Hack Club
The Hack Foundation | |
 | |
| Founder | Zach Latta |
|---|---|
| Type | 501(c)(3) organization |
| 81-2908499 | |
| Purpose | STEM Education |
| Headquarters | Shelburne, Vermont |
| Members | 40,000[1] |
COO | Christina Asquith |
Tech & Creative Lead | Max Wofford |
| Staff | 47[2] |
| Website | https://hackclub.com, https://the.hackfoundation.org |
Hack Club is a global nonprofit network of high school computer hackers, makers and coders[3] founded in 2014 by Zach Latta.[4] It now includes more than 500 high school clubs and 40,000 students.[5] It has been featured on the TODAY Show, and profiled in the Wall Street Journal[6] and many other publications.
Programs
[edit]Hack Club's primary focus is its clubs program, in which it supports high school coding clubs through learning resources and mentorship. It also runs a series of other programs and events.
Some of their notable programs and events include:
- HCB - A fiscal sponsorship program originally targeted at high school hacker events
- AMAs - Video calls with industry experts such as Elon Musk,[7] Vitalik Buterin,[8] and Sal Khan[9]
- Summer of Making - A collaboration with GitHub, Adafruit & Arduino to create an online summer program for teenagers during the COVID-19 pandemic that included $50k in hardware donations to teen hackers around the world[10]
- The Hacker Zephyr - A cross-country hackathon on a train across America[11]
- Assemble - The first high school hackathon in San Francisco since the COVID-19 pandemic, with the stated goal of "kick[ing] off a hackathon renaissance"[12]
- Epoch - A global high schooler-led hackathon in Delhi NCR organized in public to inspire the community of student hackers and bring hundreds of teenagers together[3]
- Winter Hardware Wonderland - An online winter program where teenagers submit ideas for hardware projects and, if accepted, get grants of up to $250[4]
- Outernet - An experimental four-day hackathon and camping trip in the Northeast Kingdom
- 2024 Leader's Summit - A 72-hour hackathon in San Francisco where teenage club leaders built projects for their club members to use
- Wonderland - A 48-hour hackathon in Boston where teenagers built projects using random items found in their "chest"
- Apocalypse - A 42-hour high-school hackathon at Shopify's Toronto office, with the theme of a "zombie apocalypse"
- The Boreal Express - A cross-country hackathon on a train in partnership with Via Rail originally planned from Vancouver to Montreal, but was turned around due to wildfires in Jasper, Alberta
- Arcade - An online summer program in collaboration with GitHub, allowing teenagers to log work on creative projects to earn “tickets”, which could be exchanged for prize
- Onboard $100 grant for high schoolers to produce PCBs
Funding
[edit]Hack Club is funded by grants from philanthropic organizations and donations from individual supporters. In 2019, GitHub Education provided cash grants of up to $500 to every Hack Club "hackathon" event.[13] In May 2020, GitHub committed to a $50K hardware fund, globally alongside Arduino and Adafruit, to deliver hardware tools directly to students’ homes with a program named Hack Club Summer of Making.[14]Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation donated $500,000 to help expand Hack Club in 2020,[15] donated another $1,000,000 in 2021,[16] and an additional $4,000,000 in 2023.[17] In 2022, Tom and Theresa Preston-Werner donated $500,000 to Hack Club.[18]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "A Home for High School Hackers – Hack Club". Hack Club. Retrieved 2024-11-23.
- ^ "Team - Hack Club". Hack Club. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
- ^ a b "Hack Club: Empowering Students to Tap Into Their Coding Super Power". Fast Forward. 2016-08-02. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
- ^ a b Jackson, Abby. "Meet the 18-year-old who's skipping college to start a club for 'hackers'". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
- ^ "Hack Club". Retrieved 2024-11-23.
- ^ Jargon, Julie (2019-10-01). "Teen Hackers Try to Convince Parents They Are Up to Good". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
- ^ "Watch Elon Musk's AMA with Hack Club Students". 17 May 2020.
- ^ Hack Club AMA w/ Vitalik Buterin, retrieved 2022-06-07
- ^ Hack Club (2024-01-12). Hack Club AMA w/ Sal Khan (Founder of Khan Academy). Retrieved 2024-05-16 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Introducing Hack Club's Summer of Making". 28 May 2020.
- ^ "🚂 the Hacker Zephyr". GitHub. 10 December 2021.
- ^ "🌁 Assemble". GitHub. 10 December 2021.
- ^ "GitHub and Hack Club team up to bring more computer science resources to high schools". The GitHub Blog. 2019-09-04. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
- ^ "Introducing Hack Club's Summer of Making". The GitHub Blog. 2020-05-28. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
- ^ "ElonMusk and The Musk Foundation donated $500,000 to Hack Club". Tech News | Startups News. 2020-05-21. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
- ^ "Elon Musk's $1M Donation". Hack Club. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
- ^ "Hack Club HQ". HCB. 2024-08-25. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
- ^ "Tom and Theresa Preston-Werner are Giving $500K". Hack Club. Retrieved 2022-06-07.