{"id":8792,"date":"2013-10-24T14:13:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T18:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hivevan.org\/?p=8792"},"modified":"2013-10-24T14:13:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T18:13:36","slug":"mozillayvr-rocks-teachtheweb-vancouver-mini-maker-faire-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/hive-vancouver\/mozillayvr-rocks-teachtheweb-vancouver-mini-maker-faire-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"MozillaYVR rocks at #teachtheweb at Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend (June 1 & 2), MozillaYVR<\/a> volunteers organized and rocked at #teachtheweb at this year’s Vancouver Mini Maker Faire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Saturday morning started off with Dethe<\/a> settling everyone down at our booth and then presenting his personal project Waterbear<\/a> to kick off the VMMF speaker series<\/a>. Early in the morning, the Mozilla booth already had great traffic. Jeff<\/a>, Sandie, Nick, Andy & Roland were instrumental in interacting with faire participants. Asking them to come up to the iMac to take headshots, and incorporating those images as part of their Popcorn Maker<\/a> projects! Emma<\/a> came all the way from Sooke to volunteer at VMMF along with her 2 girls Molly & Daisy. What a trooper!<\/p>\n

There were countless presentations and awesome stuff at VMMF. It is hardly “mini” at all! Just to highlight some of the cool stuff captured by Roland, here’s a slideshow!<\/p>\n

As you can see, the competition at VMMF was fierce! Thanks to our awesome Mozilla volunteers (plus cool swag), kids, families and adults were interacting & web-making away using all 3 webmaker tools<\/a>. Kids loved to “hack” their favourite websites using X-ray Goggles<\/a> and adults loved creating their own mash-up videos using Popcorn Maker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sabrina shows kids some of our awesome webmaker tools!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mavis shows VMMF participants webmaker tools<\/p><\/div>\n

Sunday was a busy day as well, we were joined by Erik<\/a>, Yvan, Dethe & his son Azlen (the youngest programmer I’ve ever met!). Emma<\/a> & I were busy preparing for our 1pm talk, again as part of the VMMF speaker series<\/a>, we did a short presentation on Mozilla Webmaker Tools<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the presentation, quite a few people were interested in learning more about the tools, including a young lady named Rose, also a web developer, who was interested in getting more involved and becoming a webmaker mentor for young girls in her community! We also had a dad with his kids who approached us, who signed up to our WebmakerBC mailing list<\/a> because he wants to register his kids for local hack jams if we host any in the near future!<\/p>\n

All in all, MozillaYVR<\/a> volunteers couldn’t have done a better job at #teachtheweb. Folks ranging from kids, parents, educators and community leaders all were blown away by the power of the tools, and more importantly, by the awesome-ness<\/em> of our volunteers! Thanks to everyone who got involved! We couldn’t have done anything without you! :)<\/p>\n

This is a repost from Mozilla BC Webmakers<\/a> blog.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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