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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!

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Welcome to Hack Club

We are 23,811 teen hackers
from around the world who code together

Join our community
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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.

Hack Clubbers at SpaceX HQ in LA
Hack Clubbers at SpaceX HQ in LA
Hack Clubbers at SpaceX HQ in LA
Hack Clubbers at SpaceX HQ in LA
Map of Hack Clubs around the world
Map of Hack Clubs around the world
  • 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 400+ 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!

Wonderland

Boston, MA
February 23-25th

Only when we limit ourselves... do we become truly free.

How would you and your friends use a 🥕 carrot or a 🧸 stuffed animal in a hackathon project? In Wonderland, you'll explore 🧰 chests of random objects and software that you'll incorporate into hackathon projects.

Start A Hack Club
Get $100 In Pizza

GitHub is providing $100 pizza grants to every teen who starts a Hack Club at their school.

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Slack AMA

Our Online Community

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

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

Mar 22nd 10:0011:00 PM

AMA w/ Apple Engineers

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Mar 23rd 3:004:00 PM

AMA w/ Cleo Abram

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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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OnBoard

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Circuit boards are magical. You design one, we'll print it. Completely for free! Get a $100 grant to fuel the creation of your dream project with OnBoard.

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.

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 397 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.

Splatter Paint

Crazy colorful splatter paint in your browser with Paper.js
Splatter Paint demo

Particle Physics

Create a particle physics simulation and with p5.js
Particle Physics demo

Find your IRL community.

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

Summer Creek Hack Club meeting, February 2020

A Network of 400+ 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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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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Find your second home at Hack Club

Join Our Slack

Connect with other technical teenagers on Slack and hack on things together.

Explore Our Open Source Tools

We’re currently building a game engine, daily streak system, graphing game, and more!

Start A Club

Build an in-person community of high school hackers, and we’re here to help.

Join the newsletter

We'll send you an email no more than once a month, when we work on something cool for you. Check out our previous issues.

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