A Home for High School Hackers – Hack Club

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Hack Clubbers gather in the great outdoors of Cabot, VT, for an experience unlike any other: Outernet. 📸 Photo by Matt Gleich, Hack Clubber in NH!

Get up to $400 to make a hardware project! Design a project and get a grant to make it real with Blueprint, Hack Club's largest hardware program

Welcome to Hack Club

We are teen hackers
from around the world who code together

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Discover the joy of code, together.

Every day, thousands of Hack Clubbers gather online and in-person to make things with code. Whether you're a beginner programmer or have years of experience, there's a place for you at Hack Club. Read about our hacker ethic.

  • Connect with other teenage codersHave a coding question? Looking for project feedback? You'll find hundreds of fabulous people to talk to in our global Slack (like Discord), active at all hours.

  • Build open source learning toolsWe build large open source projects together (3k+ PRs a year) like this website, a game engine, daily streak system, and more!

  • Gather IRL with other makersMeet other Hack Clubbers in your community to build together at one of the 1000+ Hack Clubs and high school hackathons.

Here are a few projects you could get involved in:

Connect with builders from around the world

We gather both online and in-person to share our love of code and make things together!

Aces

Create a digital version of a card game or board game, get a grant to build it irl and win prizes! Then, get a free trip to AwesomeCon in Washington DC to show off your game, and take place in a 48 hour hackathon to improve your game based off feedback

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Make games, build houses, and get prizes like
a flight to a game jam in Singapore!

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4-day hackathon in Orlando, Florida

w/ a FREE visit to NASA and Universal Studios!

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Blueprint

Design a Hardware project and get up to $400 to make it real!

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Our Online Community

Coding doesn’t have to be a solitary activity. At Hack Club, we make remarkable things together, and in our Slack you’ll find awesome people to hang out with too. Code together, find your programming community, dream up something wild, or just #lounge.

Occasionally we invite someone we really want to speak to (like Sal Khan, George Hotz, and Lady Ada) and host an AMA with them.

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Get Pizza for Every Project

GitHub is providing pizza grants to every teen who starts a Hack Club at their school.

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We build open source games and tools together

In collaboration with engineers on the Hack Club team, Hack Clubbers build learning tools for each other. Get involved with these projects by building something with our tools or contribute to the tools themselves.

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Sprig

Draw, make music, and craft games in our web-based JavaScript game editor, which has been used by 7k+ makers around the world.

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Blot

Blot is an open source drawing machine and online editor, designed to be a fun and beginner friendly introduction to digital fabrication and generative art.

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Sinerider

SineRider is a game about love and graphing, powered by teenage hackers of all kinds: artists, musicians, programmers, storytellers… so if that’s you, come join us! We can always use help keeping everything up to date and running smoothly.

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Join the other 874 teenagers with Sprigs!

Sprig console

Play your own Sprig games on this console, which you can assemble and disassemble. Each kit includes parts needed for getting started with hardware engineering and embedded systems programming.

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Workshops

100+ community-contributed, self-guided coding tutorials and ideas. Learn to code by building, one project at a time.

Find your IRL community.

Thousands of Hack Clubbers organize and participate in hackathons and after school coding clubs.

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A Network of 1000+ Coding Clubs

Join or start a Hack Club and be part of a network of high quality coding clubs where you learn to code entirely through building things.

You can start with no experience and build and ship a project every meeting.

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High School Hackathons

We support the largest network of high school hackathons in the world. From an online community of organizers to free stickers and more!

Upcoming Hackathons

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💰 $51,828,758.43 raised

HCB

Become a 501(c)3 nonprofit and join 700+ teams using HCB to run world-class events.

This platform is built and maintained by the Hack Club team.

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