Hack Club
The Hack Foundation | |
| Founder | Zach Latta |
|---|---|
| Type | 501(c)(3) organization |
| 81-2908499 | |
| Purpose | STEM education |
| Headquarters | Shelburne, Vermont |
| Members | 80,000[1] |
COO | Christina Asquith |
Tech & Creative Lead | Max Wofford |
| Staff | 120[2] |
| Website | hackclub |
Hack Club is a global nonprofit network of high school computer hackers, makers and coders[3] under 19 founded in 2014 by Zach Latta.[4] It now includes more than 1,000 high school clubs and 80,000 students.[5] It has been featured on the TODAY Show, and profiled in the Wall Street Journal.[6]
Events
Summer of Making
Summer of Making is a program hosted by Hack Club to encourage teens to build websites, games, apps or any other personal open-source coding projects to showcase their skills to win awesome prizes like Raspberry Pis, Server hosting credits, 3D printers, and more to fuel their next creation.[7]
Athena
Athena is a program built by girls, for girls, in collaboration with Girls who Code, MIT School of Engineering, GitHub, Congressional APP Challenge, Girl Scouts of Greater NY, The Knowledge House, Black Girls Code, Code.org, ETRE, Launchpad, Get Cyber Smart, Girls Who Hack and Girl Up. Inspired by Summer Of Making, it allows participants to build projects, win prizes, as well as allowing them to fly to New York City for the largest all-girls high school hackathon.[8]
High Seas
High Seas is a hackathon hosted by Hack Club that encourages teens to build cool projects and ship them in the harbor to earn Doubloons (virtual currency). These Doubloons can be spent to purchase loot for your next project! Items range from soldering irons to Mac books.[9] Over 2,500 packages were shipped to makers in 119 countries worldwide. Over $330,000 of prizes were given out to makers around the world.[7] More than 5,200 teens have logged over 11,000 hours building projects for High Seas.[10]
Highway
Highway is a grant program where participants design a project and get sent the parts & funding they need to build it! They can repeat this to get invited to Undercity, a 4-day hardware hackathon at GitHub HQ in July 11th to 14th 2025.[11] Each project earns the participant up to 10 points depending on the difficulty of the project. If you get 4 points you can get up to $50 USD, 6 points up to $150 and 10 points up to $350.
References
- ^ "A Home for High School Hackers – Hack Club". Hack Club. Retrieved 2025-03-11.
- ^ "Team - Hack Club". Hack Club. Retrieved 2025-03-11.
- ^ Shatzen, Christina (2016-08-02). "Hack Club: Empowering Students to Tap Into Their Coding Super Power". Fast Forward. 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 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.
- ^ a b "Hack Club Summer of Making". summer.hackclub.com. Retrieved 2025-08-14.
- ^ "Athena - Hack Club". athena.hackclub.com. Retrieved 2025-08-14.
- ^ "High Seas | Hack Club". highseas.hackclub.com. Retrieved 2025-08-14.
- ^ "Teen-Driven Hack Club launches High Seas Coding Challenge". System76 Blog. 2024-11-20. Retrieved 2025-08-14.
- ^ "Highway to Undercity". highway.hackclub.com. Retrieved 2025-08-14.