Good post , can tell its introductory and I am glad @delta1512 dropped a url with most of the info , there are a few websites beyond www.gridcoin.us , there is gridcoin.network , gridcoin.science , gridcoin.ddns.net and https://grcexplorer.neuralminer.io/network and I think the list goes on. There is a faucet channel on the Gridcoin discord in #wallet-bot and there is a 3hr faucet android application available on the play store. There are many resources , welcome to the team. Some of those tools are handy , like discord has !help and if you are new and instead of syncing all the way up to 1308102 from 0 you can use the command on discord and on frenode irc in #gridcoin !snapshot and get the latest snapshot of the network to speed things up.