YSWS Programs

Write a short story and build a webpage for it like a real published book.

Spawn into a world of hardware and CAD modelling with MakerCreate

Make and code a project about your favorite fictional character, get a grant to buy merch of your character!

code to design hack-themed apparel

a rocketry ysws - still workshopping the idea!

Design upgrades for your robot, get parts & prizes!zes!

ship a wristband design and we ship you fabric woven wristband with NFC chip

Build a robot using Arduino and receive one.

You ship a beat saber map, we ship a(n) .

Design a PCB & case for a mouse and get the parts shipped to you.you.

Make software/hardware projects, buy countries and get free prizes!

Design projects using CAD, Get a 3d printer to print them!

Produce A web-app, and get equipment to produce a Video!

Make your own OS, get hardware to run it!

Create projects, earn scraps, try your luck, get prizes, repeat

You make a password manager and we'll ship you a Yubikey!

You ship projects related to having a self hosted server at home, and we ship things to help you create your own setup

Do workshops, get prizes! Repeat til Christmas!

Build a website every month with a different theme. Get stuff. Repeat.

Make any project you want, get fudge right from the Shelburne County Store next to HQ!

Remix an existing song's beats in Strudel and get 1 month of Spotify, Apple Music, or SoundCloud Pro

Spend 70 hours building personal projects, fly to a murder mystery hackathon in Vienna, Austria - Jan 2026

YSWS for math/science projects!

Create your own digital board game, get a grant to make it a real physical game, and then get a trip to Washington DC to show off your game to the public at AwesomeCon!

Make an animal themed Svelte site, earn Ikea Animal Plushies

Make a game with Godot, earn SSS, and get invited to build an arcade in Tokyo (flight stipends available!)

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

Make a halloween theme for a website or app, get a custom halloween themed sticker and candy!

Learn A new programming language and make a project with that, And We will send you school supplies, books, and study materials

Code every week, get prizes. Make it to the end, get a framework!

create an emergent behaviour, place pixels on the group canvas, get the canvas shipped to you!

Ship a website built with React, get $15 to buy a domain.

Ship a Beat Saber Modchart, and we'll ship custom T-Shirt designed by a HC member, or a copy of the game! Live YSWS!

Ship a project that celebrates a fandom, and we ship you something related to it!

Built a machine learning project in python, get a personalized raspberry pi kit!

Make your own waveform visualizer, get a grant to buy music

Spend 2 hours on a bot, get stickers and a chance for a Blåhaj or Minecraft!

Make shaders, and we'll ship you GPUs and posters!

Work together to built a godot game, get a custom hackclub badge

You ship something to organize your digital life. We ship you a grant to buy something to organize your physical life.

Draw or edit images using any programming language and we will hang your custom image on HQ wall and send a copy to you

Build stuff. Get stuff. Repeat.

Build something cool with RSS feeds, get a domain grant.

Spend 75 hours building personal projects, fly to a hackathon in Orlando, FL Dec 12–15

Create a roguelike in 7 days, get itch.io credit.

Ship An Android App and get a FREE Android Phone + Dev License!

Build a REST API, get a grant for Raspberry Pi or Cloud Credits

Build an AR/VR application, get a VR headset!

You have 10 days. Make a video game that could last someone 10 years.

You ship a daily game, we ship stickers + keycap keychain + steam gift card. Make the next Wordle.

learn a new language, recieve a guide book!

Make an esolang, get stickers and a $40 electronics grant.

Build a website with an infinite realtime canvas, get awesome prizes!

Build a tile, get a tile, tile the tiles!

A YSWS where you build "mini" 5 hour games and earn a $20 grant for each one! At the end everyone's games will be combined together to make a big Minigame collection!

Design a mouse case and receive the case and parts!

Make a custom PCB controller board and efidget

You design a custom appendage (finger, tail, leg, anything you want!) and get your design printed along with a custom control board.

Game-dev YSWS running July 9th to Aug 9th ✨

Build a game, build a bot to beat it, get compute to do more AI stuff.

Learn how a tech product works (hardware + software) and we ship you a grant to make it yourself

Make a visual novel, get $$ for merch/plushie

Build a project using the Spotify API with 6 hours on Hackatime, get 3 months of Spotify Premium

The smash-hit Hack Club event where you share insider details of whatever you're building.

Build a site with Ruby on Rails, receive stickers!

You ship a short story JavaScript animation using canvas. In return, we ship HQ-made caramel popcorn

You ship an app or script that sends push notifications, we'll give you a $5 grant card so you can start sending SMS messages with your code!

Make an app that runs on Windows XP, get stickers + super cool headphones from KOSS (the KTX Pro 1 or Porta Pros).

You build something with ESP32-S3 emulator, and we give you a super cool ESP32-S3 devboard, custom parts, and cloud credits!

ysws where you can't use a scrollbar

Create a quality website with Scoops, get ice cream!

You Ship A responsive website using only HTML and Tailwind CSS. We Ship A grant for junk food.

Build a collaborative app, get upto $50 for cloud credits or a raspberry pi

Build Discord/Slack bots, we ship domain names, server hosting, Blahajs, and more

Make a interactive portfolio website, get $20 for hosting or domains

Build an IDE extension, get a keychain or a premium theme for VS Code or Sublime Text!

Create a program that uses RTL-SDR, and Hack Club sends you a dongle and antenna kit.

Build a AI extension (MCP tool), get $10 of AI credits.

Ship a Svelte/SvelteKit site, get awesome collectable swag!

Make any hardware project, get up to 350 USD to build it! Keyboard, game console, rocket, robot, 3d printer, etc... Then, go to a 4-day hardware hackathon @ Github HQ this summer!

Collect cups, progress the graph, earn bonuses!

Create a constrained, interactive C program and get a portable device to run it on!

Design a keyboard get the parts! Please note this is only open to those who have build a Macropad previously.

A short-run low-volume low-effort ysws series from nora & co. co.

Work on anything Wakatime-able on call with another Hack Clubber, spin for stickers at the end of the session.

Build a Chrome extension, and Hack Club provides $30 to launch it on Chrome Web Store.

Build a terminal program and earn 5$ per hour for building your program to get hackable hardware.

Make a neopixel based PCB, get the parts to make one!

Spend 100 hours in 2 months building a game, and we'll cover your Steam release and fund a flight to China for a pop-up shop.

Spend time working on your game, get money to help publish it! Prizes include steam license, itch.io asset store credits, and much much more!

Design your own 3D printer mod, get $20 to build it!

Give your computer the gift of vision, get an esp32-s3-eye to see it through!

Spend two hours building a creative javascript bookmarklet, get $10 to buy a domain!

Fast-paced hardware YSWS challenges.

Design a 3D model that goes with the Ikea Skadis pegboard, and we will send you one!

Create a useful tool and receive a shiny new microcontroller!

Make a pet game, get a hackable tamagotchi clone!

Make an Android app and earn a paid Google Developer account.

Create animations with CSS and receive art supplies.

Customize your Linux install, and get programmer socks or a Blåhaj.

Design a PCB holiday decoration this winter, get one shipped.

Create a J2ME game (Java MIDlet) and have it delivered on a J2ME-capable phone.

Build a 3D website and get a free frappuccino.

Create an iOS app and receive a $100 Apple Developer account to publish it.

Build a project or feature and get exclusive prizes for each card requirement you hit.

You Ship A Slack bot. We Ship A limited edition Orpheus bucket hat.

You Ship 60 hours of work, 4 projects, and go viral. We Ship A ticket to an island hackathon in Boston.

You Ship 100 hours of coding on one project. We Ship A free summer of coding in San Francisco.

Build an extension, plugin, or widget get prizes

Create A DuckyScript get a Rubber Ducky ! ( hackducky )

Develop an arm assembly program, get lego.

Build the weirdest and never-before-seen authentication system, get yubikeys, programmable nfc tags, antivirus giftcards and more!

Design your own custom devboard and we'll fund it

Build a Raycast extension, get Raycast Pro & stickerskers

Design and solder your own custom PCB with a free electronics kit!

Design a PCB and we'll fabricate it for you.

Hack Clubbers team up to build websites in wild weekly categories

Design a PCB live on YouTube for $5/hour PCB credit.

code and eat!

You ship a self host, full stack website, we ship a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W to host it on

You ship a ML Robot, We ship a Jetson Nano / Jetson Orin Nano

Put up Hack Club posters to earn prizes.

Learn, build, or do something everyday for 15 days and post progress reports.

Collaborate on a project for 10 days, get Hack Club socks!

Build a programming language, get fudge.

Write code, make art, and get a drawing machine.

Website building with rewards.

Create a DOS game and have it delivered on a floppy disk.

Projects using language models.

The summer is yours for the making

Hardware-related projects.

Related to HAM radio projects.

Design a PCB this October, vote on the best designs, get a second grant.

Design a VTuber-style logo for your High Seas project and receive custom stickers.

Work on projects, earn doubloons, and compete in the Wonderdome.

Build code, get a 64x32 LED matrix.

Fit a program in a QR code, get a portable printer and maybe a Blåhaj.

Build a Rust CLI and get a Rust book.

Create a winter-themed static website, get a boba plushie!

CAD a 3d printer mod, get $75 and 1kg of Hack Club filament to build it!