Introduction
If you are a student in a accredited university or college and you are aged 13 or older, Then you are eligible to get Github Student Pack. Github Student Pack gives many paid developer tools for free of charge. This is actually a GiftHub for students.
Last Checked : 16th September 2017
Softwares/Services Included In This Pack
- Atom – Open Source by GitHub, free for everyone
- Amazon Web Services – Student Developer Pack members receive up to $110 in bonus AWS credits for a total of $75-$150
- Bitnami – Business 3 plan (normally $49/month) free for one year
- Cart – Free account upgrades with increased database storage, real time data, Location Data Services Credits, and premium features for 2 years.
- Crowd Flower – Access to the Crowdflower platform
- DataDog – Pro Account, including 10 servers. Free for 2 years.
- DigitalOcean – $50 in platform credit for new users
- Flatiron School – Free one-month membership ($149 value) to Community-Powered Bootcamp: a proven online Web Development course with a curated community of learners.
- GitHub – Unlimited private repositories (normally $7/month) while you are a student.
- GitKraken – GitKraken Pro account for 1 user. Free for 1 year (normally $60/year).
- HackHands – $25 in platform credit
- Microsoft Imagine – Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio Community 2015 and the rest of the Microsoft developer tools while you’re a student
- NameCheap – One year SSL certificate (normally $9/year) and One year domain name registration on the .me TLD (normally $18.99/year).
- SendGrid – Student plan 15K free emails/month (normally limited to 200 free emails/day) while you’re a student
- Sentry – 500,000 events/month with unlimited projects and members while you’re a student.
- stripe – Waived transaction fees on first $1000 in revenue processed.
- Taplytics – Complete access to the suite of tools for native mobile apps. Unlimited access to the platform free for 6 months.
- ThinkFul – One month of access to a web development course that will get you started with HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and developer tools. Includes access to online office hours with experienced developers for feedback on your work and help when you need it.
- Transifex – One year free of the Starter plan, a $99/month value. Get 50,000 hosted words, unlimited projects, and access to translation partners to bring your software to a global market from the start.
- Travis CI – Private builds (normally $69/month) while you’re a student.
- UnrealEngine – Unreal Engine while you’re a student
How to Radeem Github Student Pack
To redeem this pack you need image of your school ID, academic transcript, or any other proof of affiliation or valid email from your college/university to verify your academic status.
Step 1: Go to https://education.github.com/pack
Step 2: Click On GET YOUR PACK
Step 3: If you have a github account you need to sign in or you need to create an account.
Step 4: After you have successfully authenticated, Click On Yes, I’m a Student.
Step 5: Then you will get a form. If you have valid email which is provided by your college, Then you have to ADD THAT EMAIL to your github before you fill up that form. After you have added that email to your account Please refresh that page.
Step 6: On that form – Verify academic status section, Select your school-issued email address: field select your college email. Or if you don’t have college email select “I don’t have a school-issued email”. Then you will get a field to upload your school ID, academic transcript, or any other proof of affiliation. And the fill up rest of the fields.
Step 7: Click Submit Your Request.
If You Verified Your Academic Status By Email. You Will Get Confirmation Email Instantly. It will take sometime to verify your academic status using the documents which you provided. But not grater that 5 days!
Good Luck! Please Do Not Misuse This Golden Opportunity.