Hack Club

Hack Club is a global nonprofit network of high school computer programming clubs^[3] founded in 2014 by Zach Latta and Jonathan Leung.^[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]

Hack Club

The Hack Foundation
Founder	Zach Latta Jonathan Leung
Type	501(c)(3) organization
Tax ID no.	81-2908499
Purpose	STEM education
Headquarters	Shelburne, Vermont
Members	80,000[1]
COO	Christina Asquith
Tech & Creative Lead	Max Wofford
Board of directors	Zach Latta, Christina Asquith, Tom Preston-Werner, Quinn Slack, John Abele[2]
Staff	120[2]
Website	hackclub.com , the.hackfoundation.org

History

Hack Club was founded in 2014 by Zach Latta and Jonathan Leung. At that time, Latta was a 16-year-old who had graduated from El Segundo High School early 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 and Leung would be placed on 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 March 2020, Hack Club relocated from Silicon Valley to Shelburne, Vermont.^[8] In April 2020, the Hack Club facilitated an AMA (Ask Me Anything) 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.^[9][10] In 2021, the organization accepted a $1 million donation from Musk. That same year, the organization had clubs in 400 different schools.^[8] In January 2022, Hack Club had over 20,000 students in clubs located in over 22 countries.^[11] In July 2025, the number of students jumped to over 70,000.^[12]

Organization

Hack Club consists of several local clubs ran by students in their own schools. 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. A Slack instance is also provided for all members across different clubs to communicate with globally.^[8] Latta has described this methodology as a "club in a box."^[3]