July / August / Mid-September Update 
HI EVERYONE! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? It feels so good to be back! 
So what’s been going on for the presidency? A LOT, actually!
This month’s video
BOOM! The last poll’s most popular answer was ‘I play your games’, so here it is: I play most of Sprite Stars first round of games! 
It was so cool getting to talk with @robotosaurus and @UnsignedArduino live while totally not being scared of these games. This video was so much fun to make, and I can’t wait to make more : D I hope you enjoy watching all (wow, 43 minutes? that’s very long for my videos) of it as much as I enjoyed playing the games.
The video-making itself was a bit of a quest:
I streamed this on a very low quality computer → Twitch (not my computer) recorded it → My first stream of non-sprite stars games got deleted → I edited this one in twitch’s ‘highlight’ feature which ended up cutting the clips weird → I screen recorded that since it wouldn’t let me export the video → I edited the recording again in capcut
BUT HEY, it’s finally real and that’s what counts 
Livestreaming
As you might be able to tell from the video, I AM ABLE TO LIVESTREAM NOW!!! 
You all were right, it is so. much. fun! I like getting to talk to people while I play and talk more openly to an audience rather than feeling like I’m talking to myself or reading a script. It makes for some funny moments 
And a note, I won’t be giving out the link to the twitch channel to abide by the rules of the forum. You either find me or you don’t, sorry! 
And in other good news, I will no longer have to stream on a computer so bad it can’t run minecraft anymore, because I finally got my new work laptop!
Work where, you (didn’t) ask?
Hack Club
I now work as a team member for the nonprofit Hack Club, with the goal of running programs to get more teens into making things! 
I mention this because (of course, knowing me) I would love to include MakeCoders in these programs :0
As a start to this, my first ever program POTLUCK ran a few weeks ago!
7 people, including 3 MakeCoders (@WoofWoof , @Astro , and @minecraftcoder17 ) made games and got CUSTOM MERCH of their game in return!
Everyone in the program recieves merch of every game, so all 7 participants are getting Astro’s BlackHeart print, Woofy’s Cubicle sticker, and MinecraftCoder17’s Graivity Wizard sticker 
The art I made for those is below but those three aren’t supposed to see them until they arrive, so DON’T CLICK THESE if you’re Woofy, Astro, or MinecraftCoder17!
I didn't do potluck and I want to see the art
I lied I'm woofy
WOOFY how dare you I thought you had more self control than this
I lied I'm astro
Of course 
get back to developing that amazing game
I lied I'm minecraftcoder17
Switches your gravity
Plus, astro’s gam-
Hack Club part 2: Astro is Awesome
-woah hey, don’t move onto the next section yet, I wasn’t done talking 
@Astro 's game BlackHeart REALLY impressed everyone over here at Hack Club! It was selected as one of the most impressive projects of the week with people saying it was ‘super impressive for such a short program’ and ‘really cool’ as they played it live for everyone 
As a thank you they’re also getting extra goodies with their merch to show my appreciation 
Here’s a photorealistic recreation of everyone loving the game
p. s. this is not an endorsement of Astro as president
The election
Oh yeah, we’re voting on a new president!
I’m so impressed @redSprite pulled together so many talented candidates this year, it is such an amazing feeling to know someone’s taking over the role and that so many people could see themselves improving our community. As a reminder, I’m not endorsing any candidate but I HIGHLY reccomend you take a lot of care to read all of the candidate’s speeches and cast your vote 
Everything else that’s in progress
I’ve got a lot cooking,
- I’ll be testing Hebes with the new Makecode-To-Exe update soon to make more progress on porting it to Steam
- I will of course be streaming again soon! I will set up a set schedule as soon as I have time to stream again.
- The Transparency extension is still being maintained and updated, with version 3 planned! It’s more of a long-term goal, but I’d love to get it on the built-in extension list someday, when it’s polished enough.
- Very soon I’ll also be launching the second hack club project I’ve worked on called ‘TERRA’! I’ll send more details when it’s not so top-secret and when I get more confirmation of MakeCode’s role in the program, but the gist is you get a free Laptop for coding by playing a video game
- And of course, I’ll have to say my goodbye to the presidency very soon
I can’t get mushy yet, that’s for the final post…
And now, a poll
But not in the form of a vote-- it’s a question that I think sincerely needs answering through the wisdom of a crowd;
What advice would YOU give to the next MakeCode president?
I’m excited to see your answers, and stream again, and host my next hackclub event, and code mo- okay, okay, the post’s long enough