{"id":9686,"date":"2013-08-15T23:04:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T03:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/?p=9686"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:42:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:42:16","slug":"london-ivory-coast-pittsburgh-and-more-a-maker-party-event-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/london-ivory-coast-pittsburgh-and-more-a-maker-party-event-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"London, Ivory Coast, Pittsburgh and more: A Maker Party event roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every week, people in the community are throwing events all over the world to celebrate Maker Party<\/a>. We’ve been showcasing many of those events and the cool things people are making on this blog, but there’s still more to share!
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Event recap done in comic form at the Hive Pittsburgh event with Sprout Fund.<\/p><\/div>
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Here’s what happened this past week:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Abidjan, Ivory Coast
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The first Maker Party<\/a> took place on last weekend in Abidjan, Ivory Coast! A large group of individuals were introduced to Webmaker tools, taken through HTML basics and taught how to create a documentary using Popcorn Maker. Here’s a quick visual<\/a> of what was happening during the day.<\/div>\n

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Toronto, Canada
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\nHundreds attended a two-day intensive PyCon Canada’s Maker Party for youth <\/a>and it looked like a blast. Individuals learned how to remix and create their own websites, videos, and more with Mozilla’s Webmaker tools. Check out some of these cool remixes using X-Ray Goggles here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
London, England
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The second edition of Popathon Creative Jam in London<\/a> took place on the weekend. This creative hack jam gave attendees a hands-on experience creating interactive stories that are truly part of the web.\u00a0Individuals learned how to hack movies<\/a> with open source tools and an attendee created this new video remix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh, USA
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At the Hive Pittsburgh Maker Party\u00a0<\/a> with Sprout Fund hundreds celebrated the ending of summer by enjoying live music, food and all kinds of hands-on maker activities and learning stations in one of the coolest lab spaces in Pittsburgh. Check out the Thimble comic being made in this picture<\/a> or the robots being made in this video<\/a>. Sprout Fund put up a blog post recap<\/a> with more information.<\/p>\n

Durgapur, India
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Hosting an event can be easy to do with a few friends like done at this Kitchen Party in Durgapur, India <\/a>where college students were taught advanced knowledge of HTML, how to remix a video with Popcorn Maker, how to hack the web with X-Ray Goggles and design a new web page with Thimble. Sounds like it was a busy kitchen party in this blog recap of the event<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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Maker Party in the news!<\/strong><\/h4>\n