📌 Must-Read: Education Community Essential Guide – Updated Monthly! (🍂 September Edition)

[samus-aran]

Welcome to the GitHub Education Community!

Whether you’re a student, teacher, or lifelong learner, this post is your go-to guide for everything happening in the Education community. Check this resource monthly for key resources, important discussions, and the latest events to explore. For Frequently Asked Questions see these resources:

• Student Developer Pack Application + Copilot Pro FAQs 🎒✨ – Get help for verification before posting!
• Educators & GitHub Classroom FAQs 🍎🧑‍🏫 – Tips for educators getting verified and using GitHub Classroom

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🔑 Key Discussions & Announcements (September Edition)

Stay up to date with the latest community discussions and important updates.

🎮 Announcing Shiba Arcade: Code Your Way to Tokyo with Hack Club!

Hack Club has launched Shiba Arcade—an epic game jam where teens collaborate on GitHub to build the world’s first open-source arcade in Tokyo! Over the next two months, code your own open-source game, playtest others, and release updates. The top participants win a funded trip to Tokyo (November 5th–12th), with flights, hotel, and food included, to build the arcade together in person.

👾 Open to anyone age 18 or younger. Beginners are welcome, meet fellow teen game devs and level up your skills!

Hack Club’s other GitHub-powered adventures include Trail, where 30 teens built and open-sourced hardware to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, and Juice, a popup open-source game café in Shanghai with 100 teen creators.

Ready to enter the arcade? Start your game project on GitHub now and join the fun!

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📘 New resource: The GitHub Discussions Master Guide

This month we’ve launched something big: theGitHub Discussions Master Guide - a complete, living reference to help you get the most out of Discussions.

It brings together everything published so far - from managing notifications to moderation best practices - in one central hub. Whether you’re a Pages builder, project maintainer, or just curious about collaboration on GitHub, this guide is for you.
New sections are being released weekly, so subscribe to the thread and stay up to date as fresh best practices drop.

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🏠 Explore the New GitHub Home Dashboard: Help Shape the Future!

GitHub is rolling out exciting improvements to your home dashboard and global profile menu! Access your most important work, pull requests and issues, right from the new My Work tab, with easy filtering and actionable next steps. Prefer the classic activity feed? The Feed tab remains, and your choice persists every visit.

💡 Share your feedback, suggest new features, or report bugs. What would make your dashboard and profile menu even more powerful? The GitHub team wants to hear your ideas and workflow needs!

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🎉 Immutable Releases: Public Preview is Here!

GitHub has introduced Immutable Releases in public preview, boosting supply chain security by making release assets and tags unchangeable once published. This ensures software releases remain tamper-proof and trustworthy for users and downstream dependencies.

How it works: Create a draft release, add your assets, and publish, after publishing, no edits are allowed. Upcoming API support will enable organizations and repositories to manage immutable releases programmatically.

Learn more in the changelog and docs.

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🔄 The Rusty Developer’s Guide to Ramping Up – Share Your Comeback!

Feeling out of practice with coding or tech work? You’re not alone! Dive into The Rusty Developer’s Guide to Ramping Up for a relatable story and actionable steps to rebuild your confidence, one small win at a time. Discover tips on tackling low-friction tasks, rebuilding your coding mindset, and using documentation and public sharing to accelerate your comeback.

💬 Join the conversation to share your own journey, offer encouragement, and post about the “small wins” that have helped you shake off the rust. Let’s support each other in getting back into the technical groove!

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🌟 7 Days of GitHub: A Learning Series by @ghostinhershell

Looking to level up your GitHub skills or help someone new get started? @ghostinhershell has crafted an amazing “7 Days of GitHub” series packed with friendly, step-by-step guides for absolute beginners and self-taught learners!

Highlights from the series:

• Day 1: What Is GitHub (and Why Do People Use It)? – A gentle intro to GitHub, version control, and why it matters.
• Day 2: Create your GitHub Profile – Make your profile shine, from bio to custom README.
• Day 3: Fork, Star, Watch – How to save, follow, and copy projects (no coding required!).
• Day 4: Tell Your Story – Write a README Using Markdown – Start documenting your journey and learn Markdown basics.
• Day 5: Ask, Suggest, Collaborate — How to Open an Issue on GitHub – Open your first issue and join the open source conversation.
• Day 6: Your First Commit — Save Your Progress, Share Your Work – Make your first edit and commit on GitHub.
• Day 7: Start or Contribute to a Project on GitHub – Put your new skills into action!
• BONUS: What’s Next? Your GitHub Learning Roadmap – Plan your next steps and keep the momentum going.

💬 Each post includes community prompts, hands-on challenges, and tons of encouragement. Whether you’re brand new or returning after a break, this series is your launchpad to confidence and contribution.

Jump in, share your progress, and connect with other learners in the comments!

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🗓️ Upcoming Events & Opportunities (September Edition)

💻 For the Love of Code 2025: Hack for Joy!

Build something wild, weird, or wonderful just for fun in For the Love of Code 2025! From July 16 to September 22, join coders worldwide to create joyful projects— hardware hacks, AI bots, games, or anything that sparks delight. Enter solo, with friends, or with Copilot. Winners get featured on the GitHub blog and score a year of Copilot Pro+.

💬 Submit, share, and celebrate coding for the joy of it!

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Upcoming Campus Expert Events 💻⚡

• 📍 Sept 6 – Experience Hackster at HMR Institute of Technology and Management - a 9-hour hackathon where creativity, problem-solving, and teamwork collide in a fast-paced, energetic event. Hosted at a leading Delhi institute known for innovation and industry connections, Hackster is where future tech leaders take on challenges as part of the "gang." Say hello to @ConnectBhawna, our Campus Expert attending 👋
• 📍 Sept 12–14 – Canada’s biggest hackathon – Join 1,000+ students from around the world for 36 hours of building, learning, and creating at Canada’s largest hackathon, packed with workshops, mentorship, and resources to help you make something amazing. A few of our Campus Experts will be there 🚩
• 📍 Sept 20 – Join Software Freedom Day 2025 at Nepal College of Information Technology, Lalitpur, where Nepal Open Source Klub brings together students, developers, and open-source enthusiasts for a day of project exhibitions, coding and cybersecurity competitions, Linux demos, expert talks, and community celebration, all in support of Free and Open Source Software. See our Campus Expert, @SatyaRajAwasth1, there to represent! 🚩
• 📍 Sept 20–21 – Join Maharashtra’s biggest 24-hour hackathon, Hack4Maha in Nagpur, India, where tech and tradition collide as you build innovative projects, celebrate local spirit, and shape the future in an electrifying, arcade-themed event powered by NariNexus. See our Campus Expert, @toukirkhan, at the GitHub booth.
• 🌐 Sept 29 – The opening session of Djangonaut Space 2025 celebrates the kickoff of a new season for their free, 8-week Django mentorship program, uniting contributors across the globe to collaborate, learn, and make impactful contributions to the Django ecosystem(Online) Our Campus Expert @priyapahwa is one of the organizers!

👉 See more of our Campus Experts events

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🌟 Community Spotlight – Shoutout to Our Contributors! (September Edition)

Each month, we highlight members who go above and beyond—whether by helping others, asking insightful questions, or sharing valuable resources. A huge thank you to:

🏆 @davevad93, @Leorev01, @imDarshanGK, @jdneo, @victormoni for their awesome contributions helping others throughout the Education category.

These members continuously guide our users how to best navigate the verification process, when to raise a support ticket and remind our users to wait (patiently) for their academic benefits to be awarded.

The community team is always excited to see others helping others and we want to say a huge thank you to the above members! 💖 ⭐⭐

👏 Want to be featured? Keep engaging, helping, and contributing valuable insights!

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[samus-aran]

Hey folks! Felt this needed a separate shout out 🎉

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[AttackerGans]

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[krpi8429]

Stale. Should be removed.

[karadHub]

Heyya @samus-aran / @everyone,
Can you share more details about the weekly structure and expected time commitment for the GitHub Foundations prep course? And how do you select members for the monthly spotlight, and can community members nominate others for recognition?

[samus-aran]

🚀 New Update Alert – April Edition is Here!

Hey everyone! The April update just dropped and it's packed with great discussions from the community and links to some exciting upcoming Hackathons! 🎉
Don’t miss out — check it out here and join the conversation. See ya there! 👋

[gftvlie]

come on, good

[imDarshanGK]

Thanks @samus-aran! 😊 I'm glad to be part of this community and looking forward to contributing more. Excited for the upcoming events and discussions! 🚀

[aeratory678]

Hiya, @samus-aran .waiting for an monthly update to may edition

[samus-aran]

🚀 New Update Alert – September Edition is Here!
Hey everyone! The September update just dropped and it's packed with great discussions from the community and links to some exciting upcoming Campus Expert Events! 🎉
Don’t miss out — check it out here and join the conversation. See ya there! 👋

[Leorev01]

Thanks for the mention @samus-aran,
Really enjoy and am happy to help where I can

[ghostinhershell]

Congrats to @davevad93, @Leorev01, @imDarshanGK, @jdneo and @victormoni! 🏆 ✨