Join \;the Upskilling Labs for workshops that accompany their peer-led experiential learning programming\ , where you can joing a project group and build something you care about w ith emerging technologies. Find the full slate of The Upskilling Labs' eve nts on their Luma page.
\nAbout the Workshop: \;This session is a hands-on introduction to GitHub for people who work on community projects &mdash\; whether that means organizing events\, man aging shared documents\, coordinating coding projects\, or tracking import ant resources. You don't need any coding experience. We'll cover what GitH ub actually is (and isn't)\, how to create a repository for your project\, how to use issues and project boards to track tasks\, and how to invite c ollaborators so your whole team can contribute. By the end\, you'll have a working project set up that you can take back to your organization.
\n​About the Instructor: \;Aaron McKeever is a recent graduate of Columbia University\, where he studied information sc ience and specialized in computational linguistics. At Columbia\, he worke d as a research assistant and project lead across multiple teams\, using t ools such as GitHub\, Python\, and Linear to manage shared projects\, trac k contributions\, and coordinate work with remote collaborators. His perso nal research project &mdash\; a digital history of early 20th-century indu strial networks spanning the US\, UK\, and Germany &mdash\; uses GitHub to manage key data files and sub-projects. Additionally\, his work includes serving as a deputy board UX/UI designer and training lead on the Columbia Daily Spectator product team. Before Columbia\, Aaron spent a year in Ger many as a U.S. Department of State CBYX-Y scholarship recipient\, and he c urrently works as an administrative and research professional in Washingto n\, DC.
\nAbo ut the Workshop: \;You've learned to commit and push your own work. But what happens when your code becomes someone else's starting poi nt? In this 90-minute\, hands-on session\, you'll work in pairs to run a c omplete team handoff: one partner builds a simple personal web page using an AI builder and ships it to GitHub\, and the other pulls it down\, makes changes on a branch\, and sends it back through a Pull Request &mdash\; w ithout anyone breaking anything. It's the exact workflow your build-cycle team will live in\, practiced once with training wheels on.
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