AICTE, GUVI makes world record for holding online computer programme for maximum users
GUVI was started by a group of IIT Madras students as a YouTube channel. It was introduced as a two-sided platform, where students can learn to do programming and companies can come and recruit.
All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE) along with an incubated company of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras named ‘Guvi Geek Network’ have received recognition from the Guinness World Records for holding an online computer programme for a maximum number of users.
Guinness World Records presented a certificate to both AICTE and Guvi Geek Network. It read, “The most users to take an online computer programme lesson in 24 hours was achieved by Guvi Geek Network Private Limited and AICTE (both India) online from April 24 to 25”.
Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ congratulated AICTE and Guvi Geek Network as he said, “Congratulations to AICTE and Guvi Geek Network to get recognition from Guinness World Records for having the most users take an online computer programming lesson in 24 hours”.
GUVI was started by a group of IIT Madras students as a YouTube channel. It was introduced as a two-sided platform, where students can learn to do programming and companies can come and recruit.
GUVI has collaborated with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to upskill 10 lakh Indians in coding through a one-day free workshop. The event was conducted on April 24 - 25. It was designed for students as well as information technology (IT) and non-IT professionals. In fact, anyone in the age group of 8 to 80 years with an interest in coding is eligible. GUVI came up in 2014 and offers several courses via the IIT Madras Digital Skills Academy.
The workshop by industry experts was also organised to teach participants to develop face-recognition applications using Python. All the participants also gained free access to GUVI’s Python course.
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