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We are teen hackers from around the world who code together

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Re: We are teen hackers from around the world who code together

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Does this exist for adults/non-teens? And not in the professional, career sense but a chiller, more human sense.

The Ruby Meetup I attend used to have hack nights once a month where you could work on what you wanted.

Makerspaces might be a good place to contact?

Re: We are teen hackers from around the world who code together

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Does grey hair hacker club exists somewhere ? Need to join.

Are those that are keeping their color but suffering from rapidly receding lines allowed to join too?

I'm sure someone will chime in to say there are plenty of these "clubs" but honestly, I grew up in a small town with no real "hacker" peers then have gotten so bogged down with work (and worked in areas without HUGE cultures like this) that I'm now starting to feel quite disconnected.

I just want to make silly things, learn some new skills and have fun -- having a "Safe" space to share that would be a boon.

Re: We are teen hackers from around the world who code together

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HackClub is great. I feel like I aged out of their target demographics recently though.

I can share my single and very positive experience with them. In summer 2020 (I was 18 then), they were going to host/sponsor some hackathons (IIRC), but because of Covid they couldn’t do that so instead they gave away that money to students who had some project idea. If your project was accepted you got $100 for it - but you had to share the result with the community.

I applied and got that 100, and used it to make a remote-controlled mobility scooter [0] with my friend. Not the most useful thing in the world but it was ton of fun!

[0]: https://youtu.be/WWUe42dH6nw

Re: We are teen hackers from around the world who code together

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Hey! I work here. Happy to answer any questions!

We'd be happy to help some of these kids do Show HNs of their projects. Would that be of interest?

Absolutely - they’d fit right in here. My email is malted@hackclub.com.

Re: We are teen hackers from around the world who code together

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this is so cool. hats off to the creators. I bet it's a ton of logistics to manage. I surfed around the site but couldn't find any information re: volunteering with them? I wonder if they need them and what kind of commitment it would be? I'd be interested!

They mostly seem to be "by and for high schoolers". This is what I was told when I was asking how I could help with my son setting something up.

Re: We are teen hackers from around the world who code together

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Does this exist for adults/non-teens? And not in the professional, career sense but a chiller, more human sense.

So, I ran a few of those, called them Hacking Society. In Fort Collins we have a Linux Users Group that meets on Tuesdays, in Boulder it meets on Thursdays. So the remaining Tue/Thu of the month I would secure space, often at a coffee shop, for us to get together and work on projects. It has worked very well, I did it for ~20 years, I know the Fort Collins one is still going strong. If you want a location page on HackingSociety.org, let me know and we'll figure out a way to set you up one.

But mostly it's about just finding and announcing a place with a regular schedule. For the first ~10 years, I took "meeting notes" about what people did, which I felt helped keep people in mind of the "working on projects" component.

Re: We are teen hackers from around the world who code together

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Hey! I work here. Happy to answer any questions!

Couple of questions:

1) I see the mention of highschool throughout, what about younger hackers that are 13+ (7th & 8th grade)?

2) The directory (https://directory.hackclub.com/) is not working for me. Are there existing clubs in Asia? Specifically Taipei, Taiwan.

Re: We are teen hackers from around the world who code together

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Does grey hair hacker club exists somewhere ? Need to join.

Are those that are keeping their color but suffering from rapidly receding lines allowed to join too? I'm sure someone will chime in to say there are plenty of these "clubs" but honestly, I grew up in a small town with no real "hacker" peers then have gotten so bogged down with work (and worked in areas without HUGE cultures like this) that I'm now starting to feel quite disconnected. I just want to make silly things…

Perhaps there is one in your area: https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

I'm in Asia so no luck, but on the bright side, tools are quite affordable here.

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