By Hack Club, for teens 13–18
Make projects. Get prizes.
The largest STEM event of the summer:
make anything you want and earn free prizes.
Sign up to get free Stardance stickers mailed to you!
Join 9,558 teens already building!
in partnership with
NASA
What is this?
Stardance is a free online summer program for teens 13–18. Build any technical project you want (websites, games, apps, hardware), log your hours, and earn real prizes: Raspberry Pis, 3D printers, even a laptop. No experience needed. Guides and a community of over 100,000 teens are there to help you get started.
It runs June 1 – September 30, with weekly drops, freebies, and AMAs with astronauts. Run by Hack Club, a nonprofit that’s shipped 10,000+ prizes to teen makers in 119 countries.
Curious about Hack Club? Learn more about our donors or other programs.
Here’s how.
No judges, no winners. Just build something and get rewarded for it.
1. Make projects
Build any website, game, app, hardware of your liking. No experience required.
New to coding?
Don't worry — we have guides for complete beginners!
2. Gain stardust
Publish projects
Ship your project into the world for others to see! Anything open-source counts.
Get feedback
Your project gets rated by other teens. The higher your rating, the more stardust you earn.
3. Earn prizes!
Spend your stardust in the shop and we’ll ship prizes to you. Free for teens, funded by donations.
For example —
Here’s what this project might get as a prize.
Earns 270 stardust
Domain grant
80 stardust
Raspberry Pi 5
190 stardust
*Stardust price of items may vary per region.
Get these in a weekend.
By the end of this weekend, you can get something real. Here’s what a few hours can get you.
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~13h · ikea blahaj plush
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~3h · pack of stickers
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~9h · keebcard (keyboard + display keychain)
What is Hack Club?
Hack Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides in-person experiences and physical rewards to encourage more students to build and publish engineering projects.
We’re a network of 100,000+ high schoolers in 119 countries, and a global community of teenage makers who learn to code by actually building things. You learn by shipping real projects, getting stuck, asking for help, and figuring it out together.
Artists, engineers, hardware enthusiasts, game devs: everyone’s welcome, and nobody needs experience to start.
Curious about Hack Club? Learn more about our philosophy, donors or other programs.
And we make big things happen
Hack Club has been running both online events and in-person hackathons for years, take a look at some of our recent highlights!
Student led game jams on the same day in 100 cities worldwide, from London to NYC to Penang, Malaysia.
Watch the video!
Over 150 of the most unique and awesome projects, designed and built by teenagers. Games, hardware, apps, art. Explore them all.
See the projects
A Hack Club | AMD robotics hackathon, and the winning team presented their project on stage at CES 2026 with Lisa Su, CEO of AMD.
Watch the video!
Trusted by hundreds of schools and students.
Previously, we ran High Seas, Summer of Making, Flavortown, all with a similar model. Here’s what happened.
5,000+
high schoolers participated
250,000+
hours of creative building submitted
10,000
prizes shipped to 119 countries & 49 US states
Supported by our partners
FAQ
1.
Who is eligible?
Stardance is for highschoolers! You need to be 13-18 years old to participate.
2.
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
*customs might occur outside of the US
3.
What types of projects count?
All kinds of technical projects as long as it’s open-source!
4.
How many projects can I build?
There’s no limit! Dance as much as you can!
5.
Is this legit?
Yup. We’re Hack Club, a nonprofit that’s been running programs like this for years.
Past rounds: Arcade, High Seas, Summer of Making, and Flavortown.
Teens build projects, we send out real prizes. Stardance is this summer’s round.
6.
I’ve got more questions...
You can email us at [email protected]! We’ll try and respond to everything within two days :)
Make this summer count.
What else are you gonna do?
Sign up and build something you’re actually proud of.
For all teens aged 13–18.