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Introducing the GitHub Education Stream Team!

Introducing the GitHub Education Stream Team!

We are taking GitHub Campus TV to the next level with the help of emerging developers! How? Students from around the world are coming together to host weekly streams on Twitch. Streams will focus on everything from coding challenges to preparing for interviews. Why should you tune in? The GitHub Education Stream Team (GEST) is […]

Elise Hollowed March 25, 2021
Let’s talk about tech internships

Let’s talk about tech internships

Are you a student developer looking to land an internship? We’ve got answers! We recently sat down with Co.Lab Co-founder Helen Huang on GitHub Campus TV to find out how to secure an internship and successfully break into the tech industry. Helen shared her personal journey going from earth science student to product manager at […]

Elise Hollowed February 24, 2021
MLH Fellowship, powered by GitHub, welcomes American Express and Adobe to the Summer 2021 Program

MLH Fellowship, powered by GitHub, welcomes American Express and Adobe to the Summer 2021 Program

Students crave hands-on experience, and companies look for developers who can contribute to existing projects. As the home to the world’s largest community of developers, we have the great responsibility to empower young developers and enable opportunities like the MLH Fellowship, powered by GitHub. We’re not alone in our commitment to change the ecosystem. Adobe […]

Vanessa Gennarelli February 19, 2021
Introducing GitHub Campus TV!

Introducing GitHub Campus TV!

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of GitHub Campus TV! With new shows every week, tune in to hear from experts, participate in workshops, and join a community of passionate technologists from around the world. If you’re a student looking to build your skills, confidence, and community then this channel is for you! What is […]

Elise Hollowed February 17, 2021
Level up your code with TwilioQuest

Level up your code with TwilioQuest

It’s no secret that making your first contribution to open source can be intimidating. A Major League Hacking survey found that a majority of students know that contributing to open source is important for their careers, but about a third of them aren’t sure where to start and struggle with confidence. Yet it doesn’t have […]

Ariel Kanter January 22, 2021
Announcing the GitHub Education Classroom Report 2020

Announcing the GitHub Education Classroom Report 2020

For the fourth year in a row, the GitHub Education team surveyed students and educators to provide faculty with information to support augmented instruction and share key insights from other instructors. GitHub Education helps students, teachers, schools, and partners access the resources they need to shape the next generation of developers. This is particularly important […]

Elise Hollowed December 30, 2020
Introducing the new Campus Advisors program

Introducing the new Campus Advisors program

GitHub Campus Advisors are teachers who are enthusiastic about teaching with Git and GitHub. Whether or not they come from a technical background, they’re deeply passionate about technology and sharing what they know with others. Day to day, Campus Advisors introduce version control to students in all fields, both technical and otherwise. That’s because understanding […]

Arelia Jones December 10, 2020
Try something new at Local Hack Day: Learn

Try something new at Local Hack Day: Learn

It’s time for Major League Hacking’s (MLH) annual Local Hack Day: Learn, a worldwide celebration of learning. Do you have a framework that you have wanted to try? Or perhaps you just want to have fun with friends and compete to earn points for your community? Join us for a global day of learning on […]

Elise Hollowed October 15, 2020
Remote Education: Creating community through shared experiences

Remote Education: Creating community through shared experiences

Remote Education explores the challenges of organizing student communities and events online. We’ll be speaking with event organizers and community leaders in the industry and academics each week to help you bring your community online this semester. Whether online or in-person, community is created through shared experiences. This can be as simple as getting a […]

Elise Hollowed September 24, 2020
Remote Education: A series of best practices for online campus communities

Remote Education: A series of best practices for online campus communities

Remote Education explores the challenges of organizing student communities and events online. We’ll be speaking with event organizers and community leaders in the industry and academics every week to help you bring your community online this semester.  Whether looking to move a hackathon online or to build a technical community (remotely) on campus, this school […]

Elise Hollowed September 10, 2020
Welcome to the inaugural class of MLH Fellows

Welcome to the inaugural class of MLH Fellows

Student developers are the future of software. Their taste in tools, habits around code, what they are learning–all of these drivers will shape tech, and culture in general, for years to come. But for many students, the traditional pathways to expand their networks and learn new skills vanished with COVID-19. Major League Hacking (MLH) teamed […]

Vanessa Gennarelli June 24, 2020
Welcoming the Octograds of 2020

Welcoming the Octograds of 2020

Class of 2020, you did it! With schools turning to drive through diploma stops and recreating their campus in Minecraft, GitHub Education decided that celebrating this milestone for the next generation of developers would be on us this year. A community celebration to welcome the Class of 2020. Through copper cables, mechanical keyboards, and computers, […]

Elise Hollowed June 16, 2020