Intel Digital Readiness Program
Representing the TinyML project at Intel's Project Pragati student mentoring bootcamp: two days of mentorship on product thinking, impact, and going from idea to real-world solution.
I went to Intel's Bengaluru campus to represent our TinyML project, which was already enough of a milestone, and quickly found out the real test was not the code. Across two days, the mentors kept steering the conversation away from the model and toward the people who would use it.
Geeta, our mentor, was relentless in the best way. She followed our progress closely and kept asking the question that has no code answer: what problem are you actually solving? Day by day, with the others too, the sessions pushed me from thinking about a clever idea to thinking about stakeholders and value.
I came back with more than a better project. I came back with a standard for myself: build something that someone, somewhere, genuinely needs, and only then is the engineering meaningful.
