Ask HN: How to setup a software culture in my school

I'm a undergraduate freshman at an above average engineering school in India. My school has one of highest rated computer science and engineering programmes in the country, right after the top 10. It also has the students of sufficient intellectual capacity. One of the reasons I joined this institution was because I was informed that there was an excellent coding culture in place.

However, since then I have realized that the extent of this 'coding culture' is limited to teaching beginners programing, training for programming contests and providing bare minimum introductory classes to topics that are in fashion like block chains and ML.

I recognize the practical importance of such activities, but I lament the lack of a culture that promotes students to build actual software solutions to real life problems i.e. Software that people actually use. That was one of the reasons I started programming in the first place.

So I have taken it upon myself to remedy the situation. From my perspective, the only way to do this is: A) Actually make software solutions to real life problems and B) spread the word around the campus that there is a group of students doing this.

Any suggestions/comments?