GitHub Education

06/04/2026

Gaming is evolving, and it’s becoming more accessible than ever. 🖐️✨

Check out “The Last Vigil,” an incredible project from John Lee and Aaron Shin created at 2025. They’ve built a tower defense game that is entirely keyboard and mouse-free, using computer vision to turn American Sign Language (ASL) into a magic-casting system!

While you defend your base, you’re actually learning ASL gestures to trigger spells. The team also integrated head-tracking to allow players to aim and move the camera just by moving their face.

The technical highlight? To ensure the game ran smoothly in a web browser without lag, they offloaded the heavy AI calculations to a Vultr Cloud Computing backend. It’s a perfect example of using thin-client architecture to bring complex AI models to the web.

We love seeing builders push the boundaries of how we interact with technology! 🚀

Read more about their build here: https://technica-2025.devpost.com/submissions/856526-the-last-vigil

04/30/2026

Skip building auth and user management.

handles billing, B2B apps, and more with flexible APIs and prebuilt components.

Now in the GitHub Student Developer Pack →
https://clerk.com/github-student-developer-pack

04/08/2026

🚨DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN $20,000+ IN PRIZES?🚨

Boston's biggest student-run AI Buildathon is BACK — Bigger. Than. Ever.

This time, backed by GitHub, Anthropic, ElevenLabs, WHOOP, Tripo, HubSpot, Maritime, Cursor, Massachusetts AI Coalition, and Lovable.

The Generator, (Babson’s AI Lab), is inviting 500 students to build around one theme: AI x Body & Mind. Our last Buildathon drew 300 students from Babson, MIT, Harvard, Northeastern,
Stanford, and BU. This year, we're going even bigger.

WHAT TO EXPECT:
⏱12 hours of building, competing, and pitching
💸$20,000+ in prizes across multiple categories
🤖 Sponsors include GitHub, Anthropic, Cursor, ElevenLabs, HubSpot, Lovable, Tripo AI,
WHOOP, Massachusetts AI Coalition, Offscript VC, and Maritime
🍽 Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner — all day, no cost

WHO SHOULD COME:
👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓Any currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate student
🏫All universities welcome
💻No coding experience required

You can register solo or with up to 2 teammates — we'll fill the rest of your team with our matching algorithm to keep things balanced!

EVENT DETAILS:
🗓 Date: Saturday, April 11th, 2026
⏱Time: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM
📍Check In Location: Knight Auditorium @ Babson College
‼️ Registration Link: https://babsonbuildathon.com

04/08/2026

These 2026 Imagine Cup World Finalists are out of this world! From protecting creators and reducing food waste to supporting patients in rehab, they are using AI to power solutions to better humanity. We are so excited for these student founders and their vision to make the world a better place. Congratulations! Read more about them here:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/studentdeveloperblog/introducing-the-2026-imagine-cup-world-finalists/4509670

Three startups. One stage. ✨

The 2026 Imagine Cup World Finalists are set.

What stood out this year was not just what these startups built, but how they built it.

Clarity in the problem.�Confidence in the solution.�A clear path to what comes next.

From a global pool of semifinalists, these three startups now move forward to the World Championship. Each one reflects a shift we continue to see. Student founders are building with real users in mind and creating solutions designed to scale.

Meet the finalists 👇
CopyFlag �
Revora Health�
SpoilSafe

Read the full blog to learn more about each team and what they are building: https://aka.ms/2026ImagineCupWorldFinalists

Follow along as we get closer to the World Championship 🌍

04/07/2026

To go from an AI Prompter to an API Architect, you need to understand how software communicates. In the tech world, those “handshakes” happen through APIs.

Join us for Global Hack Week: API (April 10-16)! It’s totally free, virtual, and beginner-friendly.
https://ghw.mlh.io/events/api-week

At Global Hack Week: API Week, you'll have the chance to build, explore, and learn all about APIs!