The Hack Club Media Gap Year Fellowship brings teenage filmmakers around the world to tell the stories of the next generation of hackers.
Full-time, in-person · June 2026 - August 2027, $50k/year · $10k travel + $5k equipment budget
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This is a paid, full-time, in-person role from June 2026 - August 2027. $50k/year + $5k equipment stipend + $10k travel + healthcare & benefits at Hack Club HQ in Burlington, Vermont.
It's intended to be something you do for a year before you go to college or whatever your plans
are after high school, but if you are on an alternate schooling path, that works too!
You will be based at Hack Club HQ, working on projects and making videos with the team, as
well as travelling all over the world to different Hack Club events!
The job: Make Hack Club a household name. Reach new audiences and as many teens as you can.
We are a 501(c)(3) global non-profit organization based in the United States. We host real adventures, run online programs, and provide community for technical teenagers! Every year, our community creates thousands of amazing projects, and we ship out thousands of cool prizes, from stickers to laptops to plushies of our mascot!
Fallout: An upcoming hardware hackathon taking place in Shenzhen, China this summer!
Shipwrecked: A four-day hackathon on a private island we organized last summer!
A 3 day flagship game jam in Los Angeles with YouTubers like Michael Reeves, William Osman, and many more!
A murder-mystery hackathon held in Austria, Vienna with 60+ teenagers from all across the world!
From October 2025 to March 2026, Blueprint gave $140,000 to fund 1,500 hardware and electronics projects built by 1000 teenagers from 77 countries!
A 14 week event where 250 teens created a project each week to work towards a laptop with over 100 Framework laptops given out!
this is why you should do a hack club gap year. →
The plan for hack club world dominance (rundown on Hack Club!) →
Hack Club hosts hundreds of events across the globe every year. You'll promote, attend, document, and create content for them.
You'll have full control over our social media presence across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and more, to post about all the amazing people you'll meet.
You'll join 40 technical teenage gap years from across the USA and world who design and run all of Hack Club's programs. Every program above was ran by 18 and 19 year old gap years at Hack Club.