GitHub Education

We’re proud to share that one of our Campus Experts trainees is making headlines. Rectify Learn, a student-led edtech startup, was recently featured in The Daily Star for joining four global startup hubs: Microsoft for Startups, GitHub for Startups, Notion for Startups, and Miro for Startups. This milestone is a testament to the commitment, skill, and collaboration of our Campus Experts trainees, who continue to drive innovation and build real-world solutions. Congratulations to the Rectify Learn team on this well-deserved recognition. Read more: gh.io/AAwbu5n

The GitHub Copilot Global Bootcamp is back — this time with online and in-person workshops happening around the world 😻 From São Paulo to Fukuoka (June 17 to 28), developers are coming together to explore how GitHub Copilot Chat and AI-powered coding are transforming the way we build software using Visual Studio Code. 📅 Virtual sessions: Portuguese: June 24 & 26 – 7 PM (UTC-3 Brasília) English: July 8 & 10 – 9AM PT | 12PM ET Spanish: July 8 & 10 – 11AM PT | 12PM CDMX | 2PM ET | 8PM CET ✨ And at the end of the series, you can apply your skills to earn the Microsoft Applied Skills credential in GitHub Copilot — completely free. 🔗 Register now: https://lnkd.in/gThesY4v #GitHubCopilot #VSCode 

🚨 Incoming live demo! Wed May 28 (1 :30 pm ET / 10:30 am PT / 19:30 CET / 11:00pm IST) on Twitch with New Relic + OpenTelemetry maintainer Reese Lee. Run the Astro Shop app & analyse telemetry live. Students get New Relic Pro free (worth 300$/month) via the GitHub Student Developer Pack! 🔗twitch.tv/githubeducation

Level-up student projects with the new GitHub Copilot coding agent The best learning happens when developers can focus on design and logic—not wiring up CI or refactoring boilerplate. Our new coding agent turns Copilot into a full teammate that does exactly that. How it works • Assign an issue in GitHub (or ask in VS Code) • The agent spins up a secure, customizable Actions VM • It analyses the repo with RAG + Model Context Protocol, writes code, tests, and docs • Commits land in a draft PR you can inspect line-by-line • Existing branch protections & review rules stay intact—no code merges without a human 👍 Early trials show the agent excels at low-to-medium complexity tasks—perfect for coursework, hackathons, and research prototypes—while giving students clear logs that reveal its reasoning step-by-step. Copilot coding agent is available today for Copilot Enterprise and Copilot Pro+ users, with IDE support extending to VS Code, Xcode, Eclipse, JetBrains, and Visual Studio. 🔗 Dive into the full announcement to see setup tips, security defaults, and classroom-ready examples: https://lnkd.in/d3dxS9a2

Maintainers are the steady hands behind every open-source innovation. During this Maintainer Month we asked MLH Fellowship mentors to nominate projects where student Fellows made measurable impact. Consul .NET — 14 pull requests merged and API docs revitalised, boosting productivity for .NET developers. GR-OSS security audits — Fellow Nima Fallah reviewed 21 repositories and opened 188 security issues, giving maintainers a clear, data-driven roadmap to harden their code. AudioSeal / VideoSeal — Fellow Ayush Bhardwaj trained a new audio-watermark network and helped extend the technique to video, protecting AI-generated content. See how mentorship keeps the open-source ecosystem healthy and learn how you can get involved: gh.io/AAwbu5g

Excited to have delivered a talk at Polytechnic University of the Philippines' 7th Software Engineering Day 2025 on May 6. Major thanks to GitHub and GitHub Education for sponsoring 100x fully-discounted GitHub Certification Exam Vouchers. Catch the live stream on Facebook: https://lnkd.in/gMKmYe-a Check the slides on Canva: https://lnkd.in/giiMZwiW

GitHub Copilot now has a coding agent embedded right where you already collaborate with developers: on GitHub. And yes, you can access it from VS Code too. 🤖 When you assign one or more issues to Copilot, it responds with a 👀 reaction and spins up a secure sandbox using GitHub Actions. It clones the repo, configures the environment, and analyzes the codebase with RAG powered by GitHub code search. The coding agent can use local tools and MCP servers, configured by you. As the agent works, it regularly commits its changes to a draft pull request and updates the pull request’s description. It can only push to its own branch, while existing policies like branch protection still apply in exactly the way you’d expect. And of course, nothing goes out without human approval – because the human developer is always the one in control. Using state-of-the-art models, the agent excels at low-to-medium complexity tasks in well-tested codebases, from adding features and fixing bugs to extending tests, refactoring code, and improving documentation. This is all about keeping you in the magical flow state that inspired your love for coding in the first place ✨ Built around an integrated, secure and fully customizable development environment powered by GitHub Actions, the Copilot coding agent is amplifying human developers with trust by design. And these protections aren’t just for us: as the new home of AI agents, we’re making the same primitives available to partners to ensure an open ecosystem for agentic peer programming. https://lnkd.in/et-K4-S6

Last week for Microsoft AI Skills Fest — it closes on 28 May 2025. Since 8 April, thousands of learners have explored 50 days of free AI content. You still have time to: - Prototype multi-agent apps in the Azure AI Foundry track - Try the Treasure Hunt to sharpen your prompt engineering - Bring AI into the classroom with the Teaching Toolkit - Fast-track the DP-700 Fabric Data Engineer certification Why wrap it up now? - Every module is free and open to all levels. - A pool of 50 000 free exam vouchers and partner discounts is still available. - A closing celebration runs during Microsoft Build, 19–28 May. (build.microsoft.com) Finish a learning path or register here: https://lnkd.in/dzakhTKa

Think Copilot stops at autocomplete? Meet Agent Mode, your AI partner that edits every file, runs terminal commands, and orchestrates tests—all from a single prompt. In Day 3 of our FREE two-week Master Class (May 12–26) we’re showcasing cross-disciplinary examples: • Technical writers bulk-rewrite docs • PMs triage issues & generate release notes • Data teams automate CSV cleansing & visualization Join today’s session, experiment in VS Code, and share your first “Agent save” with the community. Let’s turn busywork into brainwork. 🔗 https://gh.io/AAw5u3t

Embarking on your coding adventure? Aiming to land a career in tech? Begin with GitHub Skills’ Introduction to GitHub to master version control and collaboration. Then, dive into coding with Visual Studio Code for Education’s beginner courses in 🐍 Python and 🌐 Web Development. Combine the power of GitHub and VS Code to build, manage, and share your projects seamlessly. 🔗 Explore GitHub Skills: gh.io/skills 🔗 Discover VS Code for Education: vscodeedu.com