Flavortown - Hack Club

What past chefs say

18 year old Hack Clubber from 🇯🇵Japan

I spent over 400 hours at High Seas ... and connected with people from all over the world ... these led to incredible opportunities, like participating in DEFCON...

17 year old Hack Clubber from 🇮🇳India

I found a community of teens working on incredible projects, which helped me out of my comfort zone, from just software to even hardware and automation.

15 year old Hack Clubber from 🇯🇵Japan

SoM made me do the largest and hardest personal project I've ever done. The community is inspiring, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm trying to right now without it (making my first flight computer)!

15 year old Hack Clubber from 🇪🇸Spain

Summer of Making was the first time I was participating in something like that. I even shipped 2 crazy projects, I didn't even know I could do something like that. That was the best experience in my life so far. ^-^

18 year old Hack Clubber from 🇯🇵Japan

I spent over 400 hours at High Seas ... and connected with people from all over the world ... these led to incredible opportunities, like participating in DEFCON...

17 year old Hack Clubber from 🇮🇳India

I found a community of teens working on incredible projects, which helped me out of my comfort zone, from just software to even hardware and automation.

17 year old Hack Clubber from 🇯🇵Japan

High Seas motivated me to start my own Hack Club ... it’s also helped me grow, making me less shy, more connected, and even making friends online and in real life.

17 year old Hack Clubber from 🇪🇬Egypt

One of the best events I’ve ever joined ... I met amazing people and finally found motivation ... huge thanks to everyone who made High Seas such a special experience!

18 year old Hack Clubber from the 🇬🇧UK

Summer of Making gave me so much more than just prizes. Over the summer, I made projects that were a mix of fun (a chess-like esolang called C), genuinely useful (Grafana dashboard for #summer-of-making-help), and challenging (learning Postgres + Prisma for a multiplayer web app). I managed to get a Flipper Zero, which I originally thought would be far out of my reach, and met some of my favourite Hack Clubbers. Thanks y'all <3>

18 year old Hack Clubber from 🇺🇸America

I was absolutely terrified of shipping anything before Summer of Making (god forbid my projects are perceived) and so even though I made projects, I never published anything. Summer of Making encouraged me to get out of my comfort zone and try new mediums of making, but most importantly taught me that the internet is a friendlier place than I thought and that my work deserves to be seen.

18 year old Hack Clubber from 🇯🇵Japan

I spent over 400 hours at High Seas ... and connected with people from all over the world ... these led to incredible opportunities, like participating in DEFCON...

17 year old Hack Clubber from 🇮🇳India

I found a community of teens working on incredible projects, which helped me out of my comfort zone, from just software to even hardware and automation.

15 year old Hack Clubber from 🇯🇵Japan

SoM made me do the largest and hardest personal project I've ever done. The community is inspiring, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm trying to right now without it (making my first flight computer)!

15 year old Hack Clubber from 🇪🇸Spain

Summer of Making was the first time I was participating in something like that. I even shipped 2 crazy projects, I didn't even know I could do something like that. That was the best experience in my life so far. ^-^

18 year old Hack Clubber from 🇯🇵Japan

I spent over 400 hours at High Seas ... and connected with people from all over the world ... these led to incredible opportunities, like participating in DEFCON...

17 year old Hack Clubber from 🇮🇳India

I found a community of teens working on incredible projects, which helped me out of my comfort zone, from just software to even hardware and automation.

17 year old Hack Clubber from 🇯🇵Japan

High Seas motivated me to start my own Hack Club ... it’s also helped me grow, making me less shy, more connected, and even making friends online and in real life.

17 year old Hack Clubber from 🇪🇬Egypt

One of the best events I’ve ever joined ... I met amazing people and finally found motivation ... huge thanks to everyone who made High Seas such a special experience!

18 year old Hack Clubber from the 🇬🇧UK

Summer of Making gave me so much more than just prizes. Over the summer, I made projects that were a mix of fun (a chess-like esolang called C), genuinely useful (Grafana dashboard for #summer-of-making-help), and challenging (learning Postgres + Prisma for a multiplayer web app). I managed to get a Flipper Zero, which I originally thought would be far out of my reach, and met some of my favourite Hack Clubbers. Thanks y'all <3>

18 year old Hack Clubber from 🇺🇸America

I was absolutely terrified of shipping anything before Summer of Making (god forbid my projects are perceived) and so even though I made projects, I never published anything. Summer of Making encouraged me to get out of my comfort zone and try new mediums of making, but most importantly taught me that the internet is a friendlier place than I thought and that my work deserves to be seen.

What will you cook this winter?

Build whatever you want!

Any technical project counts. You could build an AR game, pixel art display, drawing robot, and more.

Check out these projects for inspiration:

The Dressed Mole-Rat's website

mole rat

This is my personal website! The code is written by me, a human person, and I made it to express myself, improve at coding, and to have somewhere to post stuff! :)

Embedded Engine

ArcaEge

A Rust-based monochrome pixel game engine that can be compiled to both web assembly and to a RP2040 microcontroller.

Dimensity

justdanielndev

CLI-over-CLI tool that improves how the terminal looks, uses an alternative history system, explains error codes.

Dreamland.js

Toshit

A utilitarian web framework with refreshing state management.

Hydra

SamoZ256

A Nintendo Switch emulator for macOS.

Chat Patches

OBro1961

A Minecraft Fabric client-side mod that touches up a few aspects of Minecraft's mundane chat, with as much configurability as possible!

Not sure what to make?

Order some ideas from our cooks - get silly ideas to make a fun project in a few hours!

penne for your thoughts?

FAQ

Who is eligible?

Flavortown is for highschoolers! You need to be 13-18 years old to participate.

How much does it cost?

100% free* - all the prizes are donated to us or paid for by us! *customs might occur outside of the US

What types of projects count?

All kinds of technical projects as long as it's open-source!

How many projects can I build?

There's no limit! Cook as much as you can!

Is this legit?

Yup! This summer we ran Summer of Making, and before that we ran High Seas—both programs gave out similar prizes for building personal projects.

I've got more questions...

You can email us at flavortown@hackclub.com! We'll try and respond to everything within two days :)

A project by Hack Club

Hack Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and network of 60k+ 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 Summer of Making, hosted the world's longest hackathon on land, and ran Canada's largest high school hackathon.

At Hack Club, students aren't just learning, they're shipping.

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Cook personal projects. Win free prizes.

Ages 13-18. Dec 22 to March 31.

19 or older? Get the same prizes by referring teens.

Previously, we hosted...

Summer of Making

Summer 2025

High Seas

Winter 2024

Arcade

Summer 2024

For Summer of Making...

10,000

high schoolers participated

500,000

hours logged

99,999

total prizes shipped

That's including:

653 iPads

653 iPads

653 iPads

653 iPads

653 iPads

and more!

18 year old Hack Clubber from 🇯🇵Japan

I spent over 400 hours at High Seas ... and connected with people from all over the world ... these led to incredible opportunities, like participating in DEFCON...

17 year old Hack Clubber from 🇮🇳India

I found a community of teens working on incredible projects, which helped me out of my comfort zone, from just software to even hardware and automation.

15 year old Hack Clubber from 🇯🇵Japan

SoM made me do the largest and hardest personal project I've ever done. The community is inspiring, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm trying to right now without it (making my first flight computer)!

15 year old Hack Clubber from 🇪🇸Spain

Summer of Making was the first time I was participating in something like that. I even shipped 2 crazy projects, I didn't even know I could do something like that. That was the best experience in my life so far. ^-^

18 year old Hack Clubber from 🇯🇵Japan

I spent over 400 hours at High Seas ... and connected with people from all over the world ... these led to incredible opportunities, like participating in DEFCON...

17 year old Hack Clubber from 🇮🇳India

I found a community of teens working on incredible projects, which helped me out of my comfort zone, from just software to even hardware and automation.

17 year old Hack Clubber from 🇯🇵Japan

High Seas motivated me to start my own Hack Club ... it’s also helped me grow, making me less shy, more connected, and even making friends online and in real life.

17 year old Hack Clubber from 🇪🇬Egypt

One of the best events I’ve ever joined ... I met amazing people and finally found motivation ... huge thanks to everyone who made High Seas such a special experience!

18 year old Hack Clubber from the 🇬🇧UK

18 year old Hack Clubber from 🇺🇸America

Build whatever you want!

Check out these projects for inspiration:

The Dressed Mole-Rat's website

Embedded Engine

Dimensity

Dreamland.js

Hydra

Chat Patches

Not sure what to make?

A project by Hack Club

Hack Club

Resources