If you are a student and trying to explore different fields in tech to learn and enhance your skills, there is no alternative to having a hands-on experience. But most of the students cannot afford the cost of real-world tools. Anyways no worries, the Student Developer pack offered by GitHub gives free access to some of the best developer tools available on the internet.

What can I do with the pack?

Go to the Github education website and look at the tools available in the pack. There are subscriptions and discounts to many awesome tools like Canva, Adafruit, Digital Ocean, etc. For example, if you are learning graphic designing there is a free 12month subscription to Canva which costs around 4000 INR if you have to buy.

If you're not sure of what to learn, see what other student developers are building with the help of the developer pack. Click here

Why should I apply

With the student developer pack, get benefits worth $200k for free! even if you won't use all of them you are free to use any tool without any fear of expenses. So, why not?

To qualify for student benefits, you must:

• Be currently enrolled in a degree or diploma-granting course of study such as a high school, secondary school, college, university, homeschool, or similar educational institution.
• Have a student email or proof of current student status like an id card.
• Have a GitHub user account and should be using it for more than 6 months.
• Be at least 13 years old.

Note: Student email is not mandatory but it makes your application process faster.

Get the pack

If you are eligible to get the pack, join today using your school-issued email, student ID, or other proof of current academic enrollment. click here

Steps:

1. Click on Get your pack at the above-provided website.
2. Then tap on the Student benefits and log in with a GitHub account, an application appears.
3. Fill the application with valid details and make sure to upload your id proof which has your graduating year if you're not using a student email id.

Your application may be processed within a few minutes or days according to convenience. Once you get the pack you can access all the tools mentioned on the website by linking them with your GitHub account.

Myth busters

• You don't have to be a CS student to apply for this.
• You can be a student of any degree or diploma-granting course.
• If your plan has expired you can apply again as long as you are a student.

My opinion

The pack can bring a great impact on a student's life because not just learning through books or online courses, with this you can make your hands dirty and try out different fields like cloud, IoT, API's whose tools are very expensive. I feel blessed to have such an awesome opportunity to learn.

So, what are you waiting for? Go get your GitHub Student Developer Pack.