Hack Club has given away $100,000s of Framework Laptops, 3D printers, and Raspberry Pis in the past year. We host dozens of really cool, unique hackathons on trains and in forests for free.
Hack Clubbers provide free website and Discord bot hosting with SSH access and send tens of thousands of messages every day helping each other on their projects in the Hack Club Slack.
Need a little more persuasion?
Outernet (2023)
The Congressional App Challenge
The Congressional App Challenge
The Congressional App Challenge (CAC) is a nationwide coding competition for middle and high school students in the United States.
Winners from each congressional district are invited to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., for the annual #HouseOfCode event, where they showcase their apps to lawmakers and the tech community.
The competition is open to students of all skill levels and encourages creativity and innovation from participants.
Join us as you work on your Congressional App Challenge project.
Here are a few projects you could get involved in:
Get free stuff
Dozens of teen-led hardware and software initiatives ('You Ship, We Ship') are run each year, from Tamagotchi clones and portable game consoles to 3D websites. The best part? It's all free, and completely open source.
Ever wanted to learn how to design your own PCB? How about building a website in exchange for a boba or frappuccino? Or, have you been thinking about publishing your Congressional App Challenge submission on the App Store, but are worried about paying the publishing fee? We've got you covered.
Go on — build that project you've always wanted to.
Sprig, an open-source game console
Join a community of teen hackers
Assemble (2022)
Hackers with Linus Tech Tips (2024)
Hack Clubbers come from all over the world. In 2024, we hosted Counterspell, a game jam that ran simultaneously in 40+ locations worldwide. This year, we'll be running Scrapyard worldwide, with a flagship hackathon hosted on March 1st-2nd - just one of many events this year built and organized by a team of teenagers at Hack Club.
No matter who you are, where you're from, or how experienced (or not!) you are at programming - you're welcome here.
Meet past winners...
Hack Club - Challenge Winners FINAL
Alex (16, TX)Alex likes writing code, designing PCBs, and maintaining servers and networks.
Andrea (16, CA)Andrea is a passionate high school researcher and student developer of tools for biological research.
Hack Club - Challenge Winners FINAL THIS ONE (2)
Celeste (16, GA)Celeste is a computer scientist, roboticist, and singer. She's passionate about the intersection of STEM and the arts, as well as tech advocacy.
Clay (16, VT)Clay is a student developer and high schooler from Vermont, as well as a member of Green Mountain Robotics and Robohawks.
Hack Club - Challenge Winners (draft)
Sahiti (18, GA)Sahiti is a developer in love with computer science and entrepreneurship. She aims to make an impact by spreading opportunities.
...on the Hack Club Slack
Join the Slack and build your winning app submission today.
Submissions for the 2025 Congressional App Challenge open
