Department of Information and Technology and Centre for IIOT, AAACET jointly organized Five days certificate course on ‘IOT prototyping using Arduino and node MCU’ from 24.09.2024 to 28.09.2024. Total of 58 students from II-year IT, participated and Mr. M. S. Kalyana Sundaram, AP / EE was the resource person for this programme. The session started with the introduction to internet of things and its evolution. The resource person explained the hardware and software requirement to build an IOT prototype. the Hands-on training session was given with the help of Arduino UNO and Node MCU microcontroller boards. The participants developed small scale IOT based projects during the hands on training sessions.