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Dear Fellow Innovators,

On behalf of the team at Hacker Lab, I’d like to thank you for inviting us to tell you a bit about what we do and the people’s lives we are privileged to impact.

A little more than four years ago, Hacker Lab began its journey in Sacramento, CA as a community-led innovation platform at a local coffee shop. A group of about 40 coders, inventors, and visionaries met and started discussing how they could bring about innovative change in the area from a grassroots level. Through rigorous collaboration with its community and the Sacramento community at large, Hacker Lab has grown since then to become a cutting-edge Makerspace that directly contributes to innovative growth and exploration in the region.

Since day one, Hacker Lab has thrived because it has always nurtured a close relationship with its community members. In developing this wonderful result of curated community collaboration, Hacker Lab worked closely with its members to choose its location - as a group, we visited many potential spaces, and at the end of the process the community chose 1715 I Street in Sacramento. Remarkably, Hacker Lab’s members even helped to build the offices and space in which they would eventually work.

Now, Hacker Lab strives to maintain a balance between the needs of the community and its ability to function as a business. Throughout this journey, we have learned to adapt our service offerings rapidly and often. We have learned that in order to serve our customers, we must hold close and always strive to be better at executing our core competencies:

1. Building Communities of Champions and Visionaries2. Systematically adding Talent and Expertise to our Community3. Building Customer-Relevant and Technical Curriculum

Once again, I’d like to thank you for being interested in our work. I and the team at Hacker Lab look forward to participating or contributing to your mission in the future!

Sincerely,

Gina LujanCEO and FounderHacker Lab

1715 I Street, Sacramento CA (916) 514-7044 �2

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Table of Contents1. Executive Summary 4........................................................................................2. Identity 5.............................................................................................................

2.1. Mission 5...................................................................................................................2.2.Vision 6......................................................................................................................2.3.Core Competencies 7................................................................................................2.4.The Team 8................................................................................................................

3. Hacker Lab’s Approach 9..................................................................................3.1. Education Programming 9........................................................................................3.2. Economic Development 9.........................................................................................3.3. Non-Profit - Operation Innovate 10...........................................................................3.4. Entrepreneurship 12.................................................................................................3.5. Sierra College Partnership: Building a Nation of Makers 13.....................................3.6. California Community Colleges Initiative Press Release 16.....................................3.7. Going Pro 19.............................................................................................................

4. Past Consultative Experience 22.....................................................................4.1.Northrup Grumman 22...............................................................................................4.2.Intel 23.......................................................................................................................4.3.VSP Global 24...........................................................................................................


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1. Executive Summary

This is a brief reference guide that serves to familiarize the reader with Hacker Lab. There are three main sections.

The first section provides an overview on Hacker Lab’s Mission, Vision, Team, and Core Competencies.

Machinery and equipment comprises only 20% of what a Maker space is, in our opinion. Hacker Lab does possess 3d Printers, Laser Cutters, CNC Routing machines, a full metal shop, wood shop, and an electronics lab. However, we realize that people consist of the other 80% of the Maker space solution. In the second section, we talk about Hacker Lab’s approach and the impact that we’ve been able to have on our members’ lives.

The third section shows a few of the projects that we have completed from a consultative point of view, and serves to demonstrate our experience in teaching the “Hacker Lab way” to other organizations.

Thank you for expressing interest in Hacker Lab!

-The Team


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2. Identity

2.1. Mission

Hacker Lab’s Mission is to empower Innovators by curating the community-provided know-how, physical tools, and the relationships they need to think big

and realize their dreams.


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2.2.Vision

Hacker Lab’s Vision is to be the go-to Innovators that are recognized by top

industries, sought after consultants and space makers for colleges and enterprises seeking innovation.


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2.3.Core Competencies


BUILDING COMMUNITIES OF CHAMPIONS AND VISIONARIES

SYSTEMATICALLY ADDING TALENT & EXPERTISE TO THE COMMUNITY

BUILDING CUSTOMER-RELEVANT AND TECHNICAL CURRICULUM

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2.4.The Team


Gina LujanFounder, CEO

Eric UllrichCo-FounderPresident

Dan Casas-Murray

COO

John SondereggerProgram Manager

Chuck Ferguson

General Manager

Nile MittowLead Innovation

Engineer

The Hacker Lab Executive Team

Our experienced team delivers world class communications, curriculum programming, and operations.

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3. Hacker Lab’s Approach

3.1. Education Programming

The objective of our workforce development programming is to increase innovation capacity and improve job readiness within our community in core programming, design, fabrication, and entrepreneurship focus areas. In collaboration with industry professionals, colleges, high schools and corporate executives, we are continually improving our offerings. We aim to provide low-cost, readily available training programs to people of all ages and backgrounds. By engaging in our classes, individuals can get a fast-paced deep dive into a subject without the lengthy and often costly process that traditional educational institutions demand. The result is an ideal fit for obtaining new skills at a rapid pace.

3.2. Economic DevelopmentOur programming model takes a broad three phase approach: 1) Foundation, 2) Business Discovery, 3) Company Building.

Phase 1: Foundation

The foundation of our model is to provide all the critical components necessary for innovation ecosystems to flourish. The core of our Foundation is education and training curriculum, networking opportunities, and access to fabrication equipment for prototyping and experimentation. All of this directly leads to increased business potential, either by planting the seeds of new businesses or by training someone with critical skills to to be hired by growing companies.


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Phase 2: Business Discovery

We help entrepreneurs rapidly validate and iterate their business ideas in 6 intensive weeks through a structured program taught by local successful entrepreneurs (currently branded Startup Hustle). Participants work through guided assignments and one-to-one mentorship with the ultimate goal of discovering a scalable and repeatable business model. By the end of the program participants walk away with a toolset for entrepreneurship and a network of local mentors that will help them for years to come.

Phase 3: Company Building

The final phase to our program is focused on accelerating business potential to create and grow large companies. Core aspects of this phase include assistance with obtaining venture funding, scaling production, hiring employees, building an executive advisory board, service provider connections (law, finance, marketing), and creating a customer pipeline between large organizations and entrepreneurial ventures. Although we do not currently have a formalized program for the accelerator phase, we actively mentor and assist our members throughout this process. We are working closely with an advisory board to construct resources critical for this phase of our program.

3.3. Non-Profit - Operation Innovate

Code For Hood is a non profit that focuses on hosting hackathons and coding workshops in urban neighborhoods. It is our mission to help educate and enrich the lives of minority, low income and at risk youth, between the ages of 12-21. Code For Hood plans on working with cities, schools, and other nonprofit organizations to help foster STEM initiatives within these demographics.


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The hackathons focus on technologies such as:

• Mobile and web development• Software development• Video game development• Basic electronics• Design

Other core areas of focus are startups, entrepreneurship, and civic innovation. The first hackathon took place on April 10 2015, at The Greater Sacramento Urban League. A three-day event, our youth learned Basic Coding, Video Game Design, and Design Thinking for the first half of the hackathon before beginning their projects.

The last day was the competition day of the hackathon. Each team was mentored and guided during their project build, using the skills they used in the workshops. Teams presented their projects to a panel of judges and the top 2 teams won prizes.


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3.4. EntrepreneurshipOur pre-incubator program (www.startuphustle.in) is designed to increase the quantity and quality of high growth potential startups. We do this through an intensive six-week program that guides entrepreneurs through the process of rapidly validating a business idea. Core entrepreneurial skills are taught through a comprehensive curriculum aided by a growing network of local successful entrepreneurs and investors.

Program

Week 1: How to Understand your Customer

You’ll learn how successful startup entrepreneurs approach the rigorous demands of business building.

Week 2: Discovering your Customer

You will be focusing on gathering actionable intelligence about customers, including interviews and observation.

Week 3: From Idea to Customer

You’ll learn about customer-solution pairs and how to create maps of strategic design targets.

Week 4: Prototyping and Testing Assumptions

You’ll build out the framework of how this new business will function.

Week 5: Iterate, Iterate, Iterate

You’ll continue to talk with your customers and test the assumptions that you made in previous weeks.

Week 6: Pitch Practice

In this week, we’ll practice standing in front of an audience and clearly articulating your business with a slide deck.


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Makers

Sierra College is the first community college in the country to establish a unique public/private partnership to jointly open a Makerspace for the community with Sacramento’s Hacker Lab.

The partnership aims to inspire innovation by collaborating to build a community innovation center where members have access to Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math (STEAM) education, technology and resources to support entrepreneurship.


WORK PROVIDED: • Spearheaded first public-private

maker space; • Leading faculty, staff, presidents

office through lean program prototyping process.

• Developing programs to engage students & faculty with new maker curriculum.

IMPACT: • New perception as leaders in

innovation • Awarded 17 M statewide grant • Student and teacher experience

transformation

�The first community college public-private

makerspace and in the country.


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3.6. California Community Colleges Initiative Press Release

Sierra College Selected to Support California Community Colleges in Spreading Innovation and

STEAM Education through Maker Spaces During the 2016 National Week of Making, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office announced that Sierra College was selected to support the first statewide community college makerspace initiative of its kind in the nation to strengthen STEAM education.

ROCKLIN CA (PRWEB) JUNE 25, 2016

Sierra College has been selected by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO), Workforce and Economic Development Division, to be the fiscal agent and technical assistance provider for the INNOVATIONMAKER3 and STEM/STEAM Workforce Development grant, announced Van Ton-Quinlivan, Vice Chancellor of Workforce and Economic Development, CCCCO. Sierra College will manage $17,000,000 over three years to support the success of the first statewide community college makerspace initiative of its kind in the nation to enhance Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEM/STEAM) education.

Announcing this CCCCO Innovation Maker initiative during the 2016 National Week of Making demonstrates California’s support of the White House’s efforts to build a Nation of Makers, and commitment to giving students’ experiences that spark an interest in science and technology careers, and fostering skills that they can use to contribute to the Innovation Economy.

“We want all Californians to be competitive for future jobs that value ‘Maker’ skillsets and will create that opportunity by connecting more community colleges to the Maker Movement,” said Ton-Quinlivan. “With 113 community colleges, our scale can quickly extend access to these rich learning environments.”

The CCCCO Innovation Maker initiative will provide mini-grants to colleges to establish or improve maker spaces, place students in internships, develop a framework to support community colleges in preparing students with 21st century skills desired by employers, and create a community of practice among colleges that will serve as a national model.

Willy Duncan, President, Sierra College Joint Community College District, noted that the statewide project will benefit from the experiences of “Hacker Lab Powered by Sierra College,” the first community college public/private makerspace partnership in the nation. “We’ve already seen tremendous impact from having a maker space affiliated with the college and want to share what we’ve learned with other colleges,” said Duncan.


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With a college maker space, knowledge expands beyond the classroom to create new and unique solutions, inventions and processes for solving complex problems. “Students have developed skills, connected with industry experts and formed small businesses, and faculty has enhanced curriculum using industry models such as Adobe Kickbox,” said Duncan. “By integrating community colleges with the maker community, this grant will inspire innovation, prepare students as entrepreneurs or for in-demand jobs, and boost our local and statewide economy.”

Dale Dougherty, CEO, Maker Media, Chairman, Maker Education Initiative, Founder, MAKE magazine and creator of Maker Faire, will chair the Innovation Maker initiative advisory committee. The leadership group developing the strategy for grant implementation will be comprised of representatives from Kiva, Intel®, Adobe, Maker Ed, VSP Global®, Hacker Lab, Northrop Grumman, CCCCO Workforce and Economic Development Division, New World of Work, the Governor's Office of Economic Development (GO-Biz), California Asian Chamber of Commerce, California Council of Science & Technology, National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship, Foundation for California Community Colleges, Yuba College and Folsom Lake College.

Dougherty believes that this statewide project can develop models that can be replicated across the country. “We have a world with abundant technology but it takes talented people to solve problems that make a difference for society and individuals,” said Dougherty. “We know that young people, who get exposed to making and are inspired, lead different lives than those who don’t.”

According to Dougherty, this grant connects education and making, giving fuller access to college students to develop their talents. “The maker movement is about democratization; it increases access to technology affordably,” said Dougherty. “This grant brings together the perfect combination because community colleges are open to the broadest spectrum of students with the raw talent, and the maker movement is the great leveler, providing a supportive environment for students to use tools, develop skills and solve problems.”

Carol Pepper-Kittredge, Director, Center for Applied Competitive Technologies, Sierra College, will manage the grant implementation. “The Leadership/Advisory Committee will be the voice and the inspiration for the Innovation Maker initiative to accelerate California Community Colleges’ contribution to the Creative Economy,” said Pepper-Kittredge. “We'll work hand-in-hand with a Technical Assistance Provider to help colleges set up maker spaces, engage students and faculty, partner with business and industry, and provide


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students with meaningful work-based experiences.”

About Sierra College Sierra College serves 3200 square miles of Northern CA with campuses in Roseville, Rocklin, Grass Valley and Truckee. With

approximately 125 degree and certificate programs, Sierra College is ranked first in Northern California (Sacramento north) for transfers to four year universities, offers career/technical training and classes for upgrading job skills. Sierra College graduates can be found in businesses and industries throughout the region.

Teachers learning the basics in preparation for the Teacher Hackathon in April 2016.


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3.7. Going ProMany of our members leverage Hacker Lab to launch their own small businesses.

Others take their new skills to the next level by either securing a job or by joining other incubation programs in Sacramento. Please see examples of our Launches and ‘Next-Leveling’ below.

Launch

Ana Apple Designs

Ana Apple began at Hacker Lab and Launched her own business. Now with an online presence and a downtown Sacramento storefront, she creates apparel & gifts for quirky infants & toddlers to celebrate whimsy and inspire generosity.

www.anaapple.com


http://www.anaapple.com

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Eye2MobileJim Hsu is a Hacker Lab member and has used Startup Hustle and our 3d printing equipment to prototype Eye2Mobile, a phone dock that allows researchers to capture microscope images on their phones.

www.eye2mobile.com

tula in bloomLaunched at Hacker Lab, tula in bloom is a collection of handmade one-of-a-kind and limited run jewelry and accessories, using primarily reclaimed and repurposed materials. www.tulainbloom.com


http://www.eye2mobile.com

http://www.tulainbloom.com

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Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital

Founder Academy is a Sacramento-based, Silicon Valley-caliber incubator with a training and mentoring program for serious, committed entrepreneurs. Graduates have access to Angel funding and Venture Capital.

Employment

After graduating from one of our various coding bootcamps, we pass members to FullStack Labs, a software development firm in Sacramento. In the past 6 months, FullStack Labs have made several hires from applicants that have come from our space.

Manufacturing

PRIDE Industries delivers outsource solutions that help business and government stay focused on their goals. Hacker Lab takes advantage of its full range of services and capabilities by sending our members here to take advantage of outsourced logistics and contract electronics manufacturing.


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4. Past Consultative Experience

4.1.Northrup Grumman


WORK PROVIDED: Led cross sector team of 20 through all aspects strategy, design, and implementation of FABLAB project.

IMPACT: Cultural transformation Increase in patents Over 350 active users within 6 months of launch.

PRESS

FABLAB HACKATHON GIVES THE GIFT OF ART BACK TO A STRANGER IN NEED http://www.hackaday.com/2016/06/05/fablab-hackathon-gives-the-gift-of-art-back-to-a-stranger-in-need/

Northrop Grumman FabLab Opens For Innovation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmUaqH3rmow

http://www.hackaday.com/2016/06/05/fablab-hackathon-gives-the-gift-of-art-back-to-a-stranger-in-need/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmUaqH3rmow

http://www.hackaday.com/2016/06/05/fablab-hackathon-gives-the-gift-of-art-back-to-a-stranger-in-need/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmUaqH3rmow

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4.2.Intel


WORK PROVIDED: Developed community engagement program to promote, educate, and assist innovation leveraging Intel technology

IMPACT: Developed programs that have been replicated across the country and engaged hundreds of developers.

Press Hacker Lab Launches Summer of IoT Program with Intel http://startupsac.com/hacker-labs-summer-of-iot/

http://startupsac.com/hacker-labs-summer-of-iot/

http://startupsac.com/hacker-labs-summer-of-iot/

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4.3.VSP Global


WORK PROVIDED:

• Incubated program founding team for 12 months at our Midtown Hacker Lab location.

• Continually assisting in facilitating training, edu, and equipment access for their innovation programs

IMPACT:

• Successfully launched first innovation lab prototype which has been replicated 2 additional times.

• Project teams utilizing the Shop and Hacker Lab resources have prototyped and proven multiple projects that have received executive funding.

Fab12 - Shenzhen Global FabLab Conference - Hacker Lab Represents Sacramento On Aug. 12, in Shenzhen China at the Fab12 Global FabLab conference, Hacker Lab represented Sacramento and "pushed the button" to formally join the Fab City initiative.

History of The Project:In 2014 at FAB10 the mayor of Barcelona invited his colleagues around the world to join the Barcelona pledge: a countdown for cities to become at least 50% self-sufficient by 2054.

What is the FAB CITY Project?The FAB City is a global project to develop locally productive and globally connected self-sufficient cities. It comprises an international think tank of civic leaders, makers, urbanists and innovators working on changing the paradigm of the current industrial economy where the city operates on a linear model

of importing products and producing waste.

FAB City is a new urban model of transforming and shaping cities that shifts how they source and use materials from ‘Products In Trash Out’ (PITO) to ‘Data In Data Out’ (DIDO). This means that more production occurs inside the city, along with recycling materials and meeting local needs through local inventiveness. A city’s imports and exports would mostly be found in the form of data (information, knowledge, design, code).

In 2011 IAAC, the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, the Fab Foundation and the Barcelona CityCouncil launched the Fab City project at the FAB7 conference in Lima. In 2014 at FAB10 themayor of Barcelona invited his colleagues around the world to join the Barcelona pledge: acountdown for cities to become at least 50% self-sufficient by 2054. In 2015 in FAB11 at Boston,7 new cities joined the Fab City project, including Boston, Cambridge, Ekurhuleni and Shenzhen.

There are now 16 cities apart of the initiative: BARCELONABOSTONSOMERVILLECAMBRIDGEEKURHULENIKERALAGEORGIASHENZHENAMSTERDAMTOULOUSEOCCITANE REGIONPARISBHUTANSACRAMENTOSANTIAGODETROIT

"The goal is by 2054 we will have a global network of self sufficient cities. This means 50% of what is consumed is produced locally"

"The beauty is there are communities from around the world working on this initiative together, sharing best practices, learning, and growing."

FAB City takes the ideals of the Fab Lab - the connectivity, culture and creativity - and scales it to the City. It is a new urban model of transforming and shaping cities that shifts how they source

and use materials from ‘Products In Trash Out’ (PITO) to ‘Data In Data Out’ (DIDO). This meansthat more production occurs inside the city, along with recycling materials and meeting localneeds through local inventiveness. A city’s imports and exports would mostly be found in theform of data (information, knowledge, design, code).

Benefits of joining the initiative:This initiative offers a valuable economic opportunity for participating cities. It will create newtypes of jobs and professions related to the knowledge economy and the development andimplementation of new approaches and technological solutions. The Fab City initiative willdevelop a set of associated services:● Mapping the existing innovation and production ecosystems in cities. Understanding theexisting manufacturing infrastructures, networks of knowledge, initiatives, communitiesand other organizations that are looking into systems change in participating cities.● Establishing metrics to evaluate impact in each participating city. Developing commonstandards and sharing best practices in terms of local production. A Fab City datadashboard.● Developing products that can be produced locally and shared globally. From objects tofood, to waste management or energy harvesting solutions. A global Fab City repository.● Deploying interventions. Running a Fab City Blockchain amongst the participating citiesas a decentralized autonomous organization.● Articulating with other groups of interest and networks. Fab City is not the only initiativelooking into the future of cities, we aim to build bridges with existing research andinitiatives that for years have been contributing to developing a better understanding ofthe urban living.● Organizing a yearly event at Fab Conferences and complementary events in different cities of the world

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