Hack Club

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.

Some of their notable programs and events include:

• [https://hackclub.com/hcb/ HCB] - A fiscal sponsorship program originally targeted at high school hacker events
• [https://hackclub.com/amas/ AMAs] - Video calls with industry experts such as Elon Musk,{{Cite web|url=https://cleantechnica.com/2020/05/17/watch-elon-musks-ama-with-hack-club-students/|title = Watch Elon Musk's AMA with Hack Club Students|date = 17 May 2020}} Vitalik Buterin,{{Citation |title=Hack Club AMA w/ Vitalik Buterin | date=3 February 2022 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9NNUI-arfY |language=en |access-date=2022-06-07}} and Sal Khan{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkKBQMFtD_U |title=Hack Club AMA w/ Sal Khan (Founder of Khan Academy) |date=2024-01-12 |last=Hack Club |access-date=2024-05-16 |via=YouTube}}
• [https://summer.hackclub.com 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{{Cite web|url=https://github.blog/2020-05-28-introducing-hack-clubs-summer-of-making/|title = Introducing Hack Club's Summer of Making|date = 28 May 2020}}
• [https://zephyr.hackclub.com The Hacker Zephyr] - A cross-country hackathon on a train across America{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/hackclub/the-hacker-zephyr|title=🚂 the Hacker Zephyr|website=GitHub|date=10 December 2021}}
• [https://assemble.hackclub.com 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"{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/hackclub/assemble|title=🌁 Assemble|website=GitHub|date=10 December 2021}}
• [https://epoch.hackclub.com Epoch] - A global high schooler-led hackathon in Delhi NCR organized in public to inspire the community of student hackers and bring hundreds of teenagers together
• [https://winter.hackclub.com Winter Hardware Wonderland] - An online winter program where teenagers submit ideas for hardware projects and, if accepted, get grants of up to $250
• [https://outernet.hackclub.com Outernet] - An experimental four-day hackathon and camping trip in the Northeast Kingdom
• [https://summit.hackclub.com/ 2024 Leader's Summit] - A 72-hour hackathon in San Francisco where teenage club leaders built projects for their club members to use
• [https://wonderland.hackclub.com/ Wonderland] - A 48-hour hackathon in Boston where teenagers built projects using random items found in their "chest"
• [https://apocalypse.hackclub.com/ Apocalypse] - A 42-hour high-school hackathon at Shopify's Toronto office, with the theme of a "zombie apocalypse"
• [https://boreal.hackclub.com/main?continue=true The Boreal Express] - A cross-country hackathon on a train in partnership with Via Rail originally planned from Vancouver to Montreal, but was turned around due to wildfires in Jasper, Alberta
• [https://hackclub.com/arcade/ Arcade] - An online summer program in collaboration with GitHub, allowing teenagers to log work on creative projects to earn “tickets”, which could be exchanged for prizes
• [https://hackclub.com/onboard/ Onboard] $100 grant for high schoolers to produce PCBs
• [https://highseas.hackclub.com High Seas] - A program which allows teenagers to log work via Wakatime and "shipping" their projects to earn "doubloons", which can be used to exchange for prizes

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.{{Cite web|date=2019-09-04|title=GitHub and Hack Club team up to bring more computer science resources to high schools|url=https://github.blog/2019-09-04-github-and-hack-club-bring-computer-science-resources-to-high-schools/|access-date=2020-08-22|website=The GitHub Blog|language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite web|date=2020-05-28|title=Introducing Hack Club's Summer of Making|url=https://github.blog/2020-05-28-introducing-hack-clubs-summer-of-making/|access-date=2020-08-22|website=The GitHub Blog|language=en-US}} Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation donated $500,000 to help expand Hack Club in 2020,{{Cite web|date=2020-05-21|title=ElonMusk and The Musk Foundation donated $500,000 to Hack Club|url=https://techstartups.com/2020/05/21/elonmusk-and-the-musk-foundation-donated-500000-to-hack-club/|access-date=2020-08-22|website=Tech News {{!}} Startups News|language=en-US}} donated another $1,000,000 in 2021,{{Cite web |title=Elon Musk's $1M Donation |url=https://hackclub.com/relon/ |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=Hack Club |language=en}} and an additional $4,000,000 in 2023.{{Cite web |date=2024-08-25 |title=Hack Club HQ |url=https://hcb.hackclub.com/hq/ |access-date=2024-08-25 |website=HCB |language=en}} In 2022, Tom and Theresa Preston-Werner donated $500,000 to Hack Club.{{Cite web |title=Tom and Theresa Preston-Werner are Giving $500K |url=https://hackclub.com/preston-werner-2022/ |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=Hack Club |language=en}}

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