# Hack Club

> Hack Club is the world's largest nonprofit movement of teenagers making cool projects.

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If you are trying to understand what Hack Club *is* — the community, the Slack, how the programs actually work — start with README at https://readme.hackclub.com, which has its own index at https://readme.hackclub.com/llms.txt.

## Start here

- [Hack Club — Where teens make cool stuff.](https://hackclub.com/): Hack Club is the world's largest nonprofit movement of teenagers making cool projects.
- [Programs — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/programs): Explore Hack Club programs — coding projects, events, and opportunities for teen makers.
- [Hack Clubs](https://hackclub.com/clubs): A place for high school hackers to build together!
- [For Teachers — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/teachers): Hack Club is a welcoming, supportive space where teens can explore technology, make friends, and build things they're proud of — all with independence and agency.

## About Hack Club

- [Philosophy — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/philosophy): Hack Club's philosophy on coding, learning, and building a community of teenage makers.
- [Team — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/team): Meet the Hack Club team — the people behind the world's largest nonprofit network of teen coders.
- [Jobs — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/jobs): Join the Hack Club team. View open positions and apply to work with us.
- [Philanthropy — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/philanthropy): Support Hack Club's mission to build a generation of teen makers. Learn how to donate and get involved.
- [Press — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/press): Hack Club press resources, media coverage, and official logos for press use.
- [Brand — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/brand): Hack Club brand guidelines, logos, colors, and typography for official use.
- [For Parents — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/parents): Hack Club is a welcoming, supportive space where teens can explore technology, make friends, and build things they're proud of — all with independence and agency.
- [School & College Credit — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/credit): How schools and students have worked with Hack Club to receive official credit in high school or college for the projects they built.
- [Open Source — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/opensource): Explore our finances, code, and more.

## Programs and community

- [Map — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/map): Explore Hack Clubs around the world on an interactive map.
- [Arcade — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/arcade): The ultimate summer hackathon for high schoolers. Make projects. Track your hours. Redeem for prizes.
- [Alumni — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/alumni): Once a Hack Clubber, always a Hack Clubber. Stay connected to the community of makers, tinkers, and hackers you grew up with.

## HCB (fiscal sponsorship)

- [Fiscal Sponsorship — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship): Start your nonprofit with HCB: a 501(c)(3) legal entity, bank account, automatic taxes and accounting, and best-in-class software.
- [Organization Directory | Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/directory): Discover the amazing organizations and projects using HCB for fiscal sponsorship.
- [Climate Organizations | Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/climate): Climate-focused organizations using HCB to accelerate environmental action and sustainability initiatives.
- [Financial Toolkit for FIRST Teams | HCB](https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/first): HCB is the ultimate booster club for FRC, FTC, and FLL teams to receive grants, fundraise, make purchases, and much more.
- [HCB Mobile is here! — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/mobile): Manage your HCB organizations on the go. Issue cards, view transactions, and more!
- [HCB is now open source! | Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/open-source): Our fiscal sponsorship platform's codebase is now publicly available under the AGPL license and we're continuing to encourage transparency amongst nonprofits.

## Policies and legal

- [Code of Conduct — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/conduct): Hack Club's Code of Conduct for our community spaces, events, and projects.
- [Safeguarding Policy — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/safeguarding): Hack Club's Events Safeguarding Policy for in-person events.
- [Safety — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/safety): Hack Club is committed to participant safety, both online and offline. Read our Code of Conduct and Safeguarding Policy.
- [Privacy Notice & Terms — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/privacy-and-terms): Hack Club's Privacy Notice and Standard Terms and Conditions.
- [Hack Club for IT Administrators — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/it-admins): Guide for IT Administrators to provide the required tools needed for Hack Clubs
- [Imprint — Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/imprint): Legal notice and contact details for Hack Club (The Hack Foundation).

## Elsewhere at Hack Club

- [README — an introduction to Hack Club](https://readme.hackclub.com): The community's own guide for new Hack Clubbers: the culture, how clubs and HQ work, how to use the Slack, how You Ship We Ship programs run, the services worth knowing about, and the lore. Has its own llms.txt.
- [README llms.txt](https://readme.hackclub.com/llms.txt): that site's own index, in this format
- [Hack Club Slack](https://slack.hackclub.com/): where the community lives

## Optional

- [Events API (OpenAPI)](https://hackclub.com/openapi.json): the public API for Hack Club events, and the shared error shape — also served at https://hackclub.com/api/v1/openapi.json
- [Events API (YAML)](https://hackclub.com/api/openapi.yaml): the same document as YAML — also at https://hackclub.com/api/v1/openapi.yaml
- [API reference](https://hackclub.com/api/v1/docs): browsable documentation for the Events API
- [API versioning policy](https://hackclub.com/api/versioning): compatibility guarantees, deprecation signals, and removal notice periods
- [Events RSS feed](https://hackclub.com/api/v1/events/rss): newly announced events, newest first
- [sitemap.xml](https://hackclub.com/sitemap.xml): canonical URLs for every locale
- [Source code](https://github.com/hackclub/site): this website, on GitHub