The Ledger
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Latta: 100% of world population will have internet access within 10 years
“In the next 10 years, that's going to be a hundred percent.”
Latta: Student school satisfaction plummets from 75% in elementary to 25% in secondary
“When you look at what students say every year, there's a big survey that's done. It's over a million students are surveyed. And one of the questions asked is, do you like school from K through about six? The answer is usually overwhelmingly yes. It's like 75% …”
Elon Musk Told Latta the World Needs More Builders
“When we talked with Elon, what he said is he believes that there needs to be more builders in the world.”
Latta: Vitalik Buterin First Learned Linux in a High School Computer Club
“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.”
A High Schooler's App Reached 12% of District Users in Two Weeks
“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.”
Latta: India implemented over 10,000 public school makerspaces in five years
“India has this incredible initiative right now to get a makerspace in every single public school in the country. And they've already implemented more than 10,000 of them in the past five years.”
Latta: Hack Club serves 10,000–20,000 teens with a 10-person staff
“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.”
Teenagers Collaborated Online to Build a Custom Shader Programming Language
“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…”
Zach Latta Acquired His First 10,000 Software Users at Age 12
“When I was 12, I got my first 10,000 users.”
Latta: 'Football Heroes' reached number one on App Store with 1M+ downloads
“So when I was 15, when I was 16, I worked on two apps. One was a game called Football Heroes. I was part of a small team. I was the youngest and it became the number one game on the App Store. We got over a million downloads.”