The Band Club regularly performs at HPI events like the graduation celebration or the "HPI Sommerfest". Furthermore the club wants to expand the musicality of all students. As long as one is interested in music, the club is happy about sonorous support.

At the Book Club, we read a book each month, and then discuss it together. Depending on the preferences of club members, we engage in areas such as socially critical fiction, self-help/life issues, and the sciences. Everyone is welcome to suggest their favorite book. Together we choose the book for the next month. If you enjoy reading and discussing, stop by our meetings!

The club organizes and supports CoderDojo events at HPI in Potsdam and around the city. CoderDojos are events for boys and girls, from ages 5 to 17, who learn to build games, work with robots, programme and have fun. At HPI, we host CoderDojo every second Saturday in the month from 2 pm to 5 pm. The number of participants increases with every CoderDojo that’s organized.

During the meetings, club members train to participate as a team in national and international competitions and to implement algorithmic problem solutions in C++. The club is a spin-off of the Competitive Programming class at HPI.

This club maintains the HPI's alumni internet portal, administers alumni contacts, provides HPI alumni with news and information on the institute, organizes alumni meetings, and is the point of contact for all HPI alumni.
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The GameDev Club organizes "Game Jams", where you can realize and present your own game ideas on a given topic on a weekend. In addition, lectures and workshops are organized around the topic of game development.

The Student Board is the elected representative of the HPI student body. Elected student representatives are exempt from compulsory membership in a student club, but are welcome to cooperate with clubs.

EvaP Hacking Hours are regular meetings dedicated to the further development of the HPI evaluation platform. Every two weeks on Mondays, all who are interested can contribute to the development of a platform used by hundreds of users. There is a wide range of tasks to work on— from new features to performance optimization and UI-Design. Whether you choose to work alone or as  part of a team; whether you have prior knowledge or not― everyone is warmly welcome to join us. For beginners, we offer an introduction to Git, Django, and EvaP, and there is always someone nearby to lend a hand.

This club supports the PR department in planning, designing and holding all HPI events, for example tournaments in Poker, Skat and Go. We are also arrange Public Viewing events, the HPI summer celebration and the annual Kart-Challenge and a lot more.

If you are interested in supporting events and to meet lots of people, you are welcome.

The film club spends time on the conception, realization and wrap-up of own film projects. The club members in a project run through the several states of a film production - from the script to the storyboard and at least to the actual production and cutting.

Anyone who ever wanted to stand in front or behind a camera is welcomed to join us.

More information and news you receive on our Blog.

The Sustainability Club stands for a more sustainable life in the field of environmental protection and social justice. We represent universal values, such as human rights, and are also committed to free software, open source and data protection. We analyze how sustainable HPI is in itself and work out meaningful proposals for change. Since the former refugee club has joined forces with the sustainability club, we attach particular importance to this work and the exchange with refugees.

Contact: klub-nachhaltigkeit-sprecher(at)hpi.de

This club is involved in various activities, such as documenting HPI events. It also offers its members the opportunity to learn more about photography and realize their own ideas within the framework of workshops on photography and related topics and techniques, such as light painting, for example.

The Culinary Club aims at raising student awareness for healthy nutrition and to support events at HPI. Preparation of fresh and healthy food, if possible in organic quality, is primarily important to the club. Both vintage, but also exceptional new recipes are tested and documented by them for other students to share. The club also offers the preparation of dishes for events of other clubs or internal events of HPI.

The Arts Club provides opportunities to practice various artistic techniques and is open to both HPI students and staff. There is a contingent of working materials, and workshops or projects are offered throughout the year.

The Maker Club invites all electronic hobbyists and hardware freaks to join us on projects with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and Co. We are not just hitting keys, but also soldering, sawing and playing with the laser cutter in the HCI. Even if you are not familiar with microcontrollers or electrical engineering, you are welcome to increase your knowledge at our meetings by exchanging ideas and learning for your own projects and from others. The projects can be viewed on GitHub and are also on display at various events, such as Mozilla Hackshibition, Open Tech Summit, and the Maker Faire.

The Mobile Developer club deals with programming of native Apps for Apple iOS and Android – and everything related. The club not only focuses on the creation of an own HPI-App which represents the institute to the public but also on the design and execution of workshops on this topic, for example on user interfaces, interaction with web services and the application of geo-locations).  

The PR-club supports the PR-department in all kinds of press- and public- affairs, and also assists international students studying at the HPI. We design and sell HPI merchandise as well.

This club organizes HPI tours and projects for high school students, accompanies summer camps, supervises internships, takes care of marketing and recruiting activities, represents the HPI at exhibitions all over Germany, administers the HPI's contacts with German MINT schools, designs and holds projects with MINT schools, and supports the National IT Competition in all matters concerning the HPI (intermediate and final rounds, etc.).

At the beginning of the summer semester 2016 the Board Games Club was founded. Its main activities are their weekly board game meetup on Tuesdays (6:30 pm, H-E.51) and the 'Go' meetup on Thursdays (6 to 9 pm, H-2.57). Furthermore the club hosts other events as well.

The Sports Club was spun off the club Festivities and Events in the 2011 summer term and upholds close ties with this club. The club administers the HPI's sports facilities and organizes tournaments in soccer, volleyball and other sports.

Looking for a date on tennis-court and basketball field? Here is the calendar.

The dance club lets students shake a leg and conveys knowledge of the classical and Latin American dances. It is supported by a professional dancer who regularly organizes dance lessons interesting to both beginners and professionals.

The Website Club maintains and updates the HPI students internet portal with a forum, a guest book and many other features, for example:

• taskmanager
• studies planner
• information plattform
• blogs for the student societies

This club publishes the so-called HPImgzn biannually. The magazine presents current research projects, portrays members of the staff, and reports on past events and student life in general.