Organization:Hack Club

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Hack Club
The Hack Foundation
Hack Club Flag Standalone.svg
FounderZach Latta
Type501(c)(3) organization
81-2908499
PurposeSTEM Education
HeadquartersShelburne, Vermont
Members
29,000[1]
COO
Christina Asquith
Tech & Creative Lead
Max Wofford
Staff
36[2]
Websitehttps://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 400 high school clubs and 29,000 students.[5] It has been featured on the TODAY Show, and profiled in the The Wall Street Journal [6] and many other publications.

Programs

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, both former and current.

A few notable programs and events are:

  • HCB - a fiscal sponsorship program originally targeted at high school hacker events
  • AMAs - video calls with industry experts such as Elon Musk[7] and Vitalik Buterin[8]
  • 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[9]
  • The Hacker Zephyr - a cross-country hackathon on a train across America[10]
  • 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"[11]
  • Epoch - A global high schooler-led hackathon in Delhi NCR organised 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
  • Haunted House - A 24-hour hackathon in Chicago where teenagers collaboratively built a Halloween themed webring

Funding

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.[12] 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.[13] In 2020, Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation donated $500,000 to help expand Hack Club,[14] and donated another $1,000,000 in 2021.[15] In 2022, Tom and Theresa Preston-Werner donated $500,000 to Hack Club.[16]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "A Home for High School Hackers – Hack Club". Hack Club. https://hackclub.com/. Retrieved 2024-01-24. 
  2. ↑ "Team - Hack Club". Hack Club. https://hackclub.com/team/. Retrieved 2022-09-26. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Hack Club: Empowering Students to Tap Into Their Coding Super Power" (in en-US). 2016-08-02. https://www.ffwd.org/blog/tech-nonprofits/hack-club-students-coding-super-power/. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Jackson, Abby. "Meet the 18-year-old who's skipping college to start a club for 'hackers'". https://www.businessinsider.com/zach-lattas-hacker-club-got-him-on-forbes-30-under-30-2016-1. 
  5. ↑ "Hack Club" (in en). https://hackclub.com/. 
  6. ↑ Jargon, Julie (2019-10-01). "Teen Hackers Try to Convince Parents They Are Up to Good" (in en-US). Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. https://www.wsj.com/articles/teen-hackers-try-to-convince-parents-they-are-up-to-good-11569922200. 
  7. ↑ "Watch Elon Musk's AMA with Hack Club Students". 17 May 2020. https://cleantechnica.com/2020/05/17/watch-elon-musks-ama-with-hack-club-students/. 
  8. ↑ (in en) Hack Club AMA w/ Vitalik Buterin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9NNUI-arfY, retrieved 2022-06-07 
  9. ↑ "Introducing Hack Club's Summer of Making". 28 May 2020. https://github.blog/2020-05-28-introducing-hack-clubs-summer-of-making/. 
  10. ↑ "🚂 the Hacker Zephyr". 10 December 2021. https://github.com/hackclub/the-hacker-zephyr. 
  11. ↑ "🌁 Assemble". 10 December 2021. https://github.com/hackclub/assemble. 
  12. ↑ "GitHub and Hack Club team up to bring more computer science resources to high schools" (in en-US). 2019-09-04. https://github.blog/2019-09-04-github-and-hack-club-bring-computer-science-resources-to-high-schools/. 
  13. ↑ "Introducing Hack Club's Summer of Making" (in en-US). 2020-05-28. https://github.blog/2020-05-28-introducing-hack-clubs-summer-of-making/. 
  14. ↑ "ElonMusk and The Musk Foundation donated $500,000 to Hack Club" (in en-US). 2020-05-21. https://techstartups.com/2020/05/21/elonmusk-and-the-musk-foundation-donated-500000-to-hack-club/. 
  15. ↑ "Elon Musk's $1M Donation" (in en). https://hackclub.com/relon/. 
  16. ↑ "Tom and Theresa Preston-Werner are Giving $500K" (in en). https://hackclub.com/preston-werner-2022/. 



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