Hack Club

“I think my proposal is two systems. I propose one system that's like normal public school that where you have a high floor, low ceiling, everybody learns to read and write, but it's hard to go off the beaten path, but that only takes like four hours a day or s…”

“Whether or not someone has a college degree is almost a zero predictor for how good they are as an engineer and how good they are as a designer.”

“When we talked with Elon, what he said is he believes that there needs to be more builders in the world.”

“At this point, hack club serves between 10 and 20,000 teenagers. That's, you know, larger than many undergraduate programs at universities. And our staff is 10 and our budget smaller than second grade at an average size elementary school.”

“One cool project was a Hack Clubber from California and a Hack Clubber from a pretty rural part of the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia worked together to make a fragment shader programming language. And if you've ever played a game before where you see movin…”

“We try and make Hack Club as an organization and as a set of programs feel very editable. If you're a teenager in Hack Club and you're thinking, I don't like this thing Hack Club is doing, or I don't like this experience I'm going through. It should feel like …”

“In Hack Club, we don't work with schools. We don't work with teachers. We don't work with school administrators. We only work with teenagers. And even though we're on an in-person program inside of schools, we only interface with teenagers.”

“We don't have mandatory reading at Hack Club, but the closest thing we have to it is Diamond Age.”

“So much of what we think of as public education today is built to solve an access problem. How do we simply get access to all this different knowledge in front of as many people as possible? Where I think the new challenge of education is one of motivation.”

“They launched it four weeks ago. Within two weeks, one in eight people in their school district had downloaded it and was using it on their phone.”

“The thing that's so hard about education is that it has a million stakeholders. Literally everyone from parents to communities to literally real estate agents have a huge stake in education. And what that means is we end up with a system that's almost like the…”

“We talked with Vitalik, he talked about when he was in high school, he and one of his friends started what he called a mini Hack Club at his high school. And that was the first place he learned about Linux, which completely changed his life.”