A hands-on 45-minute workshop where attendees clone a shared GitLab repo, create a branch, add their handle to a shared file, and push through a merge request workflow. All contributions are then fed into a word cloud generator that renders every participant handle into a single visual displayed for the room. Built for anyone who has avoided Git for too long, students, career changers, and security professionals alike will walk away with practical exposure to cloning, branching, committing, and merge requests in a context they actually lived through.

This workshop uses a live GitLab repository where attendees add their handle to a shared text file. At the end of the session, the file is fed into a word cloud generator that renders all contributor handles into a visual displayed for the room. Every participant can see their name in the final output, making the result of the collaborative workflow tangible and memorable.