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Hack Club takes to the High Seas (Interview)

Dec 4, 2024

Dive into the exciting High Seas initiative by Hack Club, which motivates teens to create personal coding projects with enticing rewards. Hear about a young hacker's experience launching a unique hackathon focused on creativity and engagement. Explore how the Fly platform offers developers more freedom compared to traditional tools. Discover the groundbreaking Speech AI innovations by Assembly AI and how they empower a new generation of coders, blooming in a collaborative and vibrant tech community.

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Quick takeaways

The High Seas initiative incentivizes teens to create personal projects by offering various prizes, fostering creativity and engagement in coding.

Acon's experience with Hack Club highlights the importance of community engagement and innovative themes in hackathons to inspire young developers.

Deep dives

Introduction of High Seas Initiative

The High Seas initiative encourages teenagers to develop personal projects and rewards them with various prizes to enhance their coding experience. Participants can log onto the platform, submit their projects, and accumulate points which can be exchanged for hardware and other exciting items. This program builds on previous successful initiatives and is designed to foster creativity among young developers by making coding engaging and enjoyable. By providing tangible incentives, such as Raspberry Pi Zeroes, 3D printers, and MacBooks, High Seas aims to inspire more teens to get involved in tech and software development.

Intro

3min

Empowering Young Coders Through Hat Club High Seas

2min

Crafting the Apocalypse: A Unique Hackathon Journey

19min

Unlocking Developer Freedom

13min

Encouraging Creativity and Collaboration in Young Developers

5min

Innovations in Speech AI and Youth Empowerment

6min

Jerod is joined by Hack Clubber Acon, who is fresh off the GitHub Universe stage and ready to tell us all about High Seas, a new initiative by Zach Latta and the Hack Club crew that’s incentivizing teens to build cool personal projects by giving away free stuff.

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Featuring:

Acon – GitHub, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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