Jan 9th–10th, 2027US and Canada
Learn how to build your first cosy corner of the internet! Come along to one of our 20+ website jams across the US and Canada, and we’ll show you how! Make lifelong friends on the day, and invite your own to pop along too!
Personal websites are special, they’re your customisable corner of the internet!
They are super easy to learn how to make. Never coded before? Not a designer? Not a clue where to get started? No worries, we’ll help you learn how!
Sign up for a Cocoa event near you!
Bring your friends along (or make new ones on the day)!
Learn from our workshops, enjoy free food, snacks and merch!
Build your own customisable corner of the internet, and share with the world!
Cocoa is a beginner friendly in-person event running in 20+ cities across the US and Canada. Teens come together, build lifelong friendships, and make their first website together, with the help of our workshops, resources, and mentors!
Any teen aged between 13 and 18, no prior experience required! You don’t need to be a member of Hack Club, or belong to one of our coding clubs!
Yes! Hack Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps teens build real, technical projects at no cost! Food, snacks, merch, and good vibes are all included!
Yes! Cocoa is designed and targeted for beginners! We’ll have workshops on the day, designed to help you through your first coding project - a personal website. Our friendly event organisers will also be on hand to help answer questions, and mentor you throughout the day!
By the end of Cocoa, you will have designed and built your first personal website, published on the internet for all to see!
You’ll need to bring a Laptop, charger, and of course, yourself! We’ll bring the food, snacks, merch, and good vibes! Please note, we are unable to loan any equipment on the day, so make sure you bring everything you’ll need!
Cocoa will run a little differently to previous satellite events by Hack Club. Personal websites are personal by their very nature, and everyone will make their own website!
Cocoa is running across 20+ cities across the US and Canada, scroll up to see the map of where all our events are located!
Sign up with your email on the Cocoa website (you’re already here!), then pick the event that’s closest to you!
We’re happy to help! We understand that parents and guardians will have many questions about Cocoa, and we’d love to help answer them! We have a parents guide, and if your parent or guardian can’t find the answer to their question, or just wants to speak to an adult, they are more than welcome to drop us an email and we’ll get in touch!
Anyone in the US and Canada can apply to organize a Cocoa event! Events and their point of contact will be handpicked from the pool of applications, with priority given to teams with past experience running events or building personal websites.
Never ran an event before? We’re looking for enthusiasm above all else, so please still apply!
Cocoa gives you a unique opportunity to make a difference in your community, and help introduce people to the magic of Hack Club and learning how to code. Leading an event is hard, but we’re here to help support and guide you throughout the process!
You’ll get approximately two months to plan your event, starting from when events are confirmed on the 9th of November 2026, to the event running between the 9th and 10th of January in 2027.
Many schools across the country accept the hours spent organizing events as community service! We’re happy to provide documentation if your school needs it!
Once we’ve hand picked our events and points of contacts (POCs), you are welcome to reach out directly to the POC for the event’s organizing team to ask to join!
Funding is released once you’ve reached 25 signups and confirmed your event’s venue. Funding is paid into your event’s HCB account per signup automatically from then on!
Feel free to drop any questions in #cocoa on the Hack Club Slack, #cocoa-organisers for event orgs, or email us at [email protected]!
