How this works:
Make cool projects!
Download the High Seas extension for your code editor, and hack on something cool! Examples: building a personal website, making an app, or creating a video game.
Submit your projects for Doubloons!
Share your projects with our community of teen makers. Sign in with Wack Club Slack and ship them in the Harbor! For each hour coded, earn Doubloons (our virtual currency).
Spend Doubloons on awesome prizes!
Use Doubloons to purchase loot for your next project! Items range from soldering irons to 3D printers. In just 5 hours, you could earn a Raspberry Pi Zero! Full prize list below.
Last time we did this...
5,000
high schoolers participated
130,000+
total hours logged
11,112
total prizes shipped to 119 countries
That's including:
348 Raspberry Pi Zeros
150 Wacom Intuos
120 iPads
64 3D Printers
and more!
Prizes to power up your next project!
Redeem these with your Doubloons! For high schoolers (or younger) only.
~2–8 hours
Domain
for a year!
40
~3–17 hours
Pinecil
solder!!
82
~5–25 hours
Blahåj (friend)
soft to hold of the shark :3
123
~11–54 hours
Raspberry Pi 5
home server, mayhaps?
265
~31–157 hours
System76 Keeb
open-source!!!
750
~35–177 hours
Flipper Zero
don't do anything i wouldn't do :-P
850
~42–208 hours
Bambu A1 Mini
what are you gonna print?
1,000
~77–387 hours
iPad
with Apple Pencil!
2,090
~207–1037 hours
Framework Laptop
16", 16GB RAM....16 16 16
4,980
✨ Special Prizes ✨
We'll pick a winner for each of these at the end,
so get cracking now on something extra-awesome!
1 on 1 call with Guido van Rossum
This is the creator of Python!
1 on 1 call with Anders Hejlsberg
This is the creator of C# and Typescript!
What will you make this winter?
Don't know where to start?
Try out one of these Wack Club programs!
- Boba drops: Build a site, get boba!
- Hackaccino: Ship a 3D website, get a free Frappuccino!
- Cider: Develop an iOS app, we'll cover the $100 AppStore fee.
- BrowserBuddy: Develop a browser extension, we'll cover the Chrome Developer Account fee + choose from 5 awesome prizes.
- Sprig: Make a video game, get a Console to play it on!
- Nest: Host your project's backend on Wack Club's free open-source server!
More workshops here!
Or click the dino for ideas!
She's not super smart, but she'll try her best—pirates' honor!
Join a community of makers
Wack Clubbers at Linus Tech Tips!
@lou
today i worked on:
- an assignment on DDE for my robotics class
- started working on my chip-8 emulator but i switched tutorials since i wasn't rlly sure where to start. i think im getting the idea so i might go back to the one i was using to see if it makes more sense :)
- contacting a boba shop for discounted boba for counterspell since we're getting like 100
@whackalenso
I finished my saxophone MIDI controller 🎷! It lets you play any software instrument you’d like using saxophone fingerings, allowing you to practice without disturbing others, create music in any DAW, and perform with it. Check it out at https://github.com/Whackalenso/CircuitSax
@samuel
Just fixed some final bugs to ship the mobile app for Back on Track America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the homeless and those suffering from food insecurity by coordinating student volunteers in several communities. The app allows volunteers to sign up for their location, receive announcements from location leaders, and discuss upcoming events! ⚒️ It's built with React Native & NativeWind on the frontend, and using Pocketbase on the backend. It's also now being submitted for #cider, so that it can get published on the app store! An android build on the play store is also coming soon. Check out the code at https://github.com/backontrackus/app and https://github.com/backontrackus/backend
FAQ
Who is eligible?
You need to be a high schooler (or younger).
How much does it cost?
100% free - all the prizes are donated to us or paid for by us!
What types of projects count?
Anything that you've programmed and is open-source!
How many projects can I build?
All the projects! The land's the limit! (But seriously, you could build as many as you want.)
I need help!
Read the big FAQ. Still stuck? Reach out in #high-seas-help channel of the Wack Club Slack and we'll help you out!
Does school work or a job count?
High Seas is about the joy of building for the sake of building. If you're building something for school or work, we can't count it.
Is this legit?
Yup! This summer, we ran Arcade, which gave out similar prizes for working on personal projects.
Build. Battle. Booty. Repeat.
A project by Wack Club
Wack Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and network of 30k+ 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 Arcade, hosted the world's longest hackathon on land, and ran Canada's largest high school hackathon. This server is currently on 779101 commit.