Hack Club

Hack Club is a global nonprofit network of high school computer hackers, makers and coders.[2] Founded in 2014 by Zach Latta,[3] it now includes 400 high school clubs and 20,000 students.[4] It has been featured on the TODAY Show, and profiled in the Wall Street Journal[5] and many other publications.

Hack Club
The Hack Foundation
FounderZach Latta
Type501(c)(3) organization
81-2908499
PurposeSTEM Education
HeadquartersShelburne, Vermont
Members
20,000
COO
Christina Asquith
Tech & Creative Lead
Max Wofford
Staff
14[1]
Websitehttps://hackclub.com, https://the.hackfoundation.org

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 run 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
  • AMAs - video calls with industry experts such as Elon Musk[6] and Vitalik Buterin[7]
  • 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[8]
  • The Hacker Zephyr - a cross-country hackathon on a train across America. [9]
  • Assemble - the first high school hackathon in San Francisco since the pandemic, with the stated goal of "kick[ing] off a hackathon renaissance".[10]
  • 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.[2]
  • Winter Wonderland Hardware - An online winter program where teenagers submit their idea of a project and if accepted they get upto $250 grant for their hardware that is required in the project.[3]

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.[11] 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.[12] In 2020, Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation donated $500,000 to help expand Hack Club,[13] and donated another $1,000,000 in 2021.[14] In 2022, Tom and Theresa Preston-Werner donated $500,000 to Hack Club.[15]

References
  1. "Team - Hack Club". Hack Club. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
  2. "Hack Club: Empowering Students to Tap Into Their Coding Super Power". Fast Forward. 2016-08-02. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  3. Jackson, Abby. "Meet the 18-year-old who's skipping college to start a club for 'hackers'". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  4. "Hack Club". Retrieved 2021-10-05.
  5. 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.
  6. "Watch Elon Musk's AMA with Hack Club Students". 17 May 2020.
  7. Hack Club AMA w/ Vitalik Buterin, retrieved 2022-06-07
  8. "Introducing Hack Club's Summer of Making". 28 May 2020.
  9. "🚂 the Hacker Zephyr". GitHub. 10 December 2021.
  10. "🌁 Assemble". GitHub. 10 December 2021.
  11. "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.
  12. "Introducing Hack Club's Summer of Making". The GitHub Blog. 2020-05-28. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  13. "ElonMusk and The Musk Foundation donated $500,000 to Hack Club". Tech News | Startups News. 2020-05-21. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  14. "Elon Musk's $1M Donation". Hack Club. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  15. "Tom and Theresa Preston-Werner are Giving $500K". Hack Club. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
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