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How to apply ?

A step by step guide

Applying for a Github student dev pack is easy!

1. Visit GitHub Education and click Get benefits in the top-right corner.
2. Under “Which best describes your academic status?”, select Student.
3. Then, complete one of the following:

• If you have a school-issued email, select (or add it).
  Please note that email addresses must be verified and any addresses with plus signs (“+”) are not eligible.

• If you don’t have a school-issued email, follow the prompts to fill out additional information. You’re still eligible even if you only have a personal Gmail address, as long as you can provide alternative documentation to verify your current student status.

4. You may be prompted for more information. When prompted, upload an image that demonstrates your academic status or confirms your Enrollment.

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Whats Adafruit IO ?

Its a cloud service. You can store and retrieve the data when needed. Adafruit IO can handle and visualize the data. there is a dashboard is associated with it to provide chart, graphs, etc and display your data.

What Adafruit can do for you?

• Display the sensor data in real-time

• You can control your motors and other sensors

• You can integrate web services like displaying tweets, sending mail, weather services, etc.

You can unlock its full potential by accessing Adafruit with Github student developer pack.

Other Discounts

As a part of the program, you will get discounts on certain Adafruit products.

• 30% Discounts on Circuit Playground Express - GH STUDENT EDITION

• 30% Discounts on Circuit Playground Bluefruit - Bluetooth Low Energy - GH STUDENT

What are the benefits?

Students have access to more than just the best developer tools with the GitHub Student Developer Pack

Some of the popular benefits are,

Namecheap.com:- 1 year domain name registration on the .me TLD.

.tech Domains:- One .TECH domain free for 1 year.

name.com:- One free domain name and free Advanced Security (SSL, privacy protection, and more).

DataCamp:- Free 3-month individual subscription for students.

Bootstrap Studio:- A free license for Bootstrap Studio while you are a student.

Canva:- Free 12 month subscription of Canva’s Pro tier.

and many more...

It may take 7+ days for the activation process.

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Check out https://www.arduino.cc/github/students

@Abhay How to do registration for the Webinar?

Government of India is taking all necessary steps to ensure that we are prepared well to face the challenge and threat posed by the growing pandemic of COVID 19 – the Corona Virus. With the active support of the people of India, we have been able to contain the spread of the virus in our country.

The most important factor in preventing the spread of the Virus locally is to empower the citizens with the right information and taking precautions as per the advisories being issued by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. Further, we are also getting inputs with regard to individuals and companies who have developed technologies and innovative solutions, Bioinformatics, datasets, Apps for diagnosis etc that can be leveraged for strengthening the fight against Corona.

In order to involve the community in the fight against the Virus, we would want you to share your solutions to help fight #Coronavirus . Submitted solutions will be evaluated for adoption and those selected will be suitable rewarded.

Be a part of the mission against Coronavirus!

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA -

• Applicants who want to participate in COVID 19 Solution Challenge can be individuals or Startups that comply with the definition of a startup as notified by DPIIT vide order no G.S.R. 127(E) dated 19th February 2019.

• For the product to be developed as part of COVID 19 Solution Challenge if any IPR/Patent is being used, contesting entity must possess the legitimate rights to use the IPR/Patents.

MyGov will have the right to chose all submitted solutions and consider it for deployment by scaling it up if found feasible.

Last Date of Participation - 31st March 2020
Registration Link: https://innovate.mygov.in/covid19/

@salmanfaris okay now it's working