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+title: "GitHub Award 2024"
+description: If you build it, they will (eventually) come. February may have been just 28 days, but it was a record-breaking month on all fronts. 🔥
+author: Sonny Li
+seoImageLink: https://i.imgur.com/J5hMA8E.jpeg
+dateCreated: 2025-03-17
+published: true
+tags:
+  - Community
+---
+
+From the GitHub Student Developer Pack partnership in 2024 to winning this award at GitHub Universe conference held in SF, this was truly a special moment for our little team. 
+
+Thank you GitHub for this recognition! 🌟
+
+#### ✅ Code Evaluation (Beta)
+
+We were invited to the GitHub Unverse 2024 held in SF.
+
+#### Unboxing Video
+
+![Node.js Course](https://i.imgur.com/hmSsAlw.gif)
+
+Node.js isn’t a library – it’s a runtime environment that allows JavaScript to run outside the browser, like a food truck that lets a chef cook anywhere instead of just in a kitchen! Highest requested course. (This is also our first Club course.)
+
+<div style={{ display: "flex", justifyContent: "center", marginBottom: "1.2rem", transform: "scale(.9)" }}>
+  <a href="https://www.codedex.io/nodejs" style={{ all: "unset" }} target="_blank" and rel="noopener noreferrer"><Button variant="yellow">View Node.js Course</Button></a>
+</div>
+
+#### 🖼 Project Showcase
+
+![Project Showcase](https://i.imgur.com/2AJvuxl.png)
+
+We redesigned our Project Showcase to feel more like a showcase (switched to a gallery-style presentation that emphasized each project’s cover image while making it clear how to filter by project tags). Added Staff Picks, too. Go and check out some projects!
+
+<div style={{ display: "flex", justifyContent: "center", marginBottom: "1.2rem", transform: "scale(.9)" }}>
+  <a href="https://www.codedex.io/community/project-showcase" style={{ all: "unset" }} target="_blank" and rel="noopener noreferrer"><Button variant="yellow">View Project Showcase</Button></a>
+</div>
+
+#### 🏆 Leaderboards: Weekly vs. All Time
+
+![Leaderboards page](https://i.imgur.com/XxKNWdM.png)
+
+Leaderboards is an entirely new addition to our on-platform community! Now, you can see who has earned the most XP (gained by completing exercises and code challenges) to create more friendly competition. It's inspired by game leaderboards (i.e. Dota 2, League).
+
+<div style={{ display: "flex", justifyContent: "center", marginBottom: "1.2rem", transform: "scale(.9)" }}>
+  <a href="https://www.codedex.io/community/leaderboards" style={{ all: "unset" }} target="_blank" and rel="noopener noreferrer"><Button variant="yellow">View Leaderboard</Button></a>
+</div>
+
+#### 🌐 Builds Sharing
+
+![Builds](https://i.imgur.com/57dpRyU.png)
+
+You can now share the HTML/CSS/JS projects that you built on Codédex with friends & family all with one click. Click [Share] and it generates a URL. Currently, the output has a Codédex watermark, but Clubbers will have the option to remove it in the future.
+
+<div style={{ display: "flex", justifyContent: "center", marginBottom: "1.2rem", transform: "scale(.9)" }}>
+  <a href="https://www.codedex.io/builds" style={{ all: "unset" }} target="_blank" and rel="noopener noreferrer"><Button variant="yellow">View Buids</Button></a>
+</div>
+
+#### 🤓 Community Redesign
+
+![Community Redesign blog](https://i.imgur.com/OFseIMe.png)
+
+We redesigned our On-Platform Community aka the OPC! Take a look into our product process, design decisions, and what’s to come. This is the first blog post by Jackie, our product design and UI/UX mastermind behind all the recent revamp.
+
+<div style={{ display: "flex", justifyContent: "center", marginBottom: "1.2rem", transform: "scale(.9)" }}>
+  <a href="https://www.codedex.io/blog/community-redesign" style={{ all: "unset" }} target="_blank" and rel="noopener noreferrer"><Button variant="yellow">Read Blog Post</Button></a>
+</div>
+
+#### Changelog - February 2025
+
+**Curriculum**
+
+- 🦠 Released [Node.js](https://www.codedex.io/nodejs) course.
+- ☕️ Published [Java Ch. 6: Methods](https://www.codedex.io/java).
+- ☕️ Published Java Bonus Article: ArrayLists.
+- ☕️ Published Java Checkpoint Projects (3).
+- 🔥 Welcomed [Julien Kris](https://www.codedex.io/@Julien) (Sr. Curriculum Dev) to full-time role. Go follow him!
+- 👋 Onboarded [Alex Kuntz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-kuntz-09) as a freelancer for Data Structures & Algorithms.
+
+
+
+#### Final Thoughts
+
+Huge kudos to the Codédex team for an insane February. 🫰 
+
+As always, my email is sonny@codedex.io if you have any feedback on the product.
+
+Sonny