Hack Shop is an organization where students' interest drive their progress in a self-paced environment that focuses on the many forms that technology can take in our young people’s lives and empowers them to “hack” it to their liking. In our learning environments, hacking isn’t a bad word or a criminal activity, it is the process of taking disparate pieces of information or a diverse set of tools and combining them in a new way to create new knowledge and solutions.
A demonstration sequence of activities for the Big Shoulders STEM Scholars Program 8th-Grade Class. Groups of 20 students meet every other week for 2 hours of instruction on Saturday mornings.
Our curriculum is divided into a series of self-paced areas of exploration. In each challenge area, students explore a technical subject or platform, including: Web Design, Hardware, Mobile Apps, and Animation.
We host our lesson plans, materials and challenges on GitHub and track student progress on Google Sheets. Fork our repo and copy our sheet to launch your very own HackShop today.