The Annual hackathon brings together developers, engineers, designers, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders in Technology to meet and discuss issues arising, identify opportunities and the way forward in making Ghana a better place using technology. The hackathon has attracted from 72 participants and 4 tertiary institutions in 2016 to 450+ participants and 15 tertiary institutions in 2018. The exponential growth of this event has lead to strengthening the relationship with the participating institutions to aid develop the capacity of students through our second initiative.

This is a network of satellite groups of students who self-convene, organize and lead peer-to-peer learning activities with framework and resource support from the Foundation team. These groups based on the various campuses of the participating universities. The activities of these groups are overseen officially by and with consent from the Department of Computer Science/Engineering. The most active groups are X-Hub KNUST (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology) and X-Hub HTU (Ho Technical University) amongst the 5 others.

Hacklab Junior addresses early childhood education. Through this initiative, the Hacklab Foundation hopes to nurture and develop creativity and innovation amongst children between the ages of 7 years and 13 years through specially designed engineering and coding programs like Littlebits toolkits, DEXT Science Sets and Scratch. The Foundation believes to reach its objective of preparing people for future jobs, its ideal and will be effect to catch them while they are young. One of the programs under this initiative is the Hacklab Junior Summer Makers Camp.

Most college students spend their 4 years in school limited to classroom activities, myopic about which career paths to take most often due to limited information on what options there are and how to prepare for life-after-school. Through a partnership with Certified Ghana, the Hacklab Foundation travels across university campuses to educate the students interested in taking IT Career paths. We do this with the help of the experienced IT professionals we take along, most often with 10-15 years more experience in IT Professional practices. This has proven to be very helpful in creating a clear direction for the students while their in school before graduating.