(2012-05-29) Hack The Future Events

Planning is underway for the 5th Hack The Future event.

Hack the Future is fashioned on Super Happy Dev House, where the wunderkinds who fancy creation over computer cracking talk tech, swap blue-sky ideas and collaborate to come up with "the next big thing." Hack the Future is a one-day party and hackathon for youth in grades 5-12, to show them what it's like to be a hacker and see if it's for them... The idea to gather youngsters for an all-day techie confab was a no-brainer, says JoeMathes, startup engineer and Hack the Future co-creator. "This is the first chance many kids will have to enter the exciting, advancing field of technology. Programming is literacy.

About 75 kids, in fifth through 12th grades, attended the daylong event last August.