- Jackie Coates - CEO, Telstra Foundation
Ten years ago, Telstra Foundation – powering Code Club Australia – launched a small coding challenge with a big ambition: to help young people around the world build digital skills and confidence.
What started with a few Scratch projects and a handful of curious kids has grown into a global movement.
🚀 The numbers say it all!
Over the past nine years:
- 275,000+ kids have participated in Moonhack
- From 69 countries
- Completing 100,000+ coding projects
- In over 40 languages
- In 2024 59% of Moonhack coders were girls
🎉 10 Years of Impact
Moonhack has helped hundreds of thousands of kids build coding skills, solve problems, and dream big. From classrooms in Sri Lanka to community centres in the Torres Strait, and classrooms in Tehran, Moonhack has become a yearly ritual of creativity, curiosity, and connection.
But it’s never just been about code. It’s about equity, access, and belonging. Giving every child the chance to say: I built this. I belong here.
And it’s even more critical in today’s AI-powered world, the skills young people build in this challenge matter more than ever. As our own Kaye North, Community Engagement manager for Code Club Australia puts it:
“It’s easy to fall into the role of a passive user, but when kids learn to code, all that changes. Coding helps young people move from consuming technology to creating with it – building the confidence to shape the digital world, not just react to it.”
💫 Why we love Moonhack
- It’s free, fun, and future-focused.
- It brings together kids from remote First Nations communities to urban classrooms in Canada, Sri Lanka, Iraq, and beyond.
- It’s powered by volunteers, teachers, parents, and Telstra people—especially our Data and Analytics community, who’ve translated projects into over 40 languages.
- It’s a platform for First Nations storytelling, like the constellation of Tagai and the Dark Emu, reimagined through code.
🛠️ Get involved
🟣 STEP 1: REGISTER
Sign up at moonhack.com so your coders are counted!
Watch the “How to Moonhack” video to get started.
🟣 STEP 2: PLAN
Choose your project(s) from six climate-themed coding challenges.
Test your tech and try a project yourself—it’s fun!
🟣 STEP 3: MOONHACK!
Run your event between 14–31 October.
Support your coders, share your progress, and celebrate creativity.
🟣 STEP 4: DEBRIEF
Submit your projects, download certificates, and celebrate your impact.
Check back in December to see the winners!
🚀Our mission
At Telstra Foundation, we believe every child deserves the chance to participate in and build their digital world.
That’s why our mission is to empower 1 million children and young people to thrive in safe, inclusive digital spaces and shape their own futures by 2030.
Moonhack is one way we bring our mission to life.
So, to every Moonhacker, mentor, and maker – thank you. You’ve helped build something incredibly special.
Here’s to the next 10 years of creativity, curiosity, and connection.
