Ahoy mateys! 👋
Happy summer break! It's been a heater here at HQ with a couple of 90+ degree days. 🥵 As a person born and raised in the north, this is simply unacceptable. Anyone able to code me a more comfortable climate?
Okay, back to being realistic. Many clubs are taking a short hiatus from meeting during this time, but in case you aren't, here's some content you could use for your warm weather meetings! ☀️
(FYI: You're receiving this email because you're a club leader or in the process of becoming one.)
Build stuff. Get stuff. Repeat.
For you: Build personal coding projects and earn shells. 🐚 Spend these on awesome prizes like Raspberry Pis, server hosting credits, 3D printers, or other tools to fuel your next creation!
For your club: Use this to encourage your members to improve their skills and build projects, or pick a topic and have everyone build a project relating to it! YSWS projects count for this event as well, if you have beginners, get them started with Boba, Swirl, Toppings, Grub, or Waffles!
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Organize and Manage the Club!
We have a new dashboard to help manage your club! Through this you can; manage members, schedule activities, find resources, and manage grants received from participating in YSWS projects.
This also includes an area for general project submissions! Want your club to work on a topic not available in the current YSWS collection? DO IT! Submit these through the dashboard and earn $5 per hour for each project.
Check it out:
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Give feedback or request features:
Introduce the Club to JavaScript! 🧇
If your club has worked through the other web dev YSWS, they should be feeling comfortable with HTML and CSS by this point. Now it's time to introduce them to JavaScript! Here's a guide for you to use as a visual in your meetings and help members walkthrough these new concepts.
We will send your club $10 for every website including:
- 2+ webpages
- 5+ HTML and CSS features on each
- 3+ JavaScript functions on each
See the requirements
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Oscillart is a YSWS for the Athena Awards. In this, you create an app that designs art and music based off of your favorite songs and melodies. Plus, you get the opportunity to integrate science, math, art, and tech! By spending 5-6 hours creating your web app, you'll earn artifacts you can redeem for prizes such as Framework Laptops, iPads, Steam subscriptions, and more. In addition, if you code 3 projects and spend a total of 30 hours coding you qualify for our New York hackathon!!! To earn artifacts, you must be a girl or nonbinary teen, i.e. someone who can qualify for the Athena Awards.
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🚨 In Case You Missed It: Hack Club's Athena Award is a growing community of 600+ teenage girls and non-binary programmers open to all levels. Students learn to build technical projects together, attend coding competitions and get help from other members, mentorship from experienced programmers and weekly workshops. Here's how it works:
- Build 3 technical projects and code for 30 hours. Win prizes along the way.
- Earn an invite to travel to NYC for the BIGGEST all-girls hackathon.
- Get a certificate in collaboration with MIT, GitHub and Girls Who Code.
👩💻 The Athena Initiative also hosts free beginner friendly hackathons led by and for girls/non binary teens in tech, these projects can count towards the Athena Award! Here's where we're heading this summer:
👾 JPEG, Ottawa's first 25 hour All-Girls game jam: July 5th-6th 🌌 Aurora in San Francisco, STEM Camp for Girls and non-binary teens: July 18th-20th
Hack Club Events 🎤
📚 July 5th - Kahoot 🎤 July 9th - AMA with Alexa Kayman (Founder of Bagel Fund)
If your club is meeting over the summer, let me know! I'd love to send you something for taking the time to meet during everyone's break! Also, stay tuned for the next newsletter, which will be written by a fellow club leader - Afonso!
Fair winds and following seas ⛵️ 🌊 - @jps
Jared Senesac
Club Operations Lead, Hack Club
jared@hackclub.com
