{"id":12007,"date":"2014-08-01T11:54:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T15:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/?p=12007"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:41:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:41:13","slug":"nepal-virginia-dehli-and-more-a-maker-party-roundup-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/nepal-virginia-dehli-and-more-a-maker-party-roundup-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal, Virginia, Dehli and more: A Maker Party Roundup (Week 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maker Party By The Numbers:<\/span>
\nTotal events during Maker Party: 879<\/strong>
\nIndividuals attending Maker Party events:\u00a0 40,000+<\/strong>
\nNumber of cities hosting Maker Party events: 220<\/strong>
\nWelcome to the third week of Maker Party<\/a>! The last two weeks have been very exciting and we have seen people all over the world step up to help us teach the web by planning and throwing events.\u00a0 Let’s take a closer look at some of the awesome events that made last week great.
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Mozilla and WeTech’s Woman Maker Party in Delhi<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Here’s what happened last week:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Code for Nepal’s Digital Empowerment Training – July 21-August 1st, Nepal<\/i>
\n20 young women are being taken through a two-week course to improve their digital skills, including coding, blogging, and social media management, as well as entrepreneurship and leadership training. Get more information about the event here<\/a>.
\nCoderDojo Girls: The Maker Party – July 21-24th, Charlottesville, Virginia <\/i>
\nIn this week-long event a group of young girls were given the opportunity to become full-fledged makers. By using Scratch, Makey Makey, Thimble and other tools, these girls learned to code a song, make game controllers, create animations and so much more! Check out their Makes, Pictures and more<\/a>.
\nSteam Studio: July 21-25th, Chicago, U.S. <\/i>
\nParticipants of Steam Studio’s design bootcamp faced real world challenges where youth were required to use a variety of design and production tools to create artifacts. More information and the week’s activities and pictures can be found here<\/a> .
\nScience Lab Global Sprint – July 22-23th, around the world\u00a0<\/i>
\nOver 22 cities around the world participated in this 52 hour sprint on tools, lesson materials and resources for open science. Lessons and materials included medical imaging, Bioinformatics, materials for data on the web, data visualization and more. See the Makes and read the blog here<\/a>.
\nMozilla and WeTech’s Woman Maker Party – July 23rd, Delhi <\/i>
\nA small group of women gathered in Delhi to talk open source and make with each other.\u00a0 In this celebration we saw discussions around females in technology and for many, their first hands-on training for how to make on the web. Read the recap and see the pictures here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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