HAX Lab is the group responsible for HAX and the process of educating student contributors for the HAX ecosystem. HAX Lab is a collaboration between IST, Arts and Architecture and other partners to contribute to and empower student success through direct on-the-job training to contribute to the HAX ecosystem.
Faculty sponsors work in HAX Lab to bring careers forward through work experience contributing to a vibrant open source ecosystem while improving the security, usability, and reach of the web.
Bryan Ollendyke, M.S.
Dr. Dave Fusco
Dr. Jennifer Frank
Michael Collins, M.F.A.
- Take a course with any of the faculty sponsors
- Apply for an internship with HAX Lab
- Get assigned issues in the HAX issue queue, document your progress on social media and through in person check-ins
- Complete an awesome internship getting experience contributing directory to open source while reducing the cost of education for future students!
Interns of HAX Lab most recent to original.
- Aarya Awasthy - 2 Portfolio themes for HAXcms, Summer 2025
- Nazman Rosman - Glossy Portfolio theme for HAXcms, Summer 2025
- CCSO - 2025 HAX Pentest - Spring 2025
- Josh Owen-Guenther - Portfolio Theme - Spring 2025
- Winston White - Theme CLI workflow - Spring 2025
- Skyler Koba - Start Journey Screen - Spring 2025
- Isabella Masso - Start Journey Screen - Spring 2025
- Winston White - Polaris Themes, Flex Map Menu - Fall 2024
- Kai Huang - Auditing DDD Usage, QA Elements in Monorepo - Fall 2024
- Zach Dodson - AI Chat Agent - Summer 2024
- Keith Charlton - DDD Creation - Spring 2024
- Andrew Maier - JWT policy review and build Headless user authentication prototype - 2023
- Liz Blake, Andrew Maier, Taylor Bracone - HAX Camp 2022 planning committee - 2022
- James Kane IV, Drew Ronk, Elizabeth Delor - 8-bit video game aesthetic and user flow for site creation - Spring 2022
- Hanna Kern - Vocab web component for presenting terms - 2021
- Collin Kleest - Bootstrap Theme for HAXcms - Spring 2021
- Sara Cunningham - Media dashboard UX prototype development - 2020
- Tevin Julien - Pre-release HAX UX study - 2020
- Shiju "Tom" Varughese - HAX Multimedia production, HAX Camp Duke planning committee, social media - 2019
- Mark Milutinović - Original ELMS:LN / Drupal student contributor - 2017
- Dave Fusco - xAPI and AI Integration - Fall 2016
edtechjoker is the code name for class projects in IST 256 where student final projects are to take a shared issue from the issue queue and work to try and achieve that. This gives students real world working experience on a real problem and in some cases their code reaches a level where it is ingested directly into the project! These are some examples of this