Zach Latta

Hi. I'm Zach. Welcome to my little corner of the web. The lack of CSS is intentional.

Links

• GitHub
• Twitter
• LinkedIn

Work

Current

Building and growing Hack Club at high schools worldwide.

Past

• CodeDay LA
• Yo
• Football Heroes
• Grasp

Awards/Recognition

• 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30
• 2015 Thiel Fellow

Hackathon

• Dial Tone - Hack the Planet - 1st Place, Demo
• Orbit - LAUNCH 2015 Hackathon - 3rd Place, Student Hacker Prize, Demo
• DownToZork.js - Hack Generation Y - 1st Place
• Fuji - PennApps Fall 2014 - 1st Place
• Interactive Markdown - TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon - Runner-up
• ShelterConnect - Hack for LA - 1st Place - LA Times Article
• Amelia - Burbank Game+Hack - 2nd Place Overall
• Scribe - PennApps 2014 Spring
• Bitroad - Oink Hackathon - 1st Place
• texit - PennApps Fall 2013 - Top 20

GitHub

• SSHTron - Multiplayer Tron over SSH
• Postman - Mail merge on the command-line
• Pyre - Command-line client for Tinder

Talks

• The Art of Code, Slides
• Curiosity, Education, And What We Can Do Better
• A Hands-On Introduction to Ruby

Reading

Essays

• What You Can't Say - Paul Graham
• Lies We Tell Kids - Paul Graham
• What You'll Wish You'd Known - Paul Graham

Books

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Ender's Game
• The Martian
• 1984

PGP

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Press

Contact

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