Hello, October!

Here’s a recap of what September brought to The Homeschooler’s Chat. This includes everything from minor changes to big updates. Let’s dive in!

📌 Jump To:

• Website Updates
• Server Updates
• This Month’s Art Prompt
• This Month’s Other Events

🌐 Website Updates

• Added Our Calendar for easy event viewing
• Added Mental Health Resources (September Event)
• Combined Parent info, guidelines, Discord safety, and FAQ into one page

Resources

• Added Free Programming Books to Coding Resources
• Added Exercism to Coding Resources
• Added roadmap.sh to Coding Resources

Thank you, Max for finding these resources! 💚

💚 Server Updates

• Staff DMs are now closed
• Live events are now transcribed for accessibility
• Updated #📬｜report to make reporting easier
• DMs have been disabled for the server
• Added #🖼｜photography-prompts and the @Photo Fans role
• Copper and Bronze rank image limits added
• The study system got a reboot and refresh
• Completed XP system transfer
• Added /blog command to view blog posts
• New Geotastic ping role added
• Emojis added to the beginning of each channel name
• All resources are now kept under the /resources command

🎨 Art Challenge Prompt: Skeletons

The topic of this month’s art challenge is skeletons! Your challenge is to create a piece of art about or including skeletons. All submissions must be HSRC appropriate of course, meaning no gore or disturbing imagery, just some fun spooky vibes!

Get your brain going with these concepts:

• A favorite character in a skeleton Halloween costume
• A skeleton character from your favorite video game or movie
• Several skeletons having a party

✔ DO submit

• A single still image, GIF, or animation (30 seconds or less)
• Artwork that is 100% your own
• Art created with this prompt in mind
• Traditional art, digital art, or a craft submitted as a clear photo

✖ DON’T submit

• Work that is not 100% your own
• Traced or copied artwork
• AI generated art
• Art created BEFORE this prompt
• Graphic or disturbing content

To submit an art piece, simply post it in the ⁠#monthly-art-challenge channel within our Discord before October 25th, 2024!

🚨 Worried you’ll forget?

We’ve got you covered! The @Art Crowd role in our Discord server will get a reminder ping when there are 10 days left in the challenge.

October’s other events

• Productivity Session – October 2nd
• Geotastic – October 5th
• Productivity Session – October 9th
• Dress To Impress – October 11th
• Game Night – October 12th
• Productivity Session – October 16th
• Royale High – October 19th
• Productivity Session – October 23rd
• Game Night – October 26th
• Art Challenge Submissions Due – October 24th
• Productivity Session – October 30th

More events are always being added to the schedule, so be sure to tune in on our Discord server for more. We look forward to seeing you around The Homeschooler’s Chat!