• Portfolio projects — real AI projects built with Gemini that you can showcase to recruiters
• Mentor connections — direct access to industry professionals through MentorVerse
• Cloud credits — Google Cloud credits to continue building after the bootcamp

Vibe Coding with Google AI

One of the most exciting aspects of Build With AI is the emphasis on what the developer community calls “vibe coding” — the practice of building applications by describing what you want in natural language and letting AI help you write the code.

This isn’t about replacing programming skills. It’s about augmenting them. With tools like Gemini and Google AI Studio, students learn to:

• Describe features in plain English and get working code that they can understand and modify
• Debug errors conversationally — explain what went wrong and get targeted fixes
• Prototype at speed — go from idea to working demo in minutes instead of days
• Focus on creativity — spend time on problem-solving and design rather than syntax
• Learn by building — understand code patterns by seeing AI-generated examples in context

This approach is particularly powerful for students who are new to programming. Instead of spending weeks learning syntax before building anything useful, they can start creating meaningful applications from day one and learn the underlying concepts through practice.

As Google’s Gemini team has noted, the goal is to make AI a collaborative tool that amplifies human creativity rather than replacing it.

The Bigger Picture: Creating AI-Native Developers

Build With AI isn’t just about teaching a specific tool or API. It’s about creating a generation of AI-native developers — people who think about AI as a fundamental building block of every application, not an add-on feature bolted on at the end.

Students who go through this program learn to:

• Evaluate when AI is the right solution — and when traditional programming is better
• Design AI-first applications — with AI capabilities built in from the architecture level
• Work with multiple AI models — understanding the strengths and limitations of different models
• Deploy AI responsibly — considering bias, safety, privacy, and cost at scale
• Stay current — the AI landscape changes monthly, and these students learn how to learn

This is exactly the skill set that companies are actively hiring for in 2026. And by bringing it directly to campuses across India, Build With AI ensures students don’t have to wait until after graduation to develop these capabilities.

Success Stories from the Bootcamp Series

The Build With AI bootcamps have already produced impressive results across campuses:

• Students at a Chennai campus built a working multilingual chatbot using Gemini API in under 2 hours during a bootcamp session
• A team from a Pune college created an AI-powered study assistant that generates practice questions from lecture notes
• Multiple bootcamp participants have gone on to win prizes at subsequent hackathons on Reskilll, applying the skills they learned

These aren’t just workshop exercises — they’re real projects that students continue developing after the bootcamp ends.

How Build With AI Connects to the Hackathon Ecosystem

The bootcamp series is designed to feed into Reskilll’s broader hackathon ecosystem. Students who attend a Build With AI bootcamp often go on to:

• Participate in AI hackathons like the Agentic India series (2,200+ teams across 3 editions)
• Join the AI for All Challenge (1,407 teams building open-source AI solutions)
• Compete in company-sponsored hackathons on the Reskilll platform
• Become mentors themselves through MentorVerse

This creates a virtuous cycle: bootcamps create skilled builders, hackathons give them a stage to showcase their skills, and the best participants become mentors for the next generation.

How to Get Involved

Whether you’re a student, college administrator, or potential mentor, there’s a role for you in Build With AI:

• Students: Visit buildwithai.reskilll.com to register for upcoming bootcamps at your campus or nearby
• Colleges: Apply to host a bootcamp — Reskilll handles logistics, you provide the venue and students
• Mentors: Join MentorVerse and sign up to mentor at Build With AI events
• Companies: Partner with Reskilll to sponsor bootcamps and connect with emerging AI talent early

The AI revolution isn’t coming — it’s here. And the best way to be part of it is to start building. Join Build With AI today →