Hack Club
Days of Service

What is Hack Club?

Hack Club is the largest network of highly technical teen hackers from around the world. Check out our projects here.

Overview

Hack Club has launched a new initiative to help Hack Clubbers share their love and passion for coding with students of gender minorities from underprivileged backgrounds who lack access to CS education.

What is a Day of Service?

A one-day hackathon organized by a group of Hack Clubbers in collaboration with an organization in our local area that serves gender minorities.
The event is followed with a dinner with professional women engineers from the area. This is to ensure young girls get to meet role models in the industry!
You’ll have the chance to train your organizing and technical skills with the support of highly experienced hackathon organizers.
You’ll hold an event that exposes more students of gender minorities to coding.
You will also have the chance to meet other girls from your area who share a passion for coding.

How’s this different from a regular hackathon?

The intention of the hackathon is to help girls who lack access to resources and opportunities build their first project with code. To achieve that, the majority of guests will come through a nonprofit youth partner, like Girl Scouts– that specifically serve communities of gender minorities with less opportunity. Hack Clubbers will be responsible for creating beginner level content/workshops for them and helping them ship their first project.

Hack Club supports Days of Service by offering close personal support to organizers. We help guide you from opening your repository to the closing ceremony. Additionally, Hack Club provides funding for travel stipends and event costs. The number of mentors and people flown in varies depending on the number of attendees at the event. To ensure the event's success, Hack Club offers abundant documentation about past events.

The basics:

Duration: Lasting a minimum of 8 hours.
Leadership: Led by a Hack Club member who will act as the event's coordinator.
Team Management: The coordinator will oversee a group of other Hack Club members specifically assembled for the event.
Financial Management: The event will run on HCB.
Funding: The organizers will be fully funded by Hack Club.
Partner Organisation: The event will be conducted in partnership with a partner organization such as Girl Scouts or Boys & Girls Club.
Minimum Participants: At least 30 high schoolers should be present at each event.

What is Hack Club?

Hack Club is the largest network of highly technical teen hackers from around the world. Check out our projects here.

Past Events

Los Angeles, California

Halo was a day long coding event organised in partnership with the Girl Scouts of Los Angeles! It took place in the Girl Scouts Innovation Centre with around 35 participants who spent the day learning to build a website using simple HTML, CSS and JavaScript or a video game on Hack Club's Sprig engine.

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Photo credits: Dieter Schoening, Ava Shah

Burlington, Vermont

Harvest was a halloween themed social coding event in Burlington! Students got together to build their first website and games on Hack Club's Sprig engine and fulled themselves on halloween candy!

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Photo credits: Nila Palmo Ram, Christina Asquith, Faisal Sayed, Jasper Mayone

San Antonio, Texas

Lonestar was an 8-hour all-female/nonbinary hackathon from September 15th-17th organised by Aileen and Zoya, our two hack clubbers from Texas! “I had a lot of fun with Hack Club. In just the day that I worked, I learned the basics of making a website and I really loved working with y’all. This helped me on how I want to open people’s eyes on global warming.” — Addie, a 7th grader from San Antonio

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Photo credits: Sarthak Mohanty

San Francisco, California

Maggie, 18, and Kayley, 20, hosted Spark at Sentry’s office in San Francisco. With the help of their co-organizers, they ran a series of workshops—from building PCBs to Poker game strategies—and ran both a day-track and overnight-track for over 50 attendees. Prior to the hackathon, they organized a dinner with several tech professionals from the Bay Area hosted by Rebecca Lynn.

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Photo credits: Angela Magtoto

Salt Lake City, Utah

Jasmina, 18, hosted a hackathon, Alpine, in Salt Lake City. She wrote emails to local businesses to get office space for her event, and wrote emails to the Girl Scouts and youth groups so they would bring guests. She and her co-organizers made workshops to run at the event. All of this is open-sourced on the link below.

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New York City, New York

In March 2023, Belle, 18, and Abby, 16, hosted Horizon in NYC kicking off our partnership with the Girl Scouts. They ran a series of workshops and coded all day Saturday with 37 Girl Scouts from NYC. In the evening, they hosted a dinner with 10 professional female tech leaders. Over brunch Sunday, they recapped and planned for another Day of Service in a new city.

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