High Seas!
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Build personal projects.
Get free stuff.

Free stickers for all new recruits!

By Hack Club and GitHub.
For teenagers 18 and under.
October 30th to January 31st.

How this works:

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Make cool projects!

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Download the High Seas extension for your code editor, and hack on something cool! Examples: building a personal website, making an app, or creating a video game.

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Submit your projects for Doubloons!

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Share your projects with our community of teen makers. Sign in with Hack Club Slack and ship them in the Harbor! For each hour coded, earn Doubloons (our virtual currency).

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Spend Doubloons on awesome prizes!

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Use Doubloons to purchase loot for your next project! Items range from soldering irons to 3D printers. In just 5 hours, you could earn a Raspberry Pi Zero! Full prize list below.

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Last time we did this...

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5,000

high schoolers participated

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130,000+

total hours logged

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11,112

total prizes shipped to 119 countries

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That's including:

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348 Raspberry Pi Zeros

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150 Wacom Intuos

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120 iPads

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64 3D Printers

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and more!

Prizes to power up your next project!

Redeem these with your Doubloons! For high schoolers (or younger) only.

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~01 hours

Domain

for a year!

Shop item

40

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~02 hours

Pinecil

solder!!

Shop item

82

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~13 hours

Blahåj (friend)

soft to hold of the shark :3

Shop item

123

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~36 hours

Raspberry Pi 5

home server, mayhaps?

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265

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~1017 hours

Flipper Zero

don't do anything i wouldn't do :-P

Shop item

850

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~1527 hours

Bambu A1 Mini

what are you gonna print?

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1,337

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~2442 hours

iPad

with Apple Pencil!

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2,090

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~3662 hours

Framework Laptop

16", 16GB RAM....16 16 16

Shop item

3,075

This is just a sneak peak... new items will be added over the winter!

What will you make this winter?

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Don't know where to start?

Try out one of these Hack Club programs!

  • Boba drops: Build a site, get boba!
  • Hackaccino: Ship a 3D website, get a free Frappuccino!
  • Cider: Develop an iOS app, we'll cover the $100 AppStore fee.
  • Sprig: Make a video game, get a Console to play it on!
  • Nest: Host your project's backend on Hack Club's free open-source server!

More workshops here!

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Or click the dino for ideas!

She's not super smart, but she'll try her best—pirates' honor!

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Join a community of makers

hack clubbers!

Hack Clubbers at Linus Tech Tips!

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@lou

today i worked on:

  • an assignment on DDE for my robotics class
  • started working on my chip-8 emulator but i switched tutorials since i wasn't rlly sure where to start. i think im getting the idea so i might go back to the one i was using to see if it makes more sense :)
  • contacting a boba shop for discounted boba for counterspell since we're getting like 100
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@whackalenso

I finished my saxophone MIDI controller 🎷! It lets you play any software instrument you’d like using saxophone fingerings, allowing you to practice without disturbing others, create music in any DAW, and perform with it. Check it out at https://github.com/Whackalenso/CircuitSax

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@samuel

Just fixed some final bugs to ship the mobile app for Back on Track America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the homeless and those suffering from food insecurity by coordinating student volunteers in several communities. The app allows volunteers to sign up for their location, receive announcements from location leaders, and discuss upcoming events! ⚒️ It's built with React Native & NativeWind on the frontend, and using Pocketbase on the backend. It's also now being submitted for #cider, so that it can get published on the app store! An android build on the play store is also coming soon. Check out the code at https://github.com/backontrackus/app and https://github.com/backontrackus/backend

FAQ

Who is eligible?

You need to be a high schooler (or younger).

How much does it cost?

100% free - all the prizes are donated to us or paid for by us!

What types of projects count?

Anything that you've programmed and is open-source!

How many projects can I build?

All the projects! The land's the limit! (But seriously, you could build as many as you want.)

I need help!

Read the big FAQ. Still stuck? Reach out in #high-seas-help channel of the Hack Club Slack and we'll help you out!

Does school work or a job count?

High Seas is about the joy of building for the sake of building. If you're building something for school or work, we can't count it.

Is this legit?

Yup! This summer, we ran Arcade, which gave out similar prizes for working on personal projects.

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Build. Battle. Booty. Repeat.

A project by Hack Club.

Hack Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and network of 30k+ technical high schoolers. We believe you learn best by building so we're creating community and providing grants so you can make awesome projects. In the past few years, we've partnered with GitHub to run Arcade, hosted the world's longest hackathon on land, and ran Canada's largest high school hackathon.

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