Hack Club Explained
| Hack Club |
| Full Name: | The Hack Foundation |
| Type: | 501(c)(3) organization |
| Tax Id: | 81-2908499 |
| Purpose: | STEM Education |
| Leader Name2: | Christina Asquith |
| Leader Title2: | COO |
| Leader Name3: | Max Wofford |
| Leader Title3: | Tech & Creative Lead |
| Headquarters: | Shelburne, Vermont |
| Founder: | Zach Latta |
| Num Staff: | 44[1] |
| Members: | 31,000[2] |
| Homepage: | 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 31,000 students.[5] It has been featured on the TODAY Show, and profiled in 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] Vitalik Buterin, and Sal Khan[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
- Winter Hardware Wonderland - An online winter program where teenagers submit ideas for hardware projects and, if accepted, get grants of up to $250
- 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
- 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 in Toronto at Shopify's Toronto office, with the theme of a "zombie apocalypse"
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
Notes and References
- Web site: Team - Hack Club. Hack Club. 2024-07-24.
- Web site: A Home for High School Hackers – Hack Club. Hack Club. 2024-07-24.
- Web site: 2016-08-02. Hack Club: Empowering Students to Tap Into Their Coding Super Power. 2020-08-22. Fast Forward. en-US.
- Web site: Jackson. Abby. Meet the 18-year-old who's skipping college to start a club for 'hackers'. 2020-08-22. Business Insider.
- Web site: Hack Club . 2024-07-24 . en.
- News: Jargon. Julie. 2019-10-01. Teen Hackers Try to Convince Parents They Are Up to Good. en-US. Wall Street Journal. 2020-08-22. 0099-9660.
- Web site: Watch Elon Musk's AMA with Hack Club Students. 17 May 2020.
- Hack Club AMA w/ Sal Khan (Founder of Khan Academy) . 2024-01-12 . Hack Club . 2024-05-16 . YouTube.
- Web site: Introducing Hack Club's Summer of Making. 28 May 2020.
- Web site: the Hacker Zephyr. GitHub. 10 December 2021.
- Web site: Assemble. GitHub. 10 December 2021.
- Web site: 2019-09-04. GitHub and Hack Club team up to bring more computer science resources to high schools. 2020-08-22. The GitHub Blog. en-US.
- Web site: 2020-05-28. Introducing Hack Club's Summer of Making. 2020-08-22. The GitHub Blog. en-US.
- Web site: 2020-05-21. ElonMusk and The Musk Foundation donated $500,000 to Hack Club. 2020-08-22. Tech News Startups News. en-US.
- Web site: Elon Musk's $1M Donation . 2022-06-07 . Hack Club . en.
- Web site: Tom and Theresa Preston-Werner are Giving $500K . 2022-06-07 . Hack Club . en.
