Hack Clubs allow creative students to create technical projects. Tools such as GitHub (maintained by Microsoft), Figma (maintained by Adobe) are widely used in the tech industry and play a vital role in empowering creators. Hack Clubs around the world use these tools for their projects, but sometimes schools or districts may block them. As a Hack Club leader, you can contact your school or district’s IT department to request that they unblock these websites, so your Hack Club can do what they do best: build awesome projects together.

Some Hack Club leaders need to convince administrators who don't understand how a Hack Club is different from any other type of CS club that might already exist at the school.

You can check out all of these letters below.

These letters can be used for most situations where a teacher is skeptical about Hack Club.

Most schools require a club to have an adult advisor to handle paperwork, secure a space, and supervise meetings. These guides walk you through finding the right person, reaching out, and pitching your Hack Club so you can get one on board.

When your school blocks the tools your Hack Club needs, these guides help you get them unblocked, from knowing who to ask in your IT department to making the case for why a site should be opened up.