School & college chapters
Run inside your school with a teacher or faculty sponsor. Best for weekly build nights, inter-school build-a-thons and getting the CS department to actually use the lab.
Chapters Schools, colleges, cities
Run YBS where you are.
A chapter is a local Youth Builder Society — your school, your college, your neighbourhood. You host the build nights and events; we hand over everything else.
01 Who can start one
You need a room
and a date.
That's genuinely it. No prior experience running a club, no minimum member count, no budget required.
School chapters usually run inside an existing computer science or robotics club, or as a new society with a teacher sponsor. Community chapters run out of libraries, co-working spaces, makerspaces or someone's living room. Both work.
If you can get five people in a room once a month, you can run a chapter.
02 How it works
From form
to first event.
01
Get in touch
Email us with who you are, where the chapter would be and roughly when you'd like to start. A few lines is enough — we reply to every one.
02
Get the kit
Playbook, event formats, judging rubrics, slide templates, poster and logo files, plus a private channel with the core team.
03
Host your launch
We help you plan the first build night or mini build-a-thon, and put it on the global calendar so members near you can turn up.
04
Keep it running
Monthly organiser calls, shared speakers, cross-chapter events and help finding a local partner or venue when you need one.
03 Two kinds of chapter
Community chapters
Run in your city, open to anyone. Libraries, makerspaces, co-working spaces. Best for mixed-age groups, weekend sessions and public demo nights.
04 Register
Put your city on the map.
One email. We reply to every single one.