Meet the Indian Students Solving Campus Life with Google Gemini
Earlier this year, a Google-Kantar report found that 95% of Gemini student users in India reported feeling more confident, using it for diverse use cases from academic support to early career prep. We are constantly inspired by how Google Gemini is becoming a creative and productive thought partner for this generation.
We saw this confidence in action with Fund My Crazy, a campus innovation campaign where students introduced solutions for real, everyday campus problems. In just nine days, we received over 29,000 entries from students using Gemini as a thinking partner to architect tech stacks, pressure-test assumptions, visualize complex solutions, etc. More details about the program here.
Meet the Top 3 winners
Feko Pay: Hardik Sachan (Shaheed Bhagat Singh Evening College, Delhi)
Hardik tackled the friction of splitting cafe bills and chasing friends for payments. His chat-first app uses AI to itemize bills via photo scan. Using Gemini for ideation and creative support, Hardik refined his product vision and created high-fidelity mock-ups for his pitch. He noted: “Gemini helped me a lot while making my presentation and ideation stage, especially Canvas and Nano Banana. The mock-ups and everything else were perfect.”
Swappr: Garvit Dudeja (Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur)
Garvit identified locked value in dorm rooms—expensive gear like guitars and textbooks gathering dust. He built a gamified barter platform where students swipe to trade items within their campus. Garvit used Gemini as a structural architect. He noted: "Google Gemini helped me organize my thoughts, structure my thought process, and get me on a structured path."
Rest In Pieces: Bhavana L (Sona College of Technology, Salem, Tamil Nadu)
Bhavana focused on the "Project Graveyard," where seniors dump usable robots and sensors after graduation. Her marketplace auto-identifies hardware components from scrap projects, turning e-waste into affordable resources for juniors. She noted that Gemini played a key role in her presentation and research.
We’re thrilled to see how Gemini is supporting this generation's curiosity, becoming a versatile catalyst for all of our Top 10 finalists:
- P S Sai Vikas (Bengaluru) used Gemini as his "companion for the whole thing" while building 24/7 printout machines
- Devika Mukundan (Thrissur) used Gemini to analyze six months of data to predict canteen leftovers.
- Shivam Saini (Panipat) used Gemini to visualise his whole project and scale his student travel network.
- Harshal Ashok Suryavanshi (Kolhapur) found that Gemini helps him to simplify all things and made it easy to understand his concepts for his digital out-pass system.
- Aditya Rao (Chennai) using Gemini to visualise his idea for robotic "monkey honeypots"
- Dani Mathew (Vaikom) and Eshwar Anand Badugu (Rajkot) leveraged it to synthesize research and generate mockups for their respective projects.
To know more about their ideas, check here.
