Hack Club

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 nearly 400 high school clubs and 10,000 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 and Jonathan Leung
Type501(c)(3) organization
81-2908499
PurposeSTEM Education
Members
10,000+
Executive Director
Zach Latta
COO
Christina Asquith
Operations
Max Wofford
Staff
16 [1]
Websitehttps://hackclub.com

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.[6] In May 2020, Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation donated $500,000 to help expand Hack Club.[7] 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.[8]

References
  1. "Team - Hack Club". Hack Club. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  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". Join our Slack. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  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. "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.
  7. "ElonMusk and The Musk Foundation donated $500,000 to Hack Club". Tech News | Startups News. 2020-05-21. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  8. "Introducing Hack Club's Summer of Making". The GitHub Blog. 2020-05-28. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
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