Hack Club
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The Hack Foundation | |
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| Founder | Zach Latta and Jonathan Leung |
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| Type | 501(c)(3) organization |
| 81-2908499 | |
| Purpose | STEM Education |
| Headquarters | Burlington, Vermont |
Members | 15,000 |
Executive Director | Zach Latta |
COO | Christina Asquith |
Operations | Max Wofford |
Staff | 11 [1] |
| Website | https://hackclub.com, https://the.hackfoundation.org |
Hack Club is a global nonprofit network of high school computer hackers, makers and coders.[2] Founded in 2014 by Zach Latta and Jonathan Leung,[3] it now includes 400 high school clubs and 14,000 students.[4] It has been featured on the TODAY Show, and profiled in the Wall Street Journal[5] 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 / has ran a series of other programs and events.
A few notable programs and events are:
- Hack Club Bank - a fiscal sponsorship program originally targeted at high school hacker events
- Flagship 2019 - a meetup of high school hackathon organizers and coding club leaders
- AMAs - video calls with industry experts such as Elon Musk[6]
- 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[7]
- The Hacker Zephyr - a cross-country hackathon on a train across America [8]
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.[9] 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.[10] In 2020, Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation donated $500,000 to help expand Hack Club,[11] and donated another $1,000,000 in 2021.
References[]
- ^ "Team - Hack Club". Hack Club. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
- ^ "Hack Club: Empowering Students to Tap Into Their Coding Super Power". Fast Forward. 2016-08-02. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
- ^ 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 2021-10-05.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Introducing Hack Club's Summer of Making". 28 May 2020.
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