Excelrs is teaching Dumka's engineering students to build with AI

Excelrs is now teaching Dumka's engineering students to build with AI.

Last year the training was phone apps. Students learned React Native and left with an app on their own phone. Companies still want that. This year they also want something new. They want a young engineer who can use AI while building, and who knows when not to trust it.

That is what Excelrs is teaching at Dumka Engineering College.

Why Excelrs added this

A student can already open a chat window and ask it to write a program. Many do. Some paste the answer into a file and hope it runs. When it fails, they cannot say why.

That is not a skill. A company will find out in the first week.

Excelrs wants the opposite. The student should be able to ask the tool for help, read what it gave, change it, and explain the result to a mentor. If they cannot explain it, it is not finished.

The college already asks every engineering student to complete an internship. Excelrs has been that internship here since last year. The certificate still comes, with the college's name beside Excelrs. The new part is the work inside it. Students now build a small AI feature, not only a screen with buttons.

Excelrs does not want students who can paste an answer. It wants students who can explain the answer.

What a student learns

Excelrs keeps the training on one path, so nobody is lost in ten tools.

1. Learn what the program can and cannot do. It writes fast. It also invents. The first lesson is how to check it.
2. Build a normal screen, the way they did with phone apps, so there is a place for the new feature to live.
3. Add one helper. The student gives it a small set of notes, a chapter, a project report, a shop's item list. The helper answers only from those notes.
4. Show the helper to a mentor. The mentor asks questions. The student fixes what they cannot explain.

The tool Excelrs is using for this is called Genkit. The name is less important than the habit. The student owns the notes. The helper is not allowed to wander off and make up a fact from the open internet. If the answer is not in the notes, it should say so.

That is a real job skill. Companies do not want a program that sounds clever and is wrong about their own work. They want one that stays with the documents they gave it.

The mentor asks the student to explain it. Pasting an answer is not enough.

What the weeks feel like

The first days are clumsy. The helper gives a long answer that misses the question. The student learns to ask a shorter question, and to show the helper an example of the answer they want.

Then the student connects it to their own project. A final-year team might let it answer questions about their report. Another student might let it explain one error in their code, in simple words, and then fix the error by hand.

Excelrs mentors sit with the work. They are not there to be impressed by a demo. They ask: where did this answer come from? What happens if the notes do not contain it? What did you change yourself?

A parent does not need to know the tool's name. The test is simpler. Can the student open the project and show which lines they wrote, and which lines the helper suggested? If they can, Excelrs is satisfied. If everything was pasted, the week is repeated.

Some students move fast. Some need the step repeated. Both can finish. The student who rushes and cannot explain it is the one who is not done.

At the office in Dumka

Much of this happens at the Lawazia office in Dumka. Excelrs is how Lawazia trains engineers, and the office is where products are built.

A student sees people using the same kind of helper on real work, and also sees them throw an answer away when it is wrong. That lesson is hard to teach from a slide. It is easy to teach when the student is in the room.

Parents sometimes worry that AI means their child will stop thinking. In this room it is the other way round. The tool writes a first draft. The student has to decide what is true. That decision is the thinking.

The tool can draft. The student still has to decide what is true.

After the training

Students who do the work well can be considered for paid work at Lawazia. We hire from Excelrs because we have seen the projects and the habit, not because of a line on a certificate.

This is not a promise to every student. Excelrs cannot promise a job. No honest program can. A student who leaves with one working helper, a mentor's notes, and the habit of checking answers is ready to show that work to any company.

An honest note for parents

Excelrs is not a government course. The certificate is not issued by AICTE. It is recognised because Dumka Engineering College puts its name on it, and because Lawazia hires from the training.

Please do not pay anyone who promises an AI job in ten days. Ask Excelrs, or ask the college department, what the student will build. Then ask your child to show you that thing.

If they can open it, use it, and tell you in their own words where the answers come from, the training did what it should.

How to join

Students at Dumka Engineering College should ask their department about the Excelrs internship. Come ready to build. The class is for people who will stay with a problem when the first answer is wrong.

That is the whole of it. Excelrs is teaching Dumka's students the new tool companies are using, in this town, with a person watching the work.

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