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Calling the Class of 2020: Join DEV + GitHub for Graduation

Jess Lee on May 19, 2020

Around this time of year, students across the world are typically celebrating the closing of a chapter — whether that’s from grade school, college,...
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Juan Pablo Flores (he/him)

I'm so glad about organizing this event and collaborating with DEV! Even if we are staying home, it doesn't mean we can't celebrate together🎉.

I wish this online graduation ceremony allows students to celebrate their end-of-course achievements in these unusual circumstances while keeping everyone safe. We are working hard to make this an excellent experience for everyone!✨

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AnubhavHawk

This is going to be an amazing experience i am sure.
Sad we didn't receive any farewell for our graduation, but you people are nailing it for all the graduates :)
Can't wait for the ceremony :D

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Peter Kim Frank

Congratulations to all of the graduates! I hope you're able to use this celebration as an opportunity to truly feel proud of your own accomplishments, and to connect with other community members who are in a very similar transition phase in their lives and careers.

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Helen Kent

Done! I graduated from bootcamp...not college or uni so i hope that's ok!

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Jess Lee

Totally ok!! And congrats!

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Aashutosh Rathi

This event helped me push myself to write a post finally.
dev.to/aashutoshrathi/labper-lab-p...

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Jess Lee

👏👏👏👏

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Chris W

Could it be a hackathon project that I worked while I was a student? :)

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Juan Pablo Flores (he/him)

Yes! Hackathon projects are welcomed for submission.

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Peyton McGinnis

So I'm assuming this is only for college and university grads, correct? Asking because I'm graduating high school.

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Juan Pablo Flores (he/him)

High School graduates can join as well 🎉

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Peyton McGinnis

Ok, awesome! One last question, can I just submit any project I've been working on since my high school
doesn't have a computer science class? It says above to submit your final project/thesis.

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Elise Hollowed

You're welcome to submit any project you've been working on 💖

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Peyton McGinnis

Awesome!!! Thanks so much, y'all are amazing. 😄😄

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Arnab Dey

This is really nice initiative from Github. As a 2020 graduate, I really like the idea and good way to meet other graduates.

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jay

***SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS NOT CLOSED

Github received a lot of negative feedback for abruptly closing submissions prematurely without any warning about max capacities or early closure. They promptly took notice and addressed the situation with an apology and reopened submissions to the originally provided deadline of May 25, 2020. They are actively receiving all community requests for the event and all Tier 1 requests will be honored byGithub. Only the DEV sponsored Tier 2 and Tier 3 portions are not resuming with the originally provided deadline of May 25, 2020 and are currently withdrawn from the event for anyone from the community attempting to participate as of the time the original unexpected event closure notice was given. Please properly update this post with the correct information so that community members can still participate with Github at least for the event.

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Nizar

I'm glad something that awesome is being done. Honestly, we needed all these hackathons and interactions happening online :D

I wrote a post about a project I did that I was planning to keep hidden in a drawer. But I thought it would be interesting to some. It is about realtime face recognition on android. If you're interested, I'd love that you take a look, here's the post

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Mahmoud Youssef

I'm so glad to join this event with you guys, and this is my post about our team graduation project ❤:
dev.to/mahmoudyoussef97/an-intelli...

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TonyDev 👾

👏👏👏

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Swastik Baranwal

Done! Thanks for this event!!

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Mohsin Hayat

During the lockdown, I worked on a platform where people can exchange skills. Please react on the post: dev.to/mohsinht/taskbarter-exchang...

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Ramy Gamal

Umm Hello :D

Sorry I don't know where should I ask about this question, but how can inquire about the status of my graduation swag shipment?

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Lisa Sy (she/her)

Congrats, grads!

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Nihar Raote

Congrats to all graduating this year 👏🏼🎉

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Jobin Keecheril

Hello all, I just came to know about this awesome event! I'm a 2020 graduate too. Is there anyway I can take part now?

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Dariusz Czajkowski

I wrote about the open-source app I made with my friend while at university. If anyone is interesed, here is the link: dev.to/dczajkowski/quickwords-an-o...

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Mohsin Hayat • Edited

For anyone who submitted the dev post before 22nd May, are they eligible for tier 2 swag/rewards?

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Mahmoud Youssef

If we 're a team of 6 members in it how can we participate ? I have noticed that everything is related to only one person 💔