Earn Hack Club's Athena Award, an industry recognized technical certificate.
Travel to New York City for 2025's largest high school hackathon for girls!
Win prizes as you code, including laptops, iPads, Flipper Zeros, headphones and hoodies.

Happening now. You're invited to join a community of creators, built by girls, for girls. In collaboration with:

How it works - Code three technical projects by Oct 31st

Build three of your own projects, submit projects from one of our community partners, or follow one of Hack Club's tutorials to get started.

Code for thirty hours, open source and deploy your finished projects.

Meet other girls in the online community. Ask questions. Get technical support in online meetups and chats. Hack Clubbers will help you finish and deploy your projects.

Earn the Athena Award to share on your LinkedIn, college applications, or elsewhere.

Here's what you can expect:

Sarah N

16, California

@idksarah

Hihi!! I'm Sarah and I'm a 16 year old based in California. I first found Hack Club through Arcade, a coding summer event which I participated in partially because of the allure of free stickers.

Since then, I've been helping organize various You-Ship-We-Ship and Days-of-Service programs as an artist and developer, + found some of my favorite people through awesome hackathons in LA, Shanghai, and even online. So excited to see you all in an even cooler hackathon in NYC :3

You're invited to the best ever hackathon.

Dear friends,

Hack Club wants you to make things. Cool engineering things. Things you love to make.

If you code and deploy three technical projects and spend 30 hours of coding by Oct 31st, Hack Club will issue you the Athena Award certification.

This is an exclusive badge for your website/LinkedIn/GitHub that is recognized by colleges like MIT and employers like SpaceX.

It certifies you have achieved an impressive technical milestone.

You will also instantly qualify to join Hack Club's NYC hackathon - the nation's largest all-girl hackathon - running from November 14th-November 16th. 250 girls can attend this 36 hour event, and we'll issue nearly 100 travel stipends.

Win prizes, enjoy free food, play games and meet cool female tech CEOs!

Deploying 3 technical projects is not easy. So along your journey, you'll earn "artifacts" to redeem for prizes. Hack Club is ready to give away $100k in prizes for the Athena Award - check out a few below. Get started - the Athena Award is competitive and hard, but also fun and packed with friends. There is no limit to the # of winners. We are here to support you.

- Christina Asquith, Hack Club Cofounder

Earn incredible prizes for each project you ship!

Wacom Drawing Tablet

Nothing Earbuds (Ear (a))

Prizes

Build awesome projects. Win awesome prizes.

Framework 12 Laptop

... all these and more!

Athena Hoodie

iPad (11 inch)

Get free stickers

Curious what else we do?

Athena

is a group of programs at Hack Club to empower girls and nonbinary teenagers to code.

From hosting in-person hackathons to virtual workshops, Hack Club is a place to become more technical and immerse yourself in coding.

Our 2024 summit:

Ascend was Hack Club's first-ever Days of Service Summit! Held in Los Angeles, this event brought together 50 girls and non-binary Hack Club members from across the U.S. and internationally for a hackathon hosted at SpaceX, along with a weekend filled with fun and growth. This summit became the largest teenage girl hackathon in the U.S. this year, in partnership with Girls Who Code and Kode with Klossy.

Learn more about Ascend

Events

One-day coding events that help girls and gender minorities write their first lines of code

Stories

Check out the awesome projects and stories from Athena members!

Team

Meet the team behind Athena

Days of Service

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