Becoming a GitHub Campus Expert

Becoming a GitHub Campus Expert

Becoming a GitHub Campus Expert(GCE)

Who are GitHub Campus Experts?

Campus Experts are student leaders that strive to build diverse and inclusive spaces to learn skills, share their experiences, and build projects together. They can be found across the globe leading in-person and online conferences, meetups, and hackathons, and maintaining open source projects.

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Why should you become a Campus Expert?

The GitHub Campus Experts program would be an amazing platform for you if:

As a Campus Expert, you'll have access to GitHub Campus Experts training, resources, and support to excel in the activities you organize on your campus. You'll also get opportunities to attend GitHub's first-party events and join a global community of student leaders.

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The GitHub Campus Expert program is an amazing opportunity to help your Institution. GitHub Campus Expert is a campus expert in which you make the developer community at your institution and build the tech community at your school with training and support from GitHub

Who can apply to the program?

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There are a minimal set of requirements listed by the program that you need to fulfill. You must:

  • Be at least 18 years old

  • Have a GitHub account that is at least 6 months old

  • Be in possession of the GitHub Student Developer pack! (Apply here)

  • Be enrolled in a post-secondary institution

  • Have more than 1 year as a student before graduating

  • Not be enrolled in the GitHub Campus Advisors Program

Benefits of becoming a GitHub Campus Expert

With the GitHub Campus Experts training, you'll learn technical and professional skills like public speaking, technical writing, community leadership, and software development—that will help you build a strong technical community, teach valuable skills, create new opportunities for your student community, and position .

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Training from GitHub - learn technical and professional skills like public speaking, technical writing, community leadership, and software development

Support to bring your community plans to life in the form of swags/prizes for your events and handling travel expenses for in-person events

Access to speaking opportunities and GitHub events

Be part of an extensive community of Campus Experts from around the world And yes, amazing swag!

The Application process

Applications to the GitHub Campus Experts program opens twice a year - in February and August. You'll get about 2-3 weeks to submit your application.

Step 1: Complete the application form

The application form consists of some basic details you'll need to fill and 3 essay prompts to answer. The essay responses are meant for GitHub to understand who you are and what problems you are trying to solve for your community.

  • My suggestion would be for you to make sure you address the following in your essays:

  • Define who your community is. Who are the students who comprise your community?

  • Mention whether you are building a community or growing an existing one.

  • Talk about the struggles you face as a community. Outline how it hampers students from learning or achieving their goals.

  • Detail what the status quo is in your community. In what ways do they cope with these struggles?

  • Describe how the program will aid you in growing your community. This is important especially if you are part of multiple programs. It'd help to describe how GitHub Campus Experts, in specific, will support you with your community goals.

  • Discuss why you think inclusivity and diversity is paramount in your community. It's a great idea if you could even elaborate on ways in which you can achieve your diversity & inclusion goals.

Here's an excerpt from GitHub's own blog about the program, that talks about 4 key things they look for in applicants:

  1. Motivation: What makes you tick? What drives you?
  2. Interest: Why do you want to be part of the program?
  3. Growth and potential: What kind of skills do you want to learn, and how will they help you grow personally and professionally?
  4. Contribution: What kind of an impact do you want to make on your campus?

Step 2: Submit a video resume

You will be notified via email at the end of the review if GitHub would like to move forward with your application. You'll then be invited to submit a video resume - a simple video of you talking about yourself, your community and your visions for the community.

The team would like to get to know you on a closer level through the video, so feel free to be yourself and be comfortable while recording your video. You'll have to submit the video resume in 2 weeks time. It takes about a week to review the videos. You'll be notified via email if you make it through.

Step 3: Welcome to the Program!

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If you've made it this far, then congrats! You'll now be going through the Campus Experts training program. The training is one of my favorite parts of the program and the process. The value it brings to student leaders is fantastic!

In a span of 6 weeks, the selected Experts will go through a series of modules. They cover a range of skills - such as technical, professional and community building - that will set you up for success as a student community leader.

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