Software Setup

Our team has been using GitHub for years as a storage solution and collaboration tool for the code we write for our robots, websites and apps. We recently decided to expand our usage of GitHub to use their project planning functionality to track progress on our goals with our teams.

If you do not have an account, go to github.com and click sign up. We recommend entering your personal E-mail as many people need this account later in their engineering careers.

Enter a password, then a username (ex. OscarJorgenson), and verify that you are human.

You are now in and will need to change your display name (profile icon -> settings -> public profile -> name) to your first name (ex. Oscar, James B).

Finally, message Mr. Hiller your username. Your invite will come via email. Once you are in the Nichols org, the functionality we are using for project management is the "projects" feature.

Note: when the projects tab is clicked, it will by default go to recently viewed, but this isn't useful for those who haven't viewed anything yet. Click on "projects" to see everything. If you want to, look around at what we have so far. These are the projects we plan on working on this summer, and they are all labeled by skillset, so you can play to your strengths. We encourage you to add your name to things, or if you see a task missing, add it altogether.