Applications open · 2026 cohort
Put your campus on India’s hackathon map.
Reskilll is India’s largest hackathon platform: 3,500 hackathons run, six million developers, 500 enterprise partners. An ambassador’s job is to bring all of that to exactly one college: yours.
You run the events, build the crowd, and get your department to back it. Everything you submit is verified against our own records before it earns a point, which is precisely why the certificate at the end means something.
- The position
- Campus Ambassador, Reskilll. One cohort, running through 2026.
- The commitment
- A few hours a week. Real events, not a badge on a profile.
- The decision
- Usually within 5 days of applying, either way.
Where the cohort is today
The map, so far.
177 ambassadors at 167 institutions across 84 cities. Every mark is a campus, sized by how many people are running Reskilll there.
- Agartala
- Airoli
- Ajmer
- Aligarh
- Amritsar
- Arakkunam
- Aurangabad
- Baran
- Belagavi
- Bengaluru
- Bhopal
- Bhuvanagiri
- and 72 more
30 cities are not on the drawing yet: Airoli, Bhuvanagiri, Chengalpattu, Chikmagaluru, Chikoddi, Chittoor, Davanagere, Dharmapuri, Gadag, Ghatkesar, Jhajjar, Kanchipuram, Kangeyam, Kovvada, Krishnankoil, Lonavala, Moinabad, Nagmangala, Narsapur, Nirmal, Pudukkottai, Sathupally, Sheohar, Tiruvallur, Unnao, Vangani, Vempalli, Vidisha, Vizianagaram, Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri. Everyone there is still counted here and listed in the index.
What you’d be representing
The platform behind the badge
Ambassadors do not build an audience out of nothing. They plug a campus into one that already exists.
The work
What you’ll actually do
Four responsibilities. None of them needs permission from anybody but your own campus.
Build and grow the Reskilll community at your campus
Support event outreach, registrations and community activities where required
Help promote and drive participation in Reskilll initiatives
Collaborate with industry partners and take ownership of initiatives
What you get
The perks
Every one of these is open from the day you are accepted. City Lead adds city-level coordination on top; it does not gate the basics.
Exclusive volunteering and internship opportunities with Reskilll and partner initiatives
Get mentioned, and a shoutout on the Reskilll Ambassador website and social media
Compete and climb the leaderboard for exclusive swag and credits by Reskilll
Certificates of appreciation and letters of recognition for performing ambassadors
Enjoy the cohort, with personalised technical and non-technical training
Two roles
The roles
Everyone starts as a Campus Ambassador the day they’re accepted: the Reskilll lead for their college. City Lead is by invitation, and coordinates the Campus Ambassadors in a city.
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Campus Ambassador
You're the Reskilll lead for your campus. Everything that happens there runs through you.
What it unlocks
- Official Reskilll Campus Ambassador certificate and digital ID
- Private ambassador community, a direct line to the Reskilll team
- Welcome swag drop
- Your referral code, and attribution on every registration it brings
- Early access to every Reskilll hackathon before public registration
- Event kit: banners, posters, and a stocked goodie box shipped to campus
- You run Reskilll at your college. There is nobody above you on campus
By invitation
City Lead
By invitationBy invitation. You coordinate the Campus Ambassadors in your city.
City Lead is granted by the Reskilll team, not unlocked by points. The invitation is the promotion, and it is how a city of Campus Ambassadors gets a coordinator.
What it unlocks
- Everything a Campus Ambassador has
- Coordinate every Campus Ambassador in your city
- Represent your city to the Reskilll programme team
- Co-own city-level Reskilll hackathons end to end
- Speaking slot at a Reskilll city event
- Letter of recommendation on Reskilll letterhead
- Direct referral into open roles at Reskilll and partner companies
Who can apply
Eligibility
We do not ask for a CGPA. You do not need to already run a club, and you do not need to have organised anything before. The first rung starts at zero points for exactly that reason.
- Currently enrolled
- Undergraduate, postgraduate or PhD, at an institution in India. Any discipline. This is not an engineering-only programme.
- Enrolled through the cohort
- You need to still be a student for the whole of the 2026 cohort. If you graduate midway, apply to the next one instead.
- A few hours a week
- Roughly one event a month, plus the work around it. It fits alongside coursework; it does not fit alongside nothing.
- A Reskilll account
- You sign in with it, and it is what ties every hackathon you run back to your own record.
Apply to onboard
How it goes
Applications are read in the order they arrive. Applying early is worth more than applying perfectly.
Apply
15 minutes
One form. Your college, your year, and a short answer on what you have organised before, or why you want to start.
Review
About a week
A person reads every application. You get a decision either way, and a waitlist is a real waitlist, not a soft no.
Onboarding call
30 minutes
You leave the call with your referral code, the event playbook, the kit you can request, and a date for a first event.
Cohort starts
Zero points
You are on the ladder at Campus Ambassador. The first submission that gets approved is the first one that moves you.
Straight answers
Questions
Anything not covered here, ask on the application form. It gets read.
Is it paid?
No. Campus Ambassador and City Lead are both volunteer roles and there is no budget attached to either. What sits behind them is real, though: kits shipped to campus, certification vouchers, mentorship from the Reskilll network, letters of recommendation, speaking and judging slots, and a shortlist for internships and open roles across Reskilll and its partners.
Do I need to already run a club?
No. Roughly half of every cohort has never organised anything larger than a study group. What we look for in the application is whether you can describe a specific thing you would run in your first month, at your specific college. Existing club experience helps; it is not a filter.
What if my college already has an ambassador?
Apply anyway. Large campuses run several: different departments, different hostels, different years, and there is more work than one person can do. If we think a second ambassador would only split the same audience, we will say so and either waitlist you for the next cohort or point you at a nearby campus with nobody on it.
How much time does this actually take?
A few hours in a normal week: putting up a post, answering questions in your batch group, lining up a room. Event weeks are heavier: a hackathon is genuinely a full weekend plus the fortnight of preparation before it. Most ambassadors run one event a month and coast between them.
Do I get a certificate?
Yes, from day one, alongside a digital ambassador ID. It is deliberately not the point. The things worth having sit alongside the work: a letter of recommendation on Reskilll letterhead, the internship shortlist across partner companies, and the fact that every event on your record was verified against our own registration data rather than self-reported.
What happens if I go inactive?
Nothing dramatic and nothing silent. Points you have already earned are not taken away. If you submit nothing for a full quarter, someone from the campus team messages you first to ask whether the semester got heavy or whether you would rather step back. Ambassadors who stop responding are moved to alumni at the end of the cohort, and the campus is opened up in the next intake.
Can I apply in my final year?
Only if you are still enrolled for the whole cohort. The programme is built around a campus you have access to, and it stops working the week you graduate. If your degree ends midway, apply to the next cohort, or ask us about the alumni and mentor track instead.
Who reviews what I submit, and how long does it take?
The Reskilll campus team, by hand, against the evidence you attach and against our own registration records where they apply. Most submissions are decided within a few working days. A rejection always comes with a reason, and you can resubmit once you have fixed it.
2026 cohort · applications open
Take the position.
One form, about ten minutes, and a decision usually inside 5 days. Bring the hackathon to your campus.
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