Hack Club is a global nonprofit network of high school computer programming clubs, and is the largest online community of technical teens.[3] It was founded in 2014 by Zach Latta.[4] In 2020, Christina Asquith joined as Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer, and board member. Hack Club, as of February 2026, includes more than 1,000 high school clubs and 150,000 students.[5] It has been featured on the TODAY Show, and profiled in the Wall Street Journal.[6]
Hack Club was founded in 2014 by Zach Latta. At that time, Latta was a 16-year-old high school dropout from El Segundo High School and was employed by Yo. Latta would win a 2015 Thiel Fellowship for Hack Club in June of that year, at which point he did not plan on attending college.[4] In 2016, Latta would be placed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for education. At that point, Hack Club was in a total of 52 schools, 12 US states, and 5 countries.[7] At the time of a profile of Latta by Business Insider at the end of January 2016, Hack Club had established clubs in the United States, Canada, Australia, India, Estonia, and Zimbabwe.[4]
In January 2022, Hack Club had over 20,000 students in clubs located in over 22 countries.[8] In July 2025, the number of students jumped to over 70,000.[9]
Hack Club consists of over 1,000 local clubs ran by students in their own schools.[11] These clubs are provided up-to-date curriculum, leadership and community-building training, and software tools by Hack Club.[3][4] The organization provides grants for hardware such as microcontrollers, circuit boards, sensors, or motors. Hack Clubbers communicate via a global Slack network with over 150,000 members.[10] Latta has described this methodology as a "club in a box."[3]
Events and Programs
Hack Clubbers at Undercity, a hackathon hosted in July 2025 at GitHub headquarters in San Francisco.Hack Clubbers at Parthenon, the world's largest all-girls high school hackathon hosted in November 2025.
Hack Club runs YSWS (You Ship, We Ship) programs for high schoolers, where they are able earn prizes in return for coding. Examples include the 2025 Summer of Making,[12] hosted in collaboration with GitHub. During the Summer of Making, over 4,000 teens logged a total of more than 80,000 hours of coding. Another event, High Seas,[13] which ran during Winter of 2024, had over 17,000 students log a total of more than 500,000 hours of coding.
Hack Club also runs hackathons (in-person coding marathons) globally, offering travel stipends to teens to attend them. In July of 2025, Hack Club ran a 4-day hardware-themed hackathon at GitHub headquarters in San Francisco, California called Undercity.[14] Another event, Blueprint,[15] was run in collaboration with AMD in December 2025. The winners of this event were able to speak on stage at CES, the world's largest tech conference, alongside Lisa Su and Michael Kratsios.[16] In November of 2025, Hack Club ran Parthenon,[17] the world's largest hackathon for teen girls.
In addition, Hack Club routinely runs AMA (Ask Me Anything) events with leaders in tech industries. In April 2020, the Hack Club facilitated an AMA between its members and Elon Musk. The event was originally planned to last 30 minutes, but Musk was impressed enough with the participants to allow it to extend for over an hour.[18][19] In 2021, the organization accepted a $1 million donation from Musk.[10]
Partnerships
Hack Club has partnered with GitHub to run virtual programs such as Arcade,[20]High Seas, and the 2025 Summer of Making. Hack Club has also partnered with AMD to run programs such as Blueprint and events such as Prototype.[21]
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