This guide will show how to claim GitHub Pro and JetBrains products for free using your Great Neck Students Email.
IMPORTANT You need a valid school email ending with
@student.gn.k12.ny.us.
If you have any questions, please ping Jack M on the club Discord server.
IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED YOU FOLLOW THIS GUIDE EXACTLY IF YOU HAVE NEVER USED GITHUB BEFORE
This is straightforward, you are most likely reading on the website already. If you have not go sign up for a GitHub account here.
We will be using GitHub for sharing code and also publishing our code.
For this part, please input a NON SCHOOL EMAIL. This means one of your emails that you are using. It might end in @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, etc..
Click Continue
Create your password, use a secure one.
Create a username that you like.
Note: This does not have to be your real name.
Ping me with your username on Discord!
This is your own choice.
This is a verified CAPTCHA, just do as it says.
You have to go through with validating your email.
If you did not get the following fields, head over to this page and sign up from there
You can select what you want, BUT for the ease of this guide, please sign up with the following parameters:
- How many team members will be working with you?
Just me - Are you a student or teacher?
Student
You will then be prompted with the following:
You can click on anything you want, but preferably none of them.
Click Apply for your GitHub Student benefits
Click Sign up for Student Developer Pack
Click Get student benefits
Scroll down until you see this block of information:
Click + Add an email address
You should be prompted with the following:
Please add and verify your school-issued email address in your account settings – or a contact email if you do not have one. Once your email is verified, refresh this page.
Click on add and verify... and you should be led to a page, look for this block:
Click under Add email address Add and put your SCHOOL EMAIL, which ends in @student.gn.k12.ny.us.
It will ask you to verify the account. Go to your school email and verify the account. The email looks something like the following:
Press Verify email address
Head back and make sure your school email is listed something like this:
If you lost the page, you can find it here
Scroll until you resume at this location:
Please check the one that is the HIGH SCHOOL, not the MIDDLE SCHOOL.
This is a generic answer, but you should keep it like 2-3 sentences that revolve around:
- Using it to contribute to the Great Neck Game Design Club
- Writing code and collaborating with others
- Publish code for Games developed
etc...
It isn't a college essay, but be professional.
After that, click Continue
You might be prompted by your browser to allow GitHub to use your location. You must allow for GitHub to verify the validity of your attendance at GNSHS
The next page is a page (I sadly do not have any pictures of this form) where you must submit an identification form. take a picture of your SCHOOL ID that is clear and visible on the FRONT where it has your face.
Then you should be able to press a button related to Process my application.
There are two possible results.
If you end up with a rejected, please get in touch with exoad
Let the application process in the meantime.