Hey friends!
Sam, Hack Clubber from Singapore, here. This is a rundown of some of the amazing things your fellow Hack Clubbers have been up to since August!
To start, last week, we shared the 6-minute 
Assemble Documentary: a film on the 42 hour hackathon in August nearly 200 of you came to. It showcases the magical experience of attending a hackathon, and our hope is that it can help organizers share what’s in store for attendees at their hackathons – please consider checking it out!
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🎒 Hacking The Back To School
Incredible Hack Club meetings are happening in schools across the world this month, like Linkai and
Tinu had more than a dozen friends at their club in Silver Spring, Maryland this month.
My school's club is about to kick off for the year and I'm excited to get back to making something new every Monday lunch break!
To prepare for the new school year, clubs have been busy shipping new websites to pitch their club to prospective members. Here are a couple of my favourites:
CCHS Hack Club (Chicopee, MA) - website built by Jianmin! That Julia Fractal (the generative art on the right) is stunning 🤩. We have a workshop that you can use to make a similar piece, if you're curious.
Jianmin has open sourced her approach here, it's a super interesting piece of code to read!
Edison Hack Club (Queens, NY) - website built by Kyle! He hacked it together just in time for the school year. Interestingly, their logo was generated using DALL-E. I agree with
Celeste, who commented "i like that — afaict — one of the first things i see upon opening the site is members’ projects" in response to the #ship, that's awesome!
Pomperaug Hack Club (Southbury, CT) - website built by Neesh! I really love how they've used the "Welcome to Hack Club" video on there. Their site also has just the right amount of sarcasm, nice one Neesh.
If you've built a website for your club (or just built anything in general!) recently, you should #ship it on Slack. It's always so much fun seeing what fellow Hack Clubbers have made!
🍃 Sprig Takes Off
The big news of the month from HQ was the release of 
Sprig, a handheld gaming console where every player is a creator! In total, :sparkles: 430 consoles :sparkles: are going to be manufactured & shipped out to Hack Clubbers who make games.
Any teenager can get a console by:
:video_game: Building a Sprig game in the online JavaScript game editor.
🔀 Making a pull request to add your game to the Sprig gallery in the GitHub repository
It's been so special seeing the Hack Club community banding together to create games. On our recent Sprig Jam, I tried my hand at building my own game called The Reactor. Everyone in #sprig was so wonderfully kind & helpful as I made my way through the process.
The games that everyone's been shipping & submitting are incredible; here are some of my favourites from the Gallery(you can click on each one to play it):
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Sprigs are going to start shipping in October; I'm looking forward to receiving mine, assembling it & playing these games on the console! In the meantime, I've heard whispers of seeds coming in the mail 👀
✨ The Return of IRL Hackathons
What excites me the most in Hack Club right now is the return of IRL high-school hackathons! Hackathons are a big part of how I got into programming and seeing them return in-person is incredible. Last week, for example, Maggie hosted Leland Hacks:
( Maggie made some of the most incredible swag designs for Leland Hacks! No wonder everyone's swarming the swag table.)
And over the next semester, there's many more high school hackathons in stall across the globe:
- Sego Lily Hacks ~ October 7–8 in Salt Lake City, UT
- Hack Austin! ~ October 16 in Austin, TX
- Unite Hacks ~ October 22 in Oakland, CA
- Tri-Valley Hacks ~ October 29–30 in Pleasanton, CA
- Hack Orlando ~ October 29 in Orlando, FL
- poolesville_hacks 2 ~ November 18-20 in Poolesville, MD
- Lion City Hacks ~ December 3 in Singapore
- HackOC ~ Date TBD in Orange County, CA
We keep a directory of upcoming high school hackathons at hackathons.hackclub.com; strongly recommend it!
It's been amazing seeing Hack Clubbers working together in #hackathon-organizers to create all these magical hackathons. In that Slack channel we talk about raising money, prizes, food, swag & more! As someone organising my own hackathon, it means a lot to have a group of friends there to help me along the way.
Theo, a Hack Club alum whose cold emailing made the Elon Musk AMA possible, has been kindly helping edit sponsor's pitches:
So that's what's been happening this month! Looking to escape school & get more involved? Here a couple of great ways to get more involved in the community at the moment:
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👋 Join a Hack Night call! Every Saturday evening (in America, for me its Sunday morning!), we all jump on a Zoom call to hang out and code together.
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🌈 Organise a hackathon using Hack Club Bank, with the help of fellow organisers in #hackathon-organizers and with one of our $500 high-school hackathon grants.
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🎒 Bring together a group of friends & bring the hack to your school by starting a club: https://apply.hackclub.com!
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🍃 Procrastinate by playing games in the Sprig Gallery, or, even better, "productively procrastinate" by making a Sprig game.
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🔥 Start a streak on Scrapbook. (Personally, I've just started posting about learning Redwood on mine!)
Thanks for taking the time to read this email! I'll leave you with this teaser from Ramiz &
Mark in #amas. (Keep your eye on Slack for more info in the coming weeks!)
Over & out,
Sam
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PS: check out some of this incredible art using Stable Diffusion! Celeste shipped github.com/hackclub/simple-stable-diffusion to help folks in the community get started with Stable Diffusion, it's a Colab notebook for getting Stable Diffusion running in <10 minutes.
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