Wednesday 2 July 2014

MozKidz!!

Hello all!!Few months back we came up with a program called "Moztarang",to educate high school students from government schools regarding open source & mozilla community.Now,the extension to the this program with (spiced up ;)) is "MozKidz",where students will be given a chance to develop web pages using a tool called Thimble under the Web-Maker project from the Mozilla Club JITS.(Mozilla Community Warangal).

To be frank,this is the most awesome event that i have been part of as an organizer.Because,it's not always easy to make school children understand regarding the development and making web,holding their interest and concentration is itself a big task ;).But,I and other speakers,Bhargav Gupta,Hemanth,Ajay,Maniraj and Shasha,we were successful at it.On 28th of this month,at Shanthiniketan High School(Mai & Sasha were the students of this school;)),planned this event,where there were 80 students who attended this program,all of them were full of energy,bright and bold.We started with the concepts of computers where the terminology like,Data-Memory-Storage were dealt(these were the answers from them,shocked to listen them from students of 8th grade).and then we moved to the kinds of s/w and made them to understand the difference b/w proprietary ad open source s/w's(Using an example such as:"a birthday chocolate is open source,free and a chocolate that you buy from a shop is proprietary ;)",they have connected to this).Later on the concepts of web and then we introduced the webmaker project,html tags and asked students to make few projects(Hands-on).

Believe me,these students raised so many questions (happy that we cleared them),they can hack fb profiles,they are good at JavaScript and we ended discussing about network security and pass-phrases.It was an all together fun-filled,technical program,that too with these chota-bombs ;).

It's always a test to deal with such amazing students,ad the feed back was too good,they want a regular program scheduled for this which includes JS classes :).Thanks to Ajay,Hemanth,Bharga,Mani and specially Sasha for planning it and arranging things to make this a memorable event.Trust me,you need to interact with such kids to know yourself better.Thanks for the school management for the co-operation and yea i promise to make many such things and the team of MCW will always be ready :)
Here's a video link regarding the feedback: http://youtu.be/gDZUhAvJZU0

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