Stack Hacks was founded by 3 high school seniors who shared a passion for programming and a dislike for the way in which it is taught today. We noticed that as students, we never had the opportunity to work in groups, or the chance to use multiple languages on one project. This meant that while we might learn the language itself along with some other standard skills, we were sorely lacking in the collaboration and communication departments, which are crucial parts in the software engineering cycle. This was also a problem with self taught programmers, as they didn’t have anyone to work with being self taught. This inspired us to create this hackathon. A hackathon where we would give programmers the opportunity to learn and hone these necessary skills. One where they would have to challenge themselves to grow along with other programmers. One where the main focus was to cooperate and collaborate.