Helping students learn through GitHub, open source, workshops, and real-world software projects — in AI, Cloud, IoT, Blockchain, Web3, and software engineering. Open to any student, from any university, in any field.
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What is SoterCare Developers? A community of students who learn software engineering, AI, Cloud, IoT, Blockchain, and Web3 by building real things together — in the open, on GitHub.
Who is it for? Any student — any university, any year, any experience level. You do not need any connection to SoterCare's healthcare product to belong here — this community is open to anyone who wants to learn and build, full stop. You don't need to already know how to code, either. Designers, writers, organizers, and photographers are just as much a part of this as engineers.
How do I join? There's no application. Star this repo, introduce yourself in Discussions, come to an event, or open your first pull request. See JOIN.md for the full walkthrough.
What do members do? Attend and run workshops, hack at hackathons, contribute to open-source repositories, mentor newer members, and document everything we learn so the next student doesn't start from zero.
Why GitHub? Because this is where the work actually lives — our events, guides, resources, and history are version-controlled, public, and open for anyone to improve. Reading this repository is getting to know us.
SoterCare Developers is the official student developer community built by the team behind SoterCare — a student-led healthcare technology venture. This repository is entirely about the people side of that: no product code lives here, and no prior connection to SoterCare's product is required to belong here.
Our students' work on GitHub is public and countable. Every number below links to where you can check it (commit and pull request counts verified July 2026; they grow as we keep working):
| What our students have done on GitHub | Where to verify |
|---|---|
| 46 pull requests opened, 31 merged | Mobile_App (31) · web-dev-v2 (15) |
| 471 commits across two production codebases | Mobile_App (242) · web-dev-v2 (229) |
| Sustained work across multiple months, January–July 2026 | web-dev-v2 commit history |
| 6 student contributors, every one of whom opened pull requests | contributors graph |
| 41 of 46 pull requests opened by students other than the community lead — members owned the implementation | Mobile_App PRs · web-dev-v2 PRs |
The lead's own 140 commits went directly to main rather than through PRs (2 of the 46 were Copilot's) |
Mobile_App contributors (113) · web-dev-v2 contributors (27) |
| Feature-branch workflow, merge conflicts, and reverts on the main branch | web-dev-v2 commits |
Those pull requests span January 20 – March 22, 2026 and were written by students learning the workflow on real software — Daham, Hirusha, Komudi, Kaweesha, Nimna, and Sanjula. Not a tutorial repo; an app with a backend, a dashboard, and merge conflicts.
One honest caveat: most of our code review happened in person, next to each other, rather than in GitHub review threads — there are only 4 formal PR reviews across those 46 pull requests. Moving that conversation onto GitHub, where it is durable and readable by newcomers, is an explicit goal on our roadmap.
That's the honest core of how we use GitHub. Around it:
- Documentation — every guide, template, and event write-up lives in this repository, versioned and public
- Issues — event proposals, resource suggestions, workshop proposals, and
good first issuetasks for newcomers - Pull requests — how every contribution gets reviewed and merged, whether it's code, docs, or an event write-up
- Discussions — open for questions and introductions; newly opened and still quiet
- Community projects — awesome-student-resources and this repository, both maintained in the open
If you can read a README and open a pull request, you already know how to participate here.
To empower students to build meaningful, open technology by learning together, shipping real projects, and lifting each other up through mentorship and community. Full version: MISSION.md.
Our values:
- Beginners are welcome — always. Everyone's first pull request matters.
- Learning in public. We share our slides, notes, code, and mistakes.
- Ship real things. Tutorials are a start; shipping is the teacher.
- Credit generously. Every contribution — code, design, docs, organizing — gets recognized.
- Care for the community, not just the code. The people matter as much as the projects.
- 🤖 Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
- ☁️ Cloud Computing
- 📡 Internet of Things (IoT)
- ⛓️ Blockchain & Web3
- 💻 Software Engineering & Full-Stack Development
- ❤️ Open Source Collaboration
Members explore these areas through workshops, hackathons, and real contributions — not just lectures.
We run and join events year-round — workshops, hackathons, innovation challenges, and meetups. Every event has its own page in events/ with an overview, impact, gallery, and team. Landing page: EVENTS.md.
- Algorand Foundation Workshop — 100+ students trained
- Sandbox @ IIT — 100+ students across all sessions, co-organized with the AWS Student Community at IIT
- Solana Community Event
- VisioNEX Hackathon 1 & 2 — 500+ students, 40+ schools
- U.S. Delegation Visit — University of Oklahoma
- Hult Prize IIT — Finalist (Team SoterCare)
- CuttingEdge 2026 PROJEXPO IIT — 3rd Place, Best SDGP Project category
Want to propose one? Open an Event Proposal.
Community Impact so far — full numbers in the Impact Dashboard:
- 🌟 700+ students directly engaged across documented events — VisioNEX 500+ (40+ schools) · Sandbox @ IIT 100+ across all sessions (with the AWS Student Community at IIT) · Algorand Workshop 100+
- 🎓 2 hackathons hosted (VisioNEX 1 & 2) — 500+ students from 40+ schools
- 100+ students trained at the Algorand Blockchain Workshop
- 🤝 Community Partner — Nexus Spring of Code · 🌱 Ambassador & Contributor — GirlScript Summer of Code 2026
- 📚 Workshops run across AI, Cloud, and Blockchain (Algorand & Solana)
Community members have also competed in:
- 🏆 Hult Prize (Finalist) · 🥉 CuttingEdge 2026 (3rd Place, Best SDGP Project category) · 🚀 NIA Innovation Voucher Programme 2026 (Selected) · 🎯 CodeSprint 11 (Finalist)
These competition wins recognize Team SoterCare's product work, not this community directly — we list them because the same people who build this community also build that. See Impact Dashboard for the full breakdown.
📸 Community in Action — every photo links to the original post, full dated index in Media & Coverage:
More photos across every event: photos/ · Media & Coverage.
Open source is at the heart of how we learn. We participate in and run open-source programs, and we maintain beginner-friendly issues across our repositories.
We run hands-on sessions across our whole stack — grouped by track in workshops/, with slides in slides/. Landing page: WORKSHOPS.md.
- ⛓️ Blockchain — Algorand & Solana
- ☁️ Cloud · 🤖 AI · 🌐 Web3
- Developer Bootcamps · Technical Talks
New to organizing? Start with our workshop playbook. From VisioNEX to CodeSprint to the Hult Prize, full hackathon write-ups live in hackathons/ — playbook: organize a hackathon.
Curated, topic-organized guides in resources/:
- Git & GitHub · Open Source · AWS · Blockchain · AI · Beginner Resources
For a much larger curated catalog — programming languages, cloud, career prep, student programs, and more — see our sister repository: awesome-student-resources.
Real things this community has built and maintains, in the open:
- awesome-student-resources — a curated, categorized catalog of free learning resources, tools, and student opportunities, maintained by and for this community
- This repository — every guide, template, and event page here is a community-maintained open-source project in its own right
- Hackathon projects — student-built projects from VisioNEX and other hackathons we run or join
Built something as part of this community? Add it here via a pull request.
No membership, no application — see JOIN.md for the full guide. In short:
- ⭐ Star and watch this repository
- 👋 Introduce yourself in Discussions
- 🎪 Come to an event, or browse
events/for what's next - 🌱 Make your first contribution
| I want to… | Start here |
|---|---|
| Make my first contribution | First Contribution Guide |
| Contribute to projects | Contributing Guidelines |
| Speak at an event | Speaker Checklist |
| Volunteer at events | Volunteer Guide |
| Mentor other students | Become a Mentor |
| Organize a workshop or hackathon | Organizer Guides |
| Suggest an idea | Open a Community Suggestion |
Please also read our Community Guidelines and Code of Conduct — they apply to every community space.
Each partnership is documented in partners/ — landing page: PARTNERS.md.
- Nexus Spring of Code (NSoC) · Algorand Foundation · Solana Community
- GirlScript Summer of Code · IEEE · AWS Student Community at IIT · Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT)
Maintainers
| Maintainer | Role |
|---|---|
| @sanjulaonline | Community Lead |
Want to help maintain this repository? See Governance and Recognition — maintainership is earned through consistent contribution.
Reach us
- 🌐 Website · 💼 LinkedIn · 📸 Instagram ·
▶️ YouTube - 📘 Community Handbook · 📖 FAQ · 🧭 Roadmap · 🏛️ Governance
- 📊 Impact Dashboard · 🆘 Support · 🔒 Security
- 🐛 Report an issue · 💬 Discussions