[2] The first event, National Hack the Government Day, was held on 7 March 2009 at the Guardian offices in King's Cross, London.

The last event run by Young Rewired State was the 2015 Festival of Code,[6] and the organisation was formally dissolved in February 2019.

[citation needed] Many developers who participated in Young Rewired State events learned coding skills outside the traditional school curriculum.

[8] Between 2009 and 2015, Young Rewired State held a national five-day hackathon where attendees across the UK took part in a competition to make an application including at least one piece of open government data.

This number rose to roughly a thousand young people participating across United Kingdom and in centres in other countries.