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Life at Fireblaze
Learning Is Only the Beginning
Technology does not stop at the classroom door. At Fireblaze AI School, students and mentors learn together, build together, compete together and celebrate together. This is what that actually looks like.
What is life at Fireblaze AI School like? Fireblaze AI School is an AI and technology institute founded in Nagpur on 31 October 2017, with three centres across the city. Beyond scheduled classes, students build real projects, compete in the Fireblaze Tech League, present their work to mentors and industry guests, attend workshops and hackathons, and join a peer community that continues after the course ends. It is a place where learning is measured by what you have built, not what you have attended.
The Experience
What life here actually feels like
Six things happen here continuously. Most of them are not on a timetable.
Learn
Live sessions with practitioner mentors, then the harder part: the self-paced hours where it actually sinks in.
Build
Every module ends in something you made. Dashboards, models, pipelines, applications, reviewed by a mentor.
Compete
The Fireblaze Tech League, hackathons and external competitions like the Orange Promptathon.
Collaborate
Team sprints, peer debugging and the batch WhatsApp group that solves problems at 11pm.
Celebrate
Festivals, batch milestones, demo days and the moment somebody's first offer letter lands.
Grow
Mock interviews, presentations to strangers, and the slow build of being able to defend your own work.
Culture Pillars
What we actually care about
01. Curiosity over compliance
The syllabus is a floor, not a ceiling. The students who do best here are the ones who ask why the number moved, not the ones who finish the assignment fastest.
02. Building beats watching
Nobody has ever learned to ship by watching someone else type. Every program here is built around what you produce, and every deliverable gets reviewed.
03. Collaboration, not competition, in the classroom
Batches are small enough that people know each other. Peers explaining concepts to peers is one of the most reliable things that happens in this building.
04. Competition, when it teaches something
The Tech League exists because a deadline, a panel and a real problem statement teach things a coursework project cannot.
05. Community that outlasts the course
Alumni come back as guest speakers, referrers and mentors. Several of the placements on our reviews page started as a message in an alumni group.
06. Honesty about outcomes
We publish alumni outcomes by name, we do not advertise job guarantees, and counsellors are expected to tell people when a program is the wrong fit. Culture includes what you refuse to claim.
Fireblaze Tech League
Where learning becomes competition
The Tech League is our flagship student innovation competition. Teams get a real industry problem statement and a few weeks, then present working products to a panel. Three seasons have run so far.
What is the Fireblaze Tech League? It is a student innovation competition run by Fireblaze AI School in Nagpur, in which teams spend a three-to-four-week sprint building a working AI product around a set industry theme, then present it to a judging panel. Season 2.0 ran an AI CFO finance-automation challenge in June 2026, and Season 3 ran an AI-for-mining challenge in July 2026.
Season 3
AI-Powered Mining Innovation Challenge
11 July 2026 • Nandanvan centre, Nagpur • 30-day build
Teams designed, built and presented AI solutions aimed at improving modern mining operations, taking a complex industrial problem from concept to working application over 30 days.
Season 2.0
AI CFO Hackathon
13 June 2026 • Mate Square, Nagpur • 21-day sprint • 20 teams
Built around the theme "Build an AI-Powered Platform for Finance, Compliance and Automation." Twenty student teams presented working AI products at the grand finale, with Team TitansTECH taking the top honours.
Season 1 ran before we began publishing detailed event recaps, so it is not documented here yet. We would rather leave a gap than reconstruct it from memory.
The Journey
A culture built over time
Documented milestones, in order. Where we do not have a verified date, we have left it out.
131 October 2017
Fireblaze AI School is founded
Founded in Nagpur by Aniruddha Kalbande, as a unit of Fireblaze Technologies Private Limited.
2Growth
Three centres across Nagpur
Mate Square, Nandanvan and Sadar, alongside live online batches reaching students across Maharashtra. See the centres.
3Ongoing
NASSCOM partnership
Fireblaze AI School is a NASSCOM partner for its Post Graduate Program in Data Science and Analytics.
4May 2026
Orange Promptathon
Our founder mentored student teams that took top positions at this regional AI innovation competition. Read more.
513 June 2026
Tech League 2.0
The AI CFO hackathon finale at Mate Square, with 20 student teams presenting working products.
611 July 2026
Tech League Season 3
The AI-powered mining innovation challenge concludes at the Nandanvan centre.
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Campus and industry programs
Faculty development and value-added courses at KDK College of Engineering and YCCE, an academic collaboration with RTMNU, hackathon jury roles at KITS Ramtek and Priyadarshini College, and corporate AI training for industry teams. See college partnerships.
Beyond the Classroom
Learning happens in more than one format
Lab and project time
Supervised hands-on hours where you build and break things with a mentor nearby.
Tech Leagues
Multi-week competitive sprints on real industry problem statements.
Workshops and seminars
Short, focused sessions, many of them free and open. See upcoming events.
Industry interactions
Guest sessions with working professionals, covered on our community page.
Peer learning
The batch itself. Students explaining things to students is how most concepts finally land.
Presentations and demos
Defending what you built, out loud, to people who ask hard questions.
Career sessions
Resume work, mock interviews and group discussions. See the placement process.
Campus programs
We also teach on partner campuses through value-added courses and faculty development programs.
A normal day
One of our students wrote up what a day here actually looks like. Read it.
We Build Together
Work our students have shipped
Not our marketing. Students presenting and defending what they built, which is exactly what an interview asks of them.
Virat Kohli Performance Dashboard
Hospital Emergency Room Dashboard
Amazon Sales Dashboard
Insurance Sales Dashboard
Logistics and Delivery Dashboard
HR Analytics Dashboard
People of Fireblaze
The people, and where they went next
Real, named alumni who consented to their stories being published. Every outcome we publish is on our reviews page.
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These are real, consented alumni outcomes, not stock photos or invented testimonials. Backgrounds and employers are as reported by each student.
The mentors
Programs here are taught by practitioner-mentors who work with the tools they teach, including Aniruddha Kalbande, Anjali Bhargawa, Yash Wadpalliwar, Malhar Kerzarkar, Tinish Uge, Prajwal Nagrale and Sneha Kalbande. See full faculty profiles, or meet them during a campus visit. We encourage it.
Want to teach or build here?
We hire mentors, engineers and people who care about how students actually learn.
Explore CareersFrom the Sessions
Moments from campus and partner programs
Real photographs from our value-added courses, faculty development programs and corporate training sessions.
Stories From Fireblaze
Read more about life here
Fireblaze News & Events
Fireblaze Tech League Season 3 Concludes in Nagpur
The AI-powered mining innovation challenge, from 30-day sprint to final presentations.
Fireblaze News & Events
Tech League 2.0: AI CFO Hackathon
Twenty student teams, a 21-day sprint and a finance-automation showcase at Mate Square.
Fireblaze News & Events
A Day in the Life of a Fireblaze Student
What the hours outside the live sessions actually look like.
Fireblaze News & Events
Mentoring Winning Teams at Orange Promptathon 2026
Our founder mentored student teams to top positions at a regional AI innovation competition.
More on the Fireblaze blog, or see what is coming up on the events page.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
What is life at Fireblaze AI School like?
Beyond scheduled classes, students build real projects, compete in the Fireblaze Tech League, present their work to mentors and industry guests, attend workshops and hackathons, and join a peer community that continues after the course ends. Learning here is measured by what you have built, not what you have attended.
What is the Fireblaze Tech League?
It is a student innovation competition run by Fireblaze AI School in Nagpur. Teams get a real industry problem statement and a three-to-four-week sprint to build a working AI product, then present it to a judging panel. Three seasons have run so far.
How many seasons of the Fireblaze Tech League have there been?
Three. Season 2.0 ran an AI CFO finance-automation challenge on 13 June 2026 at Mate Square with 20 student teams, and Season 3 ran an AI-powered mining innovation challenge concluding 11 July 2026 at the Nandanvan centre. Season 1 predates our published event recaps.
What events does Fireblaze AI School organise?
Tech League competitions, hackathons, free workshops and seminars, industry guest sessions, and career events such as mock interviews and group discussions. We also run faculty development programs and value-added courses on partner college campuses. Upcoming events are listed on our events page.
Do students work on real projects?
Yes. Every module ends in a build that a mentor reviews, and programs finish with a capstone. Students present and defend their work, and several project walkthroughs are published on our YouTube channel, including Power BI dashboards built by students.
Does Fireblaze conduct technical competitions?
Yes. The Fireblaze Tech League is our own flagship competition, and our founder has also mentored student teams at external events such as the Orange Promptathon 2026 and served as jury at college hackathons including Smart India Hackathon internal rounds.
Where is Fireblaze AI School located?
Fireblaze AI School operates three centres in Nagpur, Maharashtra: Mate Square (head office), Nandanvan and Sadar. Live online batches are also available for students elsewhere in Maharashtra and across India.
Can I visit a Fireblaze centre before enrolling?
Yes, and we encourage it. You can book a free demo class and a campus visit at any of the three Nagpur centres, sit in a live session, meet the mentors and speak to current students before deciding.
Does Fireblaze work with colleges?
Yes. We run value-added courses and faculty development programs on partner campuses, including KDK College of Engineering and Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, with an academic collaboration with RTMNU's Department of Mathematics and hackathon jury engagements at other colleges.
Where can I see Fireblaze event photos and videos?
Photographs from campus and partner programs are on this page, student project walkthroughs are embedded above and on our YouTube channel, and written recaps of individual events are published on the Fireblaze blog.
Next Step
Ready to be part of it?
The honest way to judge a place like this is to turn up. Sit in a live class, meet the mentors, look at what current students are building, and ask them what they think. We will not stop you.
- Free career counselling and an honest profile evaluation
- A free demo class at Mate Square, Nandanvan or Sadar
- Bring your parents, we will answer their questions too
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Since 2017
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