The definition of awesomeness was realized by me again, hell yea its all over again at Hive Kharagpur!!! Merely it was a place for fun, merely it was an event. Yes the thing it was, was the togetherness and determination of every mozillians in Kolkata & Kharagpur to make something good, to learn teach and share, to make Hive Successful. “Hive KGP” the best-est thing of 2014 according to me.
Overview of Hive:
Hives are comprised of organizations (libraries, museums, schools and non-profit startups) and individuals (educators, designers, community catalysts and makers). Together, they create opportunities for youth to learn within and beyond the confines of traditional classroom experiences, design innovative practices and tools that build the field for greater impact, and contribute to their own professional development within an active community of practice.
The Hive model is supported by three levels of engagement: Events: Organizations with shared learning goals unite to provide a fun, engaging event for youth as a first step towards exploring longer-term collaboration. Hive Learning Communities: Community organizers with an interest in Hive’s core principles come together to begin putting connected learning tools and practices into practice through regular meet-ups and events. Hive Learning Networks: Officially designated Learning Networks with an operational budget and staff commit to promoting innovative, open-source learning models in partnership with a communities’ civic and cultural organizations, businesses, entrepreneurs, educators and learners.
Organizer:
Umesh Agarwal – Mozilla Representative
Mentor:
Shahid Farooqui – Mozilla Reps Mentor
Location & Venue:
The location of this event was Kharagpur.
Venue Details: Prem Hari Bhavan (Beside Punjab National Bank) Malancha
Kharagpur-721304, West Bengal, India
Date: 20st & 21st December
Volunteers:
Sumantro Mukherjee
Debapriya Bhattacharya
Biraj Karmakar
Srijib Roy
Ranodeep Saha
Soumik Saha
Radha Kumari
Rish Goenka
Subham Jha
Gautam Sharma
Afnan Kayal
Koustav Samadder
Sreemegha Guha
Ishita Mukherjee
Sukanta Pal
Swarnava Sengupta
Ayan Choudhury
Schedule:
As the event was divided into 2 days. So we had different agendas for different days. First day was 20th December – Saturday and the second day was the main event i.e. on 21st December – Sunday.
Agenda – 20th December, 2014 – Saturday
| Time | Activity | Description | Goal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 AM to 09:30 AM | Registration | Registration of all Mozillians. (FSA + Reps + Volunteers) | For better arrangements and communications. |
| 09:30 AM to 09:45 AM | Introduce yourself | Introduction by individual Mozillians. | It will help to know unknown and known Mozillians better. |
| 09:45 AM to 10:00 AM | Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves | Fun warm-up dance. | It will help to feel free and open. |
| 10:00 AM to 10:30 AM | Agendas Brainstorming | Discussion of event agendas. | To set the objectives of the training based on participants interests and needs. |
| 10:30 AM to 10:45 AM | Why we #teachtheweb | Provide some context and concepts for why we teach the web. | To make everyone understand the importance of teaching web. |
| 10:45 AM to 11:00 AM | TEA BREAK | ||
| 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM | Open Session | Open Session for Web-literacy, Webmaker Tools, Fun Activities, etc | To get basic ideas of all domains. |
| 12:30 PM to 12:45 PM | Teach in Pairs. | Role play how to teach and learn. | To get refreshment. |
| 12:45 PM to 01:00 PM | Open Session recap | Individual Mozillians will share what they learned. | To know the interest of each Mozillians. |
| 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM | LUNCH BREAK | ||
| 02:00 PM to 02:30 PM | Planning of Day -2 Maker Party | What we are going to do tomorrow.i.e on Maker Party Day | To get initial ideas of arrangement with respect to booths and activities. |
| 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM | Planning of Booths and Activity | How each responsible Mozillians will have to handle his booth or activity. | To teach them how to make their booth or responsibility better. |
| 03:30 PM to 4:00 PM | TEA BREAK | ||
| 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM | Decoration of Venue | Setup of each booth with specific theme. | To make participants feel like a wounder world. |
| 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM | Booth Testing | Final testing of Booths will take place. | To get the real-time idea of each booths. |
Agenda – 21th December, 2014 – Sunday
Important Booths:
SET-1
BOOTH-1 -> About Mozilla and its Mission - Booth Leader - Ishita Mukherjee
BOOTH-2 -> Web-literacy - Booth leader - Umesh Agarwal
Webmaker: https://webmaker.org/en-US/tools BOOTH 3 -> a. Thimble b. X-Ray Goggles - Booth Leader - Ayan Choudhury BOOTH 4 -> Popcorn Maker - Booth Leader - Kumar Subham BOOTH 5 -> Appmaker - Booth Leader - Sumantro Mukherjee
SET-2
BOOTH 6 -> FSA - Booth Leader - Gautam Sharma
BOOTH 7 -> Open Badge - Booth Leader - Sukanta Pal
BOOTH 8 -> Mozilla Gear Store - Booth Leader - Soumik Saha
SET-3
BOOTH 9 -> Firefox OS - Booth Leader - Biraj Karmakar & Sreemegha Guha
BOOTH 10 -> Lightbeam - Booth Leader - Koustav Samadder
BOOTH 11 -> Firefox for Desktop & Fennec - Booth Leader - Swarnava Sengupta
Important Fun Activities:
SET-4
BOOTH 12 -> Robotics: How to make a simple manual and autonomous robot. With some cool Robots at display and for use - Booth Leader - Ranodeep Saha
BOOTH 13 -> Electronics: How to make circuits on Breadboard. How to make cool stuffs with LED's with some demo stuffs at display - Booth Leader - Srijib Roy
SET-5
BOOTH 14 -> T-shirt Painting: Make you own T-Shirt with theme as Web Technology and web-literacy. Junkotronics: Make something from scrap items. Turn scrap to gold by innovative ideas. - Booth Leader - Debapriya Bhattacharya
SET-6
Registration Desk - Rishu Goenka
Help Desk - Radha Kumari
SET-7
Overall Organization & Logistics Management - Umesh Agarwal & Shahid Farooqui
Photography & Videography - Afnan Kayal & Pinaki Bhandari
Participated School:
- Sacred Heart High School
- St. Agnes School
- Kendriya Vidyalaya No-1 Kalaikunda
- Kendriya Vidyalaya No-2 Kalaikunda
- Kendriya Vidyalaya IIT Kharagpur
- Kendriya Vidyalaya Jhapatapur
- Christopher Day School Kharagpur
- St Joseph School Kharagpur
- DAV School IIT Kharagpur
- Railway Mixed School Kharagpur
Picture:
Day 1
Day 2
Picture & Camera Courtesy: Biraj Karmakar & Pinaki Bhandari
Event Links:
1. Reps Portal
3. Mozilla Wiki
Ayan Choudhury 