Mozilla festival: from 2 out of 10 to a straight 10
The day started off badly.
I took my daughter, on Saturday, along to the Mozilla Festival to give her an idea of some of the stuff I work with. Only to get stopped at the entrance to the building because the college hosting the event had a strict ‘no children’ policy. And despite the best efforts of Mozilla, there was nothing we could do about it. Ironic really as a big part of the event was about children and education.
But, she was allowed into the Hive London Pop-Up event at midday. So we went off, I consoled her with a chocolate milkshake at The O2, and went back later.
Then her day really took off. First she had a go creating a dreamyard.
Then she went on to make a video and podcast of her dream yard. Complete with learning how to cut and edit the report with WNYC Radio Rookies…
Then on to the Digital-Me stand where she learnt how to make interviews. And went around interviewing anyone she could find. Including…
and even Mitchell Baker!
She even made the festival news.
And now she is sitting next to me editing CSS after learning how to hack the web with Mozilla’s Hackasaurus project.
As she said, “the day started off 2 out of 10 and went on to 10 out of 10″
Thank you Mozilla for a wonderful event. I think you may have changed another young person’s life for the better.
Brilliant post - I think it really shows what great work all the folk involved in the Hive Popup were doing Friday and Saturday..and how important that work is to the future of Mozilla..
Plus as I think your daughters debut interview I have to say I think she has a future at the Beeb
Thank you for this wonderful post! Your daughter was a delight to work with and she helped make our experience so great!
nice. We need to create specific operations to motivate more new comers.
Thanks for your comments. Hive London is such a brilliant idea - there needs to be Hive Popups everywhere. And the way Amira just took to the Hive projects so easily shows learning Web technologies must start with primary children. Teenage is too late.