You’re Invited to the Maker Party!

Mark your calendars: the Maker Party campaign is back for another year and will run from July 15th-September 15th!

What is Maker Party?

Maker Party is Mozilla’s annual, global campaign to celebrate making and learning, and to promote web literacy, connected learning and digital skills. The campaign unites educators, organizations, and enthusiastic web-users around thousands of community-run events that feature online and offline play and exploration. Last year, there were 1,700 events across 330 cities where people of all ages created/remixed websites, made stop-motion animation films, built robots, designed games and more. You can learn and see more on the new Maker Party website.

 

 

Last year, many Hive NYC, Toronto, Chicago and Pittsburgh members took part, and Hives became a big hub of activity within this larger campaign. This year, we’d love to tell an even more robust story about Hive Learning Networks driving city-wide involvement in this global movement.

Hive + Maker Party

A great Maker Party partner is an organization that is sharing information on the campaign or web literacy with relevant communities, or throwing events/creating resources that teach the web and digital skills. A lot of you are already doing this!

Participating in Maker Party is an opportunity to amplify your work, and also it’s a chance for Hive as a network to come together to achieve greater impact. By hosting and participating in events, Hive members collaborate and learn with colleagues, while providing more opportunities for youth to explore their interests and define new learning pathways.

Here’s an X-Ray Goggles remix outlining are few more reasons Hive members should get involved!

Here’s how you can participate:

1) Become an official Maker Party partner – there are two levels of partnership:

  • Event Partner–Host your own event, or create remixable teaching resources for other Maker Party event hosts to share with their learners.
  • Promotional Partner–Spread the word about the campaign and its mission to increase global web literacy via email/newsletters/social media.

2) Align your existing programs and events that feature making and learning.

  • Add event details to the Webmaker event platform. If you need help uploading, or even mass uploading, let us know.

3) Facilitate an activity at an upcoming Hive Toronto Maker Party.

  • We’re running several events leading up to and during the campaign and are looking for organizations to run hands-on activities (more details to come).

As a partner, Mozilla will support your participation every step of the way by:

  • Listing your organization as an official Maker Party Partner
  • Providing training on Webmaker tools and creating open ed teaching resources
  • Sharing event guides, media and messaging resources
  • Sending free swag for your events
  • Offering promotion across Mozilla channels
  • Providing regular ways to engage with other partners

We encourage every organization–whether Hive member, partner or friend–to consider how you might get involved in this campaign, and we’re happy to help you find alignments or provide additional support if needed.

If you know for sure that you’d like to become a Maker Party partner, please email makerparty@mozilla.org. They’ll need to know what level of partnership you’re interested in, and will also need your logo to add to the Maker Party site. If you want lighter touch ways to get involved, let us know at Hive HQ.

Hive has been instrumental in the past at making this campaign a success, lets do it again!