The core value of Curiosity Hacked is: The unrelenting pursuit of knowledge. The core value contains two parts: persistence, which is needed to follow the hacker path, and understanding. Understanding is broken into three sections:

• Understanding Yourself
  • resourcefulness - understanding your potential
  • creativity - understanding your mind
  • positive attitude - understanding your emotion
  • health - understanding your body
  • initiative - understanding your opportunity
• Understanding Others
  • compassion - understanding their emotions
  • cooperation - understanding their potential
  • honesty - understanding communication
  • respect - understanding their value
• Understanding the World
  • responsibility - understanding your role
  • open mind/tolerant - understanding perspective
  • critical mind/inquisitive - understanding understanding

Purpose:

Why Curiosity Hacked?

• Because our world will benefit from a more educated population
• Because our technology is changing rapidly
• Few school programs and youth organizations include technological education
• Many people don't understand the technology they use every day current options are limited
• There is no youth organization that is all-inclusive and focuses on the open-minded search for knowledge,

Why Hacking?

• Hands-on Learning is the best way to get interested and retain information in complex areas
• Learning physical skills empowers people to affect the world around them

What will enrolled children do?

• Curiosity Hacked is focused primarily on learning. The world is an amazing place, with so many possibilities. Knowledge is the key to unlocking these opportunities.

• The best way to learn is by doing, and by making things young hackers can use their knowledge to make the world a better and more exciting place. Making is an empowering experience that will help our children achieve their goals.

• Curitosity Hacked provides youth with the opportunity to meet and interact with children outside their own class, school or community.

• Badges signify achievements in learning and making. After a child shows that she/he can demonstrate a specific set of skills, that child can earn a badge, which can be worn on their tool belt.

• Guild plans outings to museums, science centers, factories, engineering facilities and universities. These outings help young hackers learn new concepts with hands on exercises, or inspire children by seeing what engineers and scientists in the field are doing.

• Guild plans service projects to give back to their local community.