Google launches skilling programme for women engineering students

While most of her classmates are wondering how to kill time during the summer vacation, 20-year-old Vineetha (name changed) of VNR Engineering College, along with 108 others, is trying to understand the art of problem-solving at skilling start-up TalentSprint’s campus at Gachibowli near here.

Google has partnered with TalentSprint to launch the WE (Women Engineers) programme that will train 600 women engineering students so that they are ready for much bigger roles than the routine low-paying entry level jobs.

Most of the 109 students — from over 60 colleges in 20 cities across the country — selected for the first cohort of the Google-TalentSprint programme hail from families with an average annual income of ₹6 lakh.