Maker Party Bhubaneshwar

Last weekend I had a blast in Bhubaneshwar. Over two days, I was there at two different colleges for two Maker parties.

Saturday (23rd August 2014), we were at the Center of IT & Management Education (CIME) where we were asked to address a crowd of 100 participants whom we were supposed to teach webmaking. Trust me, very rarely do we get such crowd in events where we get the opportunity to be less of a teacher and more of a learner. We taught them Webmaking, true, but in return we learnt a lot from them.

Maker Party at Center of IT & Management Education (CIME)

On Sunday, things were even more fabulous at Institute of Technical Education & Research(ITER), Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University college, where we were welcomed by around 400 participants, all filled with energy, enthusiasm and the willingness to learn.

Maker Party at Institute of Technical Education & Research(ITER)

Our agenda for both days were simple....to have loads and loads of fun! We kept the tracks interactive and very open ended. On both days, we did cover the following topics:

Introduction to Mozilla
Mozilla Products and projects
Ways of contributing to Mozilla
Intro to Webmaker tools
Hands-on session on Thimble, Popcorn and X-ray goggles and Appmaker

Both days, we concluded our sessions by giving away some small tokens of appreciation like e T-shirts, badges, stickers etc, to the people who had been extra awesome among the group. We concluded the awesomeness of the two days by cutting a very delicious cake and fighting over it till its last pieces.

Cake.....

Bading goodbye after two days was tough, but after witnessing the enthusiasm of everyone we met during these two events, I am very sure we are going to return soon to Bhubaneshwar for even more awesomeness.

A few people who are two be thanked for making these events sucessful and very memorable are:

Sayak Sarkar, the co-organizer for this event.
Sumantro, Umesh and Sukanta from travelling all the way from Kolkata and helping us out with the sessions.
Rish and Prasanna for organizing these events.
Most importantly, the entire team of volunteers from both colleges without whom we wouldn't havebeen able to even move a desk.

p.s - Not to forget, we did manage to grab media's attention as well. The event was covered by a local newspaper.

The article in the newspaper next morning

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