TristianSellers/Hacktober-Fest-Jam-2025

🧩 Task 01 — Add Your Showcase Profile

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#4 opened on Sep 25, 2025

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Description

🧩 Task 01 — Add Your Showcase Profile

Goal: Learn the pull-request workflow by creating your first contribution to this repository.


📋 Steps

  1. Fork this repository (top-right → “Fork”).
  2. Clone your fork locally or use GitHub’s web editor.
  3. In the /participants/ folder, copy _template.json
    and rename it to your GitHub username: participants/.json
  4. Fill in your details:
  • Name
  • Major / Field of Study
  • Favorite tech stack or language
  • A short fun fact or goal for the Jam
  1. (Optional) Create a profile card:
  • Copy _example-card.md from /showcase/cards/
  • Rename it to your GitHub username →
    showcase/cards/<github-username>.md
  • Add a short intro or photo link if you like
  1. Commit your changes and open a Pull Request titled: Add profile:
  2. Tag your PR with beginner or good first issue if available.

🎯 What You’ll Learn

  • Creating and renaming files
  • Editing JSON and Markdown
  • Writing clear commit messages
  • Opening and submitting Pull Requests

💡 Once your PR is merged, you’ll appear in the Student Showcase on the event website!

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