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🌎 Hack Club is a worldwide community of high school hackers. We make things. We help one another. We have fun.

Welcome to a worldwide community of high school hackers. We’re artists, writers, engineers, tinkerers, campers, filmmakers, volunteers. We make things. We help one another. We have fun. Join us ➚

This repository is where we store our Workshops, which are self-led learn-to-code tutorials, as well as our Code of Conduct.

🌈 Get Involved

We'd love to have you involved in the community:

• Start a Hack Club at your high school.

• Join the Hack Club Slack & get chatting with thousands of other young makers.

• Attend (or start!) a high school hackathon in your area.

• Make your project a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with 🏦 HCB.

• Ship a new project with one of our workshops.

🦦 Contributing on GitHub

Here on GitHub, there are many ways to contribute:

• Write a Hack Club workshop for clubs & hackers to build from.

• Draw a 🦕 dino & submit a PR to hackclub/dinosaurs.

• Create a game in 🍃 Sprig (we'll ship you a console!).

• Multilingual? Help us translate our site!

Check out contribute.hackclub.com for more active repositories & a guide to contributing.

✨ Our Philosophy

We think learning to code is uniquely like gaining a superpower: it converts you from a consumer to a creator, turning your computer into a tool for creation. If you’re reading this, you can learn to build an app—there’s never been a better time for making.

The goal of Hack Club is to help you develop your superpowers. We want an inclusive space on the internet & at every school where people are making interesting things with code, every week. In our online Slack (Discord-style online chatroom with 20K+ student members), you can ask coding questions, meet amazing friends, share projects you’re building, and so much more.

Hack Club is a community by and for teen hackers. Our software, past events, branding etc. have all been crafted by teenagers from around the world. We’re also an entirely open source organization—our website to even our finances are public.

🔗 Quick Hack Club links

Action	Link
💬 Join our Slack	hackclub.com/slack
✨ See our workshops	workshops.hackclub.com
📸 See what Hack Clubbers are making every day	scrapbook.hackclub.com
🗺️ Join a high-school hackathon nearby	hackathons.hackclub.com
🎒 Start a Hack Club at your school	apply.hackclub.com
🏦 Run an open-source project / event on HCB	hackclub.com/hcb
🦕 Draw a dino & join our GitHub	hack.af/draw-dino
💖 See our contribution guidelines	CONTRIBUTING.md
🙏 Read our code of conduct	hackclub.com/conduct
🎨 Use our logos & banners	hackclub.com/brand
🐦 Follow us on Twitter	twitter.com/hackclub

📜 License

TL;DR: all content is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license and all code is released under the MIT License. For the license's full text and attributions, please see LICENSE.

hackclub's Issues

Make it really easy to join our hackEDU channel

Perhaps the channel is already open in the tab of our website where you can see all of the chat happening and you can just join in by typing your name

Collect data from leaders and make sure club leaders have successors

Reach out to all of our club leaders and collect the following data:

• Is there a successor?
• Do we know them?
• Where are you going to college?
• Testimonial for hackEDU
• NPS for hackEDU
• Biggest problems they've faced as a club leader
  • Validate the assumption that the biggest thing is curriculum

Additionally, have all of the club leaders make a PR to add themselves to a club leaders CSV with their name and info.

Clean up migrated club playbook materials

I went ahead and moved the club playbook materials from https://github.com/hackedu/meta to here in 22c6cfb.

Can you go through these and reorganize/remove things as needed?

Create contract for Labs Program

FizzBuzz workshop

Put together a markdown lesson plan for the FizzBuzz workshop you're putting together. Would be great if you could resolve this with a PR.

Send out contracts and rejections

Send out all contracts and rejections by Tuesday (08/25)

Introduce all club leaders to Dave for interviews

Spreadsheet linked in https://github.com/hackedu/hackedu/tree/master/meta/labs_program.

/cc @jonleung @hellyeah

Figure out how to use cloud9 by sending a text message with Twilio through it

Let @jonleung or @cydrobolt know if you have any questions!

Paste a link to a read only version of the c9.io app here!

Schedule calls with the club leaders for each of our labs clubs

As mentioned in our https://github.com/hackedu/hackedu/blob/71508adc8c092b2c1059cfa88b04537197a54635/meta/labs_program/meetings/15-07-13_initial_brainstorm.md discussion, before diving too deep into the specifics of each semester, we'll want to schedule a discussion with all of the club leaders from each of the clubs in our labs program to learn as much as possible about how their club functioned last semester

Reading through http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec16/ on doing user interviews may be helpful when talking with them.

This issue depends on #30.

/cc @jonleung

Create a list of people that we are going to invite to the labs Program

As discussed, @zachlatta will add the first 12 names of clubs that he already came up with.

@zachlatta should ping me after he adds this list.

Every applicant in this list needs to have an associated "code name" that is like a heroku server generated name.

See this letter for potential phrasing: https://gist.github.com/jonleung/f5760ba7876adb07fd35

Prepare for call with Ashley + Alt School Person

Build an autonomous community for non-labs clubs.

Lesson structure document

Create a document that outlines how to format a given club meeting.

Create task list for prepping for first club meetings

Moved from hackclub/camp#500

Create bullet-point list of what needs to happen from now until first meeting for the following:

• @saescapa
• @xeonjake
• Lowell's club
• @amysorto

Put notes from each call (containing bullet points) in https://github.com/hackedu/hackedu/tree/master/meta/labs_program/meetings.
Track progress of this task (like saying when a call with one of the people is happening) by commenting on this issue.

Summer students fill out survey to be part of Founder class

Summer students fill out survey to be part of Founder class.

Can you add these guys to HS Hackers?

5/6 of them joined the HS Hackers FB Group:

Sean Fronteras
Eric Hon
Dawson Wu
Michelangelo Barbic
Miguel Hernandez
Justin Yee

Plan Lincoln club meeting

Perhaps this should go into https://github.com/hackedu/docs.

• Create meeting agenda
• Create post-meeting survey

@jonleung, @maxwofford

Study efficacy of other guides and boxes

1. Review the content of the boxes
2. Do user interviews on users of said boxes

• Coding Related
  • Girls who Code
    • Details
• Other Reproducible Models
  • CodeNow
    • Read contents
    • Talk to at least 10 years
  • CoderDojo
    • Read contents
    • Talk to at least 10 years
  • Teals
    • Read contents
    • Talk to at least 10 years
  • Google CS FIRST
    • Read contents
    • Talk to at least 10 years
  • CodeClub
    • Read contents
    • Talk to at least 10 years

Timeline

Create a timeline from now, April 2015, to August 2015 (initial iteration) for the club in a box.

• Find out what effective timelines for projects look like
• ???
• Profit (Orpheus)

Ask Github for private repos

Jonathan has a connection to someone who works at Github and will email that person.

Get all contracts signed

Email Jonathan the progress update that you communicated to Sooz

I am going to have a call with Sue's sometime this week and it would be good to be on the same page. It would be great if we can get this done end of day today.

EDIT BY @maxwofford: Changed to 1st person

Create title for Labs Program club organizer

EDIT:

For context, I think it could feel awesome to have an official title if you are in the labs program.

@zachlatta @maxwofford @hellyeah

You should have all physical and digital materials open and layed out.

• There is very limited time in a club meeting.
• Moreover, the more time it takes to do something in the club, members get distracted and the moment of the club meeting can be lost
• Therefore, if you can either do something X either in the club meeting or before the club meeting, opt to do it before the club meeting
• Example, if you have a demo app you want to show someone, opt for opening this in a tab before you enter the club meeting vs finding it and opening it during the club
• By having all these things open, it will trigger what you have to do so you won't forget

Example club constitution

Formerly hackedu/meta#23.

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As mentioned by @maxwofford in the old issue, it'd be great if we had an example club constitution. We could start with @raphaelrk's (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvuNDaJASLbuxoc2Q6NepYHOKejy0Az-Z6ikAhpYxlM/edit).

Create plan for non-labs program clubs

For the clubs that are not in the labs program:

• what will our interaction with them be?
• if they reach out for help, what will happen?

I scheduled a lunch meeting to discuss this tomorrow (Tuesday August 17th)

[cc @hellyeah, @zachlatta, @maxwofford, @andreadeng]

Create bullet point outline of what to cover in labs interview calls

Plan Lowell club meeting

Perhaps this should go into https://github.com/hackedu/docs.

• Create meeting agenda
• Create post-meeting survey

@jonleung, @maxwofford

Create Medium Publication for hackEDU

Visiting clubs on the East coast.

@jonleung what if we did a trip to the East coast and visited as many schools as we can before the school year ends?

We'd want to do this before finals as well, because they'll be super busy then.

Reach out to Abraham Lincoln high school

We have decided to run clubs in SF. We already have a relationship with Abraham Lincoln high school so it will be easier to reach out to them to resume our club.

I would personally recommend co-leading the club with one of their students.

EDIT by @maxwofford: I've removed the names

Week 1 Club Lessons!

This week I made a Twilio calling challenge in python that focuses on learning how to Google to say something out loud to deactivate a bomb. Will keep you guys posted on how it goes!

https://github.com/jonleung/Twilio-Calling-Challenge-part-2-of-twilio-sms-challenege-/blob/master/README.md

Make list of clubs/leaders to interview.

One of the things not mentioned in our https://github.com/hackedu/hackedu/blob/71508adc8c092b2c1059cfa88b04537197a54635/meta/labs_program/meetings/15-07-13_initial_brainstorm.md discussion, but that we'll need to do is actually selecting the 12 clubs to partake in our labs program going into next semester. Any thoughts on selection criteria?

Also, for those who aren't familiar with our labs program, some initial detail is in those meeting notes.

/cc @jonleung

Finish a draft of the club budget by April 30th

And just paste a readonly link to your budget here @xeonjake!

Create venue spreadsheet

Create a spreadsheet to track potential venues for hackEDU's summer program.

Rebranding

In IRC, @JacobEdelman said:

zrl: I think what I'd suggest is rebranding club-in-a-box to indicate its a place for discussion of all club related things, rather than just setting up a club, a specific folder of it could serve as a getting started guide. In general it could serve as a sort of collaborative wiki where any permanent content that comes out of discussions in the issues

This is the thread for discussing that.

Attendance sheet template

Create an attendance sheet template.

Improve and reformat Twilio workshops to make them accessible to club leaders

Come up with 3 projects that her club can work on and will write up a 3 sentence description.

Just paste in the descriptions into this issue!

@jonleung would be more than happy to talk through this with you!

Work with Max and Andrea to come up with how to break down work for the upcoming cohort.

Will ship a medium blogpost on how he got an internship offer

So excited for this!

Improve contribution guidelines

Our current contribution guidelines (in CONTRIBUTING.md) don't have everything in them.

Things to add:

• What a good pull request looks like
  • Perhaps include when to rebase?
• How to create discussions
• Ideas board
• Jonathan's ideas
  • what a good commit message is
  • squashing commits
  • using rebase vs merge
  • I wrote ^ those 3 bullet points because I've been critiqued on the fact that I should do the above, but the guide does not provide information on how specifically we may want to do these for hackEDU.

Week 1: Data Collection

Get out of the building

• OBJECTIVES
  • Find out
    • all the clubs that we have access to
    • when and for how much longer we can visit each club
    • biggest reasons for starting and joining clubs
    • biggest problems for starting, running and being part of a club
    • biggest wins for starting and joining a club
• METHODOLOGY
  • Flush this out more in details
    • @jonleung
    • @maxwofford
    • @zachlatta
  • CREATE DATA VESSELS:
    • Finish EXISTING CLUBS Spreadsheet this spreadsheet
      • Sheet 1: High School
      • Sheet 2: Students
    • Try adding
      • non-hackEDU clubs
      • non-hackEDU members
      • new-hackEDU clubs
      • new-hackEDU members
  • POPULATE :
    • On FB, find all high school friends & their high schools
      • @jonleung
      • @zachlatta
      • @maxwofford
    • Hackathon Data
      • HackGenY
      • HS Hacks
      • Gunn Hacks
      • CodeDay
      • Figure Out Any Missing Hackathons
    • Pu
  • COLLECTION:
    • EXISTING STUDENTS FIRST
      • Create all theq questions you need to ask them
        • To learn from them
        • Prepare for visiting them
        • Getting their phone contact info
        • Who is going to college? Which colleges?
        • If applicable, who is taking over leadership of the club
        • What are you doing over the summer?
      • For new clubs
        • Do you have a coding club at your school?
          • NO? (Link it to "No Club")
            • Would you be interested in starting a club?
            • What day of the week is your school?
            • I'd love to come visit, who should I talk to for that?
          • YES?
            • Are you a club officer?
              • if YES
                • Soft
                  • Why did you start a club?
                  • Biggest blocking issues currently, previosly?
                  • Who have you gotten to join your club?
                  • Why do you think they joined?
                • Hard
                  • What is the name of your school?
                  • Is this the address of the school?
                  • What day of the week do you guys meet? What time?
                  • Which dates will you have club meetings on?
                  • When are some good days to visit
              • if NO
                • why did you join a club
                • how did they hear about the club
                • what do you hope to get out of it

It's not clear how to use GitHub issues in CONTRIBUTING.md

Perhaps link https://guides.github.com/features/issues/?

Convince club leaders that diverse leadership gives them an advantage

Calls first applicant

Invites them to an interview with @jonleung

@jonleung will also be on the call

Write out objective for labs program and clubs we're running in SF

Moved from hackclub/camp#501

Create guidelines to handle wait-listed non-labs clubs

500 - TODO - You need to make an issue for this discussion!

Finish at least 1 Github tutorial

It would also be great if you could leave a review of which git tutorials you found helpful and not helpful!