Evergreen was Hack Club's 9th Day of Service, an initiative started to bridge the gender gap in technology. We organized a day of coding in partnership with a local school district, the Renton School District!

On May 3rd, 2024, our team of 12 Hack Clubbers gathered to host a 1-day hackathon for local students. By the end of the day, we had a variety of projects, such as circuit board designs, 3D modeling mockups, and even generative art that we drew with a robot arm! 🤖🦾

This repo is meant to serve as a point of reference for anyone wanting to organize their own Day of Service! If you have any other questions, reach out to @FireBreather65 on Slack. You can also view our open-source planning in the Hack Club Slack #evergreen channel!

Like past Days of Service events such as Horizon, Alpine, Think Like a Programmer, and Blossom, our goal was two-fold:

1. To support Hack Clubbers to become more technical, become better leaders, and deepen friendships through fun, collaborative coding projects.
2. To grow Hack Club’s community so it is inclusive and accessible to teenagers of all backgrounds. We made active outreach to under-represented, marginalized gender & race minorities, who lack access to computer science programs or professional mentors in their community.

Evergreen started out with an exact budget of $8,000. Here is an approximate breakdown:

Interested in reviewing every transaction? Our finances have been open-sourced through HCB's transparency mode! You can find our account at the link: https://hcb.hackclub.com/evergreen.

Evergreen had 3 different workshop tracks: Blot, OnBoard, and 3D Village! Here's an overview of all of them:

In this workshop, students learned JavaScript and created generative art! Thank you to @Michelle and @Sahiti from Blossom for giving us inspiration and shipping us their Blot machines to use during the event :)

In this workshop, students learned the fundamentals of circuit board design in EasyEDA with Hack Club's OnBoard program!

In this workshop, students learned the fundamentals of 3D modeling in Spline, a web-based 3D design tool!

After the hackathon, we had an amazing dinner at the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum! In attendance were 19 STEM professionals, 13 Hack Clubbers, 12 Renton high schoolers, and 2 staff members.

We started the night off with a round of questions on topics such as how to adapt to AI, advice for becoming a leader, and their definition of success. This led to some great conversation about societal and gender norms, and how to navigate the workplace while dealing with this.

One of the most memorable moments from the dinner is when we heard a shocking statistic: men tend to apply for jobs when they only have 50% of the requirements, whereas women typically apply when they have about 90% of requirements! This is the kind of self-doubt and feeling of impostor syndrome that can emerge from being a minority in tech.

Want to see pictures taken by our team member @alexdevz? Check them out here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/13TOTVXlu0y6nWqkK-_8nYyG2yHrNrvUQ

You can also check out a reel from our event created by @Deetschoe on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/p/C61rssvgMOj/