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Active Programs
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Stasis - 1 day
Hack Club: The Game - 5 days
Cœur - 8 days
Boot - 16 days
Fallout - 1 month 15 days
Shipyard - 1 month 18 days
Polygon - 2 months 16 days
Forge - 2 months 16 days
birthday-cards - 2 months 24 days
Macondo
Horizons
Fix Hack Club
Beest
RaspAPI
Resolution
Enclosure
HackCraft
Lumen
Fusering
BakeBuild
iplace
Hacklet v2
Terminal Craft v5
Sprig
Boba Drops
Storyboard
Toppings
Lightsaber

Limited Time

Forge

Completed active

Forge is a Hack Club YSWS (You ship, we ship) program where teens like yourself can design and build hardware projects, and get them funded! Forge your project now

Ends August 1
Forge sticker

Shipyard

Completed active

Ship 7 weeks of computing and coding challenges. Earn prizes from the shop!

Ends July 4
Macondo
Macondo
Completed active

Make projects. Win free prizes. Fly to Bogotá, Colombia for a 3-day scrappy hackathon

Horizons
Completed active

7 hackathons. Run by teenagers across the globe. For teenagers everywhere.

Fix Hack Club

Completed active

Contribute to Hack Club repositories, get a grant of your choice!

Polygon

Completed active

Build a 3d website using three.js and get a grant to go watch your favourite movies!

Ends July 31

Beest

Completed active

Build a real project, qualify to fly to the Netherlands, and build a mechanical animal at a week-long hackathon.

Beest sticker

RaspAPI

Completed active

Build an API, get a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W to host it on!

Resolution

Completed active

Resolution is an 8-week challenge where you set goals, ship every week, and earn prizes for following through.

Enclosure

Completed active

Design a custom enclosure for your project, get a 3D print of it shipped to you and tier based prizes!

Stasis

Completed active

Build hardware projects and fly to a hardware hackathon in Austin, Texas

Ends tomorrow

Fallout

Completed active

Build 60h of hardware projects, visit Shenzhen, China!

Ends July 1

Boot

Completed active

Make your own OS, get hardware to run it!

2 weeks left

HackCraft

Completed active

Create a Minecraft mod, get Stickers, Minecraft, another game or a server and terraria!

Lumen

Completed active

Make a Minecraft shaderpack, get Minecraft and GPUs!

Hack Club: The Game

Completed active

Code for 40 hours & fly out to Manhattan to compete in a IRL adventure game!ame!

5 days left

Cœur

Completed active

Make an e-card, earn heart themed prizes (including a sweatshirt!!!)

1 week left

birthday-cards

Completed active

You ship a birthday themed project we ship a birthday card!

Ends August 8

Fusering

Completed active

Design a keyring, get your keyring and a carabiner to hang it from!

BakeBuild

Completed active

Design a cookie cutter, get it shipped!

Indefinite

iplace

Completed active

A collaborative canvas of websites, made by Hack Clubbers! Get hosting and domain credits!

Hacklet v2

Completed active

Build a bookmarklet, get food for your club!

Terminal Craft v5

Completed active

Build and publish your own terminal program to earn $4/hr

Sprig

Completed active

Build a JS game and play it on your own console.

830 participants

Boba Drops

Completed active

Build a website and get boba!

5060 participants

Storyboard

Completed active

Make a themed visual novel, earn prizes!

Toppings

Completed active

You ship an interactive website using framework-less JavaScript, we ship you a grant to an ice cream parlor.

Drafts

Bestsellr

Completed draft

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

Hackanomous

Completed draft

Build into AI. Get funding
and win prizes!

Hackanomous Mascot

Alchemize

Completed draft

Make general projects, or one of the 3 theme-based projects and earn Potion Mix to get the prizes you choose

Jus'STUDY

Completed draft

Get study stuff by shipping projects that help you and others study!

Jus'STUDY

Rootship

Completed draft

Learn system penetration, earn hacking themed prizes!

Track it

Completed draft

Build a map app, GeoGuessr-style game, or GPS tracker. Explore the world. Win prizes.

Kit Lab

Completed draft

Build software according to themes and gets kits to build projects and ship projects made using only the kit electronics and get prizes!

Rooted

Completed draft

Spend time coding, come to BornHack 🏕️ ∣ RSVP

MakerCreate

Completed draft

Spawn into a world of hardware and CAD modelling with MakerCreate

Shrine

Completed draft

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

issued

Completed draft

code to design hack-themed apparel

Swatchbox

Completed draft

You ship a modular art component, we ship the swatchbox to go with it!

Rube Goldburg YSWS

Completed draft

Create complex chain reaction machines and contraptions

Poetry

Completed draft

You ship: poetry (details to be decided soon) We ship: Maybe a poster or smth?

Plunge

Completed draft

DESIGN A PLUNGER-STYLE COOKIE CUTTER, GET IT SHIPPED!

Aquarium

Completed draft

Build aquatic-themed projects and digital ecosystems

Apogee

Completed draft

a rocketry ysws - still workshopping the idea!

Glossarium

Completed draft

You ship anything that can provide knowledge (a comic, a tutorial, a how-to...) We ship a zine from Julia Evans

Hack A Home

Completed draft

You Ship a Home Assistant with Software,PCB and Case, We Ship a grant ($150 Max)to make it.

Hackumentary

Completed draft

You Ship a project with dev vlogs, We Ship points through which you can buy goodies

Reef

Completed draft

Ship a deep learning project (AI/ML/LLM/NN), get a custom coral based accelerator.

Hackducky

Completed draft

Create A DuckyScript get a Rubber Ducky ! ( hackducky )

Servo

Completed draft

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

HackABand

Completed draft

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

Vine

Completed draft

Create a song using open-source music software and receive a vinyl with your song.

Hack Store

Completed draft

Use a free alternative app store and get a Google Developer account.

Light Up

Completed draft

Design an electronic circuit with lights, and Hack Club sends you the components and gifts.

Aether

Completed draft

Build a Windows app, and Hack Club provides a Microsoft Store developer account.

Onward

Completed draft

Build a robot using Arduino and receive one.

PicoJam

Completed draft

Create a PICO-8 game, get a PICO-8 license for free!

Hack the Line

Completed draft

Get an Asterisk server running, and we'll send you a VoIP phone.

Hackclub market

Completed draft

You can buy/sell pcb's online

Lightsaber

Completed undefined

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

Turquoise

Completed draft

You ship a linux distro, we ship a custom Hack Club skirt

Wetube

Completed draft

You ship a YouTube channel, we ship points for every video to spend on video equipment!

Mini MIDI Magic

Completed draft

You ship a custom MIDI Synth/Controller with the firmware, we make it and send it to you!

Glyphic

Completed draft

You Ship a cool and advanced Manim animation visualizing something, We Ship a Lamy Safari Fountain Pen

Pridehaj

Completed draft

You ship a pride themed website, we ship a blahaj

Hack Drive

Completed draft

You Ship a cool filesystem/something using FUSE, We Ship a Hack Club branded flash drive

Hackmouse

Completed draft

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

The Ride

Completed draft

You ship a PCB to go on an adventure, we give you the opportunity to build an (offroad) bike at HQ and go on that adventure.

Trainix

Completed draft

Build an RL model for math problems and win an ESP32-S3 + OLED Module. Top 3 get an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit.

RPG

Completed draft

Work together with other hack clubbers to fight bosses and earn awesome loot and an exclusive trading card for those who help defeat each boss!

The hackbook

Completed draft

Write segments on almost anything, get the hackbook shipped to you and win prizes!

Hack a Home

Completed draft

Mod, tweak, and upgrade your devices — earn grants to buy IoT hardware.

Ended

Flavortown

Completed ended

Cook personal projects. Win free prizes.

Ended

Sleepover

Completed ended

Learn to code and fly to an all girls slumber party hackathon!

Ended

Construct

Completed ended

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

Ended

TrailIt

Completed ended

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

Ended

Remixed

Completed ended

Ship something music related, get stuff to help you make music!

Ended

Slushies

Completed ended

Earn $5 for deploying your Flask app

Ended

Scraps

Completed ended

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

Ended

Reboot

Completed ended

Restore old projects, upgrade your desktop setup!

Ended

Pxl

Completed ended

Code any project, place pixels on a r/place-like canvas!

Ended

Hackvault

Completed ended

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

Ended

HomeLab

Completed ended

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

Ended

Haxmas

Completed ended

Do workshops, get prizes! Repeat til Christmas!

Ended

Meow

Completed ended

Spend 5 hours building something to do with cats, get a cat plushie! Ends Christmas Day!

Ended

Woof

Completed ended

Spend 5 or more hours making a dog-themed project and get a dog plushie!

Ended

Mosaic

Completed ended

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

Ended

Wacky Files

Completed ended

Find the wackiest ways to store files for free and earn $3/hour with multipliers!

Ended

Bauble

Completed ended

3D model an ornament, get it printed and put on the HQ tree! Ends December 25th.

Ended

Fudge

Completed ended

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

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Remix

Completed ended

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

Ended

Midnight

Completed ended

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

Ended

Axiom

Completed ended

YSWS for math/science projects!

Accelerate

Completed ended

Build physics simulations, get prizes!

Ended

Blueprint

Completed ended

Design a hardware project, up to $400 to build it!

Ended

Aces

Completed ended

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!

Ended

The Zoo

Completed ended

Make an animal themed Svelte site, earn Ikea Animal Plushies

Ended

Shiba Arcade

Completed ended

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

Ended

Milkyway

Completed ended

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

Ended

Haunted Halloween

Completed ended

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

Ended

Dummies V2

Completed ended

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

Ended

Siege

Completed ended

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

Ended

Emerge

Completed ended

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

Ended

Reactive

Completed ended

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

Ended

Hacksaber

Completed ended

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!

Fanpage

Completed ended

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

Ended

Hackberry

Completed ended

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

Ended

Waveform

Completed ended

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

Ended

Miniverge

Completed ended

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

Ended

Penumbra

Completed ended

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

Ended

Playphone

Completed ended

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

Ended

Clutter

Completed ended

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

Ended

iFrame

Completed ended

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

Summer of Making

Completed ended

Build stuff. Get stuff. Repeat.

Ended
2817 participants

RSS

Completed ended

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

Ended

Moonshot

Completed ended

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

Hivemind

Completed ended

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

Ended

Gemini

Completed ended

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

Ended

Endpointer

Completed ended

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

Ended

Portal-VR

Completed ended

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

Ended

Timeless

Completed ended

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

Ended

Toybox

Completed ended

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

Ended

Dummies

Completed ended

learn a new language, recieve a guide book!

Ended

Twist

Completed ended

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

Ended

Infinity

Completed ended

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

Ended

Tile

Completed ended

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

Ended

Minigame

Completed ended

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!

Ended

Squeak

Completed ended

Design a mouse case and receive the case and parts!

Ended

Pathfinder

Completed ended

Make a custom PCB controller board and efidget

Ended

Hackfinger

Completed ended

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

Ended

Jumpstart

Completed ended

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

Ended

Reinforced

Completed ended

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

Ended

Decode

Completed ended

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

Ended

Storyboard

Completed ended

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

Ended

Pulse

Completed ended

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

Ended

Journey

Completed ended

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

Ended

Railway

Completed ended

Build a site with Ruby on Rails, receive stickers!

Ended

Cinema

Completed ended

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

Ended

Spatula

Completed ended

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!

Ended

Rewind

Completed ended

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

Ended

Illumination

Completed ended

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

Ended

Overflow-hidden

Completed ended

ysws where you can't use a scrollbar

Ended

Swirl

Completed ended

Create a quality website with Scoops, get ice cream!

Ended
424 participants

Grub

Completed ended

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

Ended

Waffles

Completed ended

You ship a website using HTML CSS and JavaScript, and get Waffles!!!

Ended

Hackmate

Completed ended

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

Ended

Converge

Completed ended

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

Ended

Gamefolio

Completed ended

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

Ended

Extensify

Completed ended

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

Ended

Waveband

Completed ended

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

Ended

Toolsmith

Completed ended

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

Ended

Smelt

Completed ended

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

Ended

Highway

Completed ended

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!

Ended

Cafe

Completed ended

Collect cups, progress the graph, earn bonuses!

Ended

Black Box

Completed ended

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

Ended

Hackpad

Completed ended

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

Ended
312 participants

Sidequests

Completed ended

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

Lockin

Completed ended

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

BrowserBuddy

Completed ended

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

Ended
76 participants

TerminalCraft

Completed ended

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

Ended

Pixeldust

Completed ended

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

Ended

Juice

Completed ended

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.

Ended

Jungle

Completed ended

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!

Ended

Infill

Completed ended

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

Ended
41 participants

Visioneer

Completed ended

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

Ended

Hacklet

Completed ended

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

Ended

Asylum

Completed ended

Fast-paced hardware YSWS challenges.

Ended

Printboard

Completed ended

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

Ended
0 participants

Minus Twelve

Completed ended

Create a useful tool and receive a shiny new microcontroller!

Ended

Hackapet

Completed ended

Make a pet game, get a hackable tamagotchi clone!

Ended

Dessert

Completed ended

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

Ended

Cascade

Completed ended

Create animations with CSS and receive art supplies.

Ended
56 participants

Riceathon

Completed ended

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

Ended
102 participants

Hacky Holidays

Completed ended

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

Ended

Retrospect (J2ME edition)

Completed ended

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

Ended

Hackaccino

Completed ended

Build a 3D website and get a free frappuccino.

Ended
464 participants

Cider

Completed ended

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

91 participants

10 Days of Tarot

Completed ended

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

Ended

Thunder

Completed ended

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

Ended

Shipwrecked

Completed ended

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

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Neighborhood

Completed ended

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

Carnival

Completed ended

Build an extension, plugin, or widget get prizes

Ended

Armed

Completed ended

Develop an arm assembly program, get lego.

Ended

Authly

Completed ended

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

Ended

Silicon

Completed ended

Design your own custom devboard and we'll fund it

Ended

cmd + k

Completed ended

Build a Raycast extension, get Raycast Pro & stickerskers

Ended

Solder

Completed ended

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

Ended

OnBoard

Completed ended

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

1016 participants

Boba Olympics

Completed ended

Hack Clubbers team up to build websites in wild weekly categories

OnBoard Live

Completed ended

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

foodie

Completed ended

code and eat!

Constellation

Completed ended

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

Jetsu

Completed ended

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

Ended

Pyramid Scheme

Completed ended

Put up Hack Club posters to earn prizes.

Ended December 10th

15 Days in Public

Completed ended

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

Ended on March 9, 2025

Sock

Completed ended

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

Ended on March 1, 2025

Easel

Completed ended

Build a programming language, get fudge.

Ended on June 30, 2024

Blot

Completed ended

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

Ended on November 23, 2024
197 participants

Boba Manor

Completed ended

Website building with rewards.

Ended October 31st

Retrospect

Completed ended

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

Ended October 8th

LLM YSWS

Completed ended

Projects using language models.

Ended October 1st
20 participants

Arcade

Completed ended

The summer is yours for the making

Ended September 1st
1227 participants

The Bin

Completed ended

Hardware-related projects.

Ended September 30th
277 participants

HAM Radio YSWS

Completed ended

Related to HAM radio projects.

Ended on May 31, 2024
14 participants

Trick or Trace

Completed ended

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

Ended October 21st

Anchor

Completed ended

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

Ended on January 27, 2025
36 participants

High Seas

Completed ended

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

Ended
3341 participants

Neon

Completed ended

Build code, get a 64x32 LED matrix.

Ended
75 participants

Say Cheese!

Completed ended

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

Ended
370 participants

Cargo Cult

Completed ended

Build a Rust CLI and get a Rust book.

Ended on December 31, 2024

Winter Boba Drops

Completed ended

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

Ended on December 31, 2024

Rework

Completed ended

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

Ended

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