Applications open · 2026 cohort
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.
What you’d be representing
Ambassadors do not build an audience out of nothing. They plug a campus into one that already exists.
The work
Four kinds of work, weighted deliberately unequally. Organising outranks posting, and partnerships outlast you.
The thing the programme is actually for.
Put a hackathon on your campus and get at least forty people into a room to build for a weekend. Between the big ones, run workshops — twenty-five people, one topic, hands on keyboards. This is the heaviest-weighted work on the ladder because it is the hardest and it is the part nobody else will do for you.
Turning a poster into a registration.
You get a referral code on day one, and every sign-up it brings is attributed to you and credited against our records. Alongside it, run short info sessions for your batch, your club, or the juniors who have never entered a hackathon and assume they would lose.
The cheapest points on the board, and we price them that way.
Write the recap of the event you ran. Post about a hackathon while registration is still open. It is useful and it is worth points, but it is worth a fraction of organising, because a ladder that pays the same for a LinkedIn post as for running a hackathon gets exactly the programme it deserves.
Making it survive after you graduate.
Get your department or T&P cell to formally back Reskilll events — an MoU, a signed letter, attendance recognition. Get the coding club or the IEEE chapter to co-host. This is what turns one motivated student into a campus that keeps running hackathons after you have left.
Four rungs
Everyone starts on the first rung the day they’re accepted. After that the only thing that moves you is verified work. Thresholds are cumulative across the cohort, and nothing expires mid-cohort.
0on acceptance
You're in. Your campus now has a name attached to it.
What it unlocks
250points
You've run something real. Now you get the budget to run more.
What it unlocks
750points
You're running the campus. We start opening doors.
What it unlocks
1,500points
By invitation. You run a city cohort, and you're paid to.
Reaching 1,500 points makes you eligible for Campus Lead. It does not promote you. Leads are chosen by the Reskilll team from the eligible pool once a city needs one, and the invitation is the promotion.
What it unlocks
The index
Every submission is reviewed by a human against the evidence you attach, and against our own registration records where we have them. Points land when the submission is approved, not when it is filed. Caps are per ambassador, per cohort.
| Index | Activity | Category | Points | Times | Ceiling |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Host a campus hackathonA Reskilll-branded hackathon at your college, minimum 40 participants. Checked against our own registration records.Evidence · Event page or registration report, plus photos | Events | 400 | ×4 | 1,600 |
| 02 | Run a workshop or build sessionA hands-on session on anything from the Reskilll track list — AI, cloud, web. Minimum 25 attendees.Evidence · Event page, attendance sheet, photos | Events | 150 | ×10 | 1,500 |
| 03 | Registrations from your referral codeSign-ups for any Reskilll hackathon attributed to your code. Submit the count; we credit what we can confirm.Evidence · A count we verify against our records | Outreach | 5per sign-up | No cap | — |
| 04 | Campus info sessionA short session introducing Reskilll and an upcoming hackathon to your batch or club.Evidence · Photos and an approximate headcount | Outreach | 60 | ×12 | 720 |
| 05 | Write an event recapA published write-up of a Reskilll event you ran or attended. Your own words, linking back to the event.Evidence · Link to the blog, article or newsletter | Content | 50 | ×15 | 750 |
| 06 | Social post about a live hackathonA public post on LinkedIn, X or Instagram promoting a hackathon while registration is open.Evidence · The post's own permalink | Content | 20 | ×25 | 500 |
| 07 | Faculty or department partnershipYour department or T&P cell formally backing Reskilll events — an MoU, a signed letter, or credit for participants.Evidence · The document, plus what was agreed | Partnerships | 300 | ×3 | 900 |
| 08 | Bring a club or chapter on boardAn existing campus club — coding club, IEEE or ACM chapter, GDG on Campus — co-hosting a Reskilll event.Evidence · The co-branded event page | Partnerships | 120 | ×6 | 720 |
For scale: one campus hackathon (400) plus one department partnership (300) clears Associate Ambassador outright and lands just short of Senior. Inflated or unverifiable submissions are rejected, and doing it repeatedly ends the ambassadorship.
Who can apply
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.
Apply to onboard
Applications are read in the order they arrive. Applying early is worth more than applying perfectly.
15 minutes
One form. Your college, your year, and a short answer on what you have organised before — or why you want to start.
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.
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.
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
Anything not covered here, ask on the application form. It gets read.
Not at the first three rungs. Campus Ambassador, Associate and Senior are unpaid positions with real support behind them — event budget, kits shipped to campus, certification vouchers, covered travel when you speak at a Reskilll city event. Campus Lead is the paid one: it carries a monthly stipend for the length of the cohort, and it is by invitation.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, from day one, alongside a digital ambassador ID. It is deliberately not the point. The things worth having are further up: the letter of recommendation on Reskilll letterhead at Senior, 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.
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.
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.
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
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