make projects get prizes.

How does this work?

1. sign up

Sign up with email, and also sign up for Hack Club Slack to join our awesome community.

2. design/draw!

Think of your project... try illustration? 3D modeling? wireframes? Learn to make some cool art for your project!

3. code it up

Turn your ideas into code! Use whatever frameworks, languages, and tools you want.

4. track your time

You need to track time to get prizes. Coding? Setup Hackatime! Drawing? Use Lapse.

5. publish your project!

Let anyone on the internet see your beautiful creation... (with Vercel, GitHub Pages, itch.io, etc!)

6. SUBMIT (for prizes!)

Yay yay yay get a wonderful prize for your efforts

Prizes

Here's a look into some of the stuff you can get!

Drawing Tablet

Great budget art option :D

Ipad

to art, play games or do anything you want!

More

Join #ascension on hack club slack and you can suggest more prizes for us to put on the shop!

Digital Camera

Snap a photo with your friends

Figma pro

Woah more than 3 shared designs??

FAQ

Ascension is a program promoting creators to make art for their coding projects! Learn to draw, make creative projects, and get coins that you can spend in the shop for prizes.

Anyone aged 13-18 can participate! You will need to verify your identity before being able to purchase items in the shop.

Yes! Ascension is a Hack Club program. Hack Club is NOT actually about hacking, It's a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that's organized many events for teenagers around the world, whether that be a gaming pop-up cafe in China, a hackathon on an island, or a scavenger hunt around New York. We're backed by tech companies like GitHub, AMD, and more; you can learn more on hackclub.com.

Participating in Ascension is completely free!

Submit your projects and wait for them to be reviewed by someone on our team. Once your project is approved, you'll be rewarded coins based on the amount of hours you spent on it.

Yes! Ascension is under Hack Club, a 501(c) non-profit aimed at helping teens like you create personal projects!

Nope, all projects submitted to ascension must not be submitted to any other program.

AI is not allowed at all for art. If you use AI to create the art (music, character sprites, website backgrounds, game dialogue, etc.) for your project, your project will be rejected. If you're using AI to help you debug, speed up your workflow, or learn something about coding, make sure you can understand the AI code. When you're done your project, you will be required to write about if/how you used AI.

Ascension is for creators of all skill levels! We're working on tutorials to follow if it's your first time, and you can always ask for help in #ascension-help or DM our team. No worries if you're never done this before!

A group of ~6 teenagers from around the world! :)

Enter your email at the top of the page!!

AI usage is allowed but only to a certain extent, refer to this doccument for further details: [insert doc]

Still confused? Ask in the #ascension channel on Slack and we'll help you out, or contact someone on the team!