2015 interview.
Pepper-Kittredge’s comments help to place Hill’s story
in the larger context of HackerLab’s educational mission.
“HackerLab provides a unique environment where students
can mix with people from various industries, and this
network accelerates their career path as well as [their]
entrepreneurial endeavors,” she said. “Startup Hustle
delivers real world experiences to students; it validates the
skills they’ve developed on campus, and prepares them for
science, technology, engineering, and math ‘STEM’
In less than a year, the partnership between HackerLab
and Sierra College delivered an off-campus location in
Rocklin, filled with cutting-edge equipment. The new site
attracted 140 members — half of them students — and
boasted over 1,000 attendees in its first year of classes and
events.
HackerLab’s collaboration with Sierra College is only
one example of the successful partnerships that the Lab has
initiated to expand its offerings and member services. Intel
Corporation has been an enthusiastic sponsor and partner
of HackerLab for several years now. Thanks to Intel,
HackerLab was able to offer an incubatory hackathon —
that’s maker for “workshop” — targeted at businesses —
(Internet of Things) data and manage it via the cloud.
Participants received Intel’s brand new “Edison module”
(designed to be a primary component of new smart
devices, such as wearable tech) and a Groove Starter kit;
their work had the potential to take them all the way to
Intel’s own Developer Forum. Opportunities like this are
almost daily occurrences at HackerLab, whose other
sponsors include Consolidated Communications (who
provide HackerLab’s super high speed Wi-Fi) and the optics
giant, VSP Global.
On the webpage announcing HackerLab’s Io T
workshop, Nile Mattow wrote that HackerLab staff
encourage “interesting uses/misuses of technology.” I want
to believe him, but after being a part of the HackerLab
community for a month now, I have yet to see anyone
misusing technology. Rather, HackerLab is manifestly a place
where technology comes into its own, as something
accessible, limitless, and personal — all at once. It is a space
that empowers members to go the full distance from an
idea (“A pineapple!”) to a complete creation.
I originally wrote “to a complete polished creation,” but
that’s inaccurate. After all, sometimes the first stab at new
tech is distinctly un-polished. There’s room for such ugly
ducklings at HackerLab. There is space enough here to
innovate. SV
For a limited time, SERVO readers can get a free one-month pass to HackerLab.
Use the code SERVOMAG. Find out more at www.hackerlab.org.
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