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Welcome to Readme! Readme serves as an introduction to Hack Club to (hopefully) provide a smoother transition into Hack Club.
What does Hack Club do for teens?
Hack Club is a global community of teen hackers (ages 13-18) on Slack building the experience and skills to do amazing things with technology.
We run hundreds of clubs in schools around the world, providing fun, digestible, and short Workshops to teach teens about how fun software (and hardware!) can be. Through Nest and Hack Club AI and Spaces, Hack Clubbers get access to a public VPS to use to run tests and host projects, free LLM inference (with a limit of $4 a day), and an online dev environment.
Hack Club also runs âYou Ship, We Shipâ events where Hack Clubbers can earn prizes for building projects theyâre interested in and earn tickets to in-person hackathons hosted by Hack Club - from coding on a train across Canada to building a pop-up arcade in Tokyo!
Wait, free stuff?! Whatâs the catch?
Yep! Free stuff! And no catch! There are no fees, and no experience with computers is required before joining Hack Club.
Hack Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit funded by donations from companies like GitHub,
FUTO,
Figma, and
Google.
The goal of Hack Club is to produce tinkerers, hackers, and leaders. At Hack Club, everything is run by teens (except for things like finances and legal paperwork, etc.).
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To facilitate this goal, Hack Club hasâŚ
- :A global network of after-school coding clubs
- :A supportive online community of teen hackers
- :A big collection of âyou ship, we shipâ programs & events
- :A series of large virtual events to support your projects
- :A few HQ-run hackathons, IRL events and adventures
- :âSatellite hackathonâ events running simultaneously worldwide, as well as many community events
- :A large fiscal sponsorship program
- :An internship/gap year program for the teens that run the show here
- :A physical headquarters slowly taking over the town of Shelburne, VT
- :A massive Slack workspace with more channels than stars in the sky
- :A Minecraft server
- :Everything is on GitHub!
âŚand more!
Before you jump in, there is a lot of information in these pages and links to other essays and write-ups. You donât have to read them all. You can play around in Slack before reading or only reading parts that interest you. Ready? Set. Go!
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2 - YSWS events and in-person hackathons!
3 - Services and developer tools
4 - Activities with SAD people
6 - Clubs