Thank you all for your thoughtful feedback. We’ve heard you and we sincerely apologize for the confusion. Submissions will remain open until Monday, May 25th midnight. Unfortunately, we have reached capacity for our Tier 2 swag requests and cannot continue to offer that as of today. However, all submissions are eligible to receive Tier 1 swag and have projects reviewed for the ceremony. Submit your projects, join the yearbook, and participate in the event!

The swag request form link has changed.

❤️ The GitHub Education Team

New submissions to the year book are now closed (2:30 PM PDT). Those who have already submitted a pull request, is on review or pending changes you can still get added to the yearbook by submitted those changes in the pull request you already have (without creating a new PR). Don’t worry, you can still attend the event! git remote < graduation > is happening on June 15th 9:00 PDT | 21:30 IST at twitch.tv/githubeducation 🥳 🎓

You all have been incredible offering to help review, supporting each other in contributing to the graduation repository, and coming up with the most creative yearbook quotes 😂 We are blown away by the kindness of our community 🙌 and can’t wait to celebrate with all of you wonderful humans

❤️ The GitHub Education Team

This repository contains the yearbook of the $ git remote < graduation > event. By issuing a pull request to this repository, you can request to be added to the Class of 2020.

Consider that all the information that you add to this repository will be publicly available.

• If you don't feel comfortable with displaying your full name, you can include a short name or nickname instead.
• If you don't want to add a profile picture to the yearbook, you can use your university crest, or build an octocat and use it as your avatar instead.

Tiers reward the effort graduates make for this celebration. By adding yourself to the yearbook and writing a post on DEV, you will get access to extra benefits. Make sure you submit your pull request before midnight Monday, May 25th PDT.

• Tier 1 ✉: Add yourself to the Yearbook by submitting a pull request to this repository and filling the swag shipping form.

• Tier 2 🛍: Follow the steps on Tier 1 and write a post on DEV about a project you've built while being a student. You can use this template to get started!

• Tier 3 🏅: The best project posts on DEV will be highlighted live on stream during the graduation.

Any higher education student that has or will graduate in 2020 can apply to the yearbook.

• Non-Traditional Education (Bootcamps, Codecamps, Hacker Schools, etc)
• High School Graduates
• College Graduates
• Master's Graduates
• Ph.D. Graduates

Replace <YOUR-USERNAME> with your GitHub username in this guide.

Fork this repository, create a new folder inside the _data folder, and name it with your username. It should look something like this _data/<YOUR-USERNAME>/. Ex.

_data/MonaTheOctocat/

Enter the folder you just created and add a profile picture of your choice. Accepted files are png and jpg, should be squared and minimum size 544x544 pixels. Ex.

_data/MonaTheOctocat/mona.png

Be aware, this picture will be displayed on the yearbook!

Create a markdown file in your folder following the convention <YOUR-USERNAME>.md. Ex.

_data/MonaTheOctocat/MonaTheOctocat.md

Copy the next template into your file, delete the boilerplate data and fill the information with yours.

---
name: FULLNAME-OR-NICKNAME # No longer than 28 characters
institution: INSTITUTION-NAME 🚩 # no longer than 58 characters
profile_pic: mona.png # Name and extension of your profile picture(ex. mona.png) The picture must be squared and 544px on width and height.
quote: YOUR-SENIOR-QUOTE # no longer than 100 characters, avoid using quotes(") to guarantee the format remains the same.
github_user: YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME
---

Do not use special characters in the template above.

Fill a swag shipment form and submit your Pull Request.

Go through the checklist on the pull request template to guarantee your submission is valid. The GitHub Education team will review your application, approve and merge your submission if everything is correct. Otherwise, you will get notified of the changes requested on the pull request comment section.

Don't forget to watch the livestream!

• 📆 Monday, June 15th 2020
• ⏰ 9:00 PDT | 21:30 IST
• 📍 GitHub Education Twitch Channel
• 📎 Add the event to your calendar.