Funding $5 per hour teenager projects for the services they need

Hack Club, a nonprofit network of student coding clubs, announced a new program offering teenagers $5 per hour in grant cards to fund external services such as OpenAI, Hetzner, Claude, Mapbox, and Geocode for their projects. The program, named 'APIs', runs from September 8th to September 10th, 2026, and requires participants to submit their projects via a linked form and join the Hack Club Slack channel.

{ "name": "apis", "ysws": { "you ship": "A project using an external service like Mapbox, OpenAI or Geocode", "we ship": "$5 Grant Card for every hour you work on your project for any service you need for your projects OpenAI, Hetzner, Claude, Mapbox, Geocode " }, "starts": "September 8th, 2026 12:00 AM EDT", "ends": "September 10th, 2026 12:00 AM EDT", "slack channel": "https://hackclub.enterprise.slack.com/archives/C0C0J3J3KSQ", "submission link": "https://forms.hackclub.com/apis-submission-link" }