Four residential camps
Meet your cohort, make a plan for your campus and discover how you want to lead.
TINKERHUB CAMPUS LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME 2026–27
MAKE YOURCAMPUSHAPPEN.
A year-long programme for college students who want to build maker communities in Kerala.
Apply nowSee what your year looks likeOne curious person. A whole community of possibilities.
THIS IS HOW IT STARTSSCROLL TO SEE IT HAPPEN
Big things start with people showing up.Meet the programme
01THE PROGRAMME
BE THE REASON PEOPLE SHOW UP.
Lead the learning revolution. Start with the people around you.
Every year, TinkerHub brings together college students who want to make their campus a place to learn, build and belong.
You don’t need to be a topper or a leader. Just curious.
People you can count on
Build lasting relationships with makers, mentors and alumni across Kerala’s active campuses.
Learn it. Then lead it.
Join study jams, workshops and hackathons as both a participant and an organiser.
Confidence in the unknown
Learn to bring people together and find a way forward as skills, jobs and the world change.
Learn by building. Lead by making room for others.
Curiosity comes first. Experience comes with it.
02YOUR YEAR AS A LEAD
A year that stays with you.
4 residential camps · May 2026–June 2027
May 2026 · 3rd week
Selection Camp
Meet your potential cohort and work through real challenges together in the final selection round.
01 / 06
May 2026
Onboarding Camp
Meet your cohort, explore the TinkerHub approach and make a plan for your campus.
02 / 06
May–Oct 2026
Building Season
Run campus workshops, events and hackathons with your mentors in your corner.
03 / 06
Dec 2026
Winter Camp
Reunite, swap what worked and what flopped, and rethink your next steps together.
Jan–Apr 2027 · Sprint SeasonProjects, showcases and community-building.
04 / 06
May 2027
Summer Camp
Go deeper into leadership and curriculum, and help shape the next cohort’s experience.
05 / 06
Jun 2027
Graduation
Celebrate your year, join the alumni network and become a person future leads can turn to.
06 / 06Your next chapter
2026–27
Programme calendar
Online review
Shortlisted applicants meet the TinkerHub team.
Selection Camp
An in-person residential camp selects the cohort.
Onboarding Camp
Philosophy, planning and campus goal-setting.
Building Season
Study Jams, Open Mics, Tink-Her-Hack, Useless Projects and campus events.
Winter Camp
Share across campuses and co-create the curriculum.
Sprint Season
Beyond the Blueprint, project showcases and community-building drives.
Summer Camp
Leadership, the next cohort’s vision and alumni integration.
Graduation
Celebrate the cohort, recognise the work and join the alumni network.
03CAMPUS LIFE
LESS TALK.
MORE MAKING.
MAKE FOR THE JOY OF ITBuild an idea that does not need a business case. No pitch deck, no pressure to be useful. Just the fun of bringing something wonderfully pointless to life.
Kerala’s largest women-in-tech hackathon, held annually at campus and state level. A place to build, collaborate and make the maker community more inclusive.
Hear from builders, founders and designers about their actual work: the choices, wrong turns and lessons that polished presentations leave out.
Multi-week learning cohorts in Python, product design, open source and more. Enough structure to finish, with room for college life.
Share what you are building, thinking about or excited by. You do not need a finished project or a polished presentation to take part.
Document how people make things, including experiments and setbacks. The learning behind a project matters as much as the final result.
Welcome new members, organise orientations, collaborate across campuses and bring chapters together. You shape what happens next.
Small experiments. Big breakthroughs.
And plenty of things you’ll figure out together.
04THE BIGGER PICTURE
KERALA HAS
THE CURIOSITY.
More campuses need a place to put it to work.
That’s where a maker community comes in.
01 / THE BIG PICTURE700+
engineering & arts colleges in Kerala
Most lack a structured maker community.02 / THE BIG PICTURE30,000+
TinkerHub members across Kerala
A shared appetite for learning and building.03 / THE BIG PICTURE50%
women participating in events
An equitable maker movement by design.04 / THE BIG PICTURE75%
first-time builders in programmes
You can start before you feel ready.THIS YEAR, WE AIM
EVEN BIGGER.
40,000+
young makers.
More young people across Kerala learning by doing, building their first projects and finding a community to grow with.
Be part of what’s next05REAL PEOPLE. REAL CAMPUSES.
IT STARTS
WITH SOMEONE.
Campus Lead“It’s about taking the first step and learning slowly.”
Campus Lead · Best Campus“I build the kind of campus I want to find.”
Maker of the MonthKeep showing up. Bring others along.
06THE PEOPLE BEHIND IT
GOOD PEOPLE.
GREAT COMPANY.
A whole community in your corner.
Hover or tap a card to meet the people behind it.
06THE PEOPLE BEHIND IT
GOOD PEOPLE.
GREAT COMPANY.
A whole community in your corner.
Hover or tap a card to meet the people behind it.
07RECOGNITION
MONTHLY AWARDFOR CHAPTERS
Campus of the Month
For the chapter building the best place to learn.
MONTHLY AWARDFOR MAKERS
Maker of the Month
For the student who keeps building and sharing.
TINKERHUB IN THE PRESS
A student movement, a wider conversation.
08YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
YOUR CAMPUS.
YOUR MOVE.
You don’t need to have it all figured out.
You need to care enough to start.
Tell us about yourself
Fill in the form with your campus, your motivation and a short video answer. Speak naturally about why you want to build a community. You do not need a rehearsed pitch.
APPLICATION FORMHave a conversation
Shortlisted applicants have a video call with the TinkerHub team about community, learning and what matters to them.
ONLINE REVIEW · APR 25, 2026Meet your potential cohort
At the residential selection camp, work through real challenges together and show how you lead. This is the final selection round.
SELECTION CAMP · MAY, 3RD WEEK