wtf is badgeup?

BadgeUp is a curated, community maintained list of conferences that undergraduate students can actually attend, no matter what they are majoring in. It was started by Jose Cruz to solve a specific problem: most conference roundups assume you already have a travel budget and a badge, but this one is built for students who do not. The list is organized by major, covering tech and computing, business and finance, engineering, health and medicine, sciences and research, social sciences and policy, law and government, arts and humanities, education, and general multidisciplinary events. There is also a section grouped by community, listing conferences aimed at women, Black professionals and students, Latinx professionals and students, and LGBTQ+ people in their field, regardless of major. Each conference entry is tagged with a status showing whether registration or scholarship applications are open now, closing soon, or not yet open for the next cycle. Entries also show how a student can afford to attend: free, through a scholarship or travel grant, or paid with student pricing noted where it exists. Audience tags mark who each event is geared toward, such as students, early career professionals, first-generation students, or grad students, though every conference listed welcomes undergrads. Examples in the tech and computing section include GitHub Universe, the Grace Hopper Celebration, the ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, KubeCon, AWS re:Invent, and the IBM Quantum Developer Conference, each listed with its dates, location, cost type, and a direct link to register or apply. Anyone can contribute in about a minute by opening an issue with a conference URL, which a maintainer then reviews and adds to the list. Because deadlines and scholarship rules change often, the project reminds readers to confirm details on each conference's own official site before making travel plans. The full README is longer than what was shown.