Infect them while they're young !

Plan9 Summer Camp 2014 – a three week camp offering development of skills including computer programming, animation, photography, writing, public speaking and graphic designing – kicked off on 16th July 2014.

I saw this as an opportunity to teach these kids about the open web and Mozilla. Therefore, along with Muhammad Mehmood Ali, I took up the task to teach basics of web programming in this camp. We used the Webmaker tools to demonstrate how to make and remix webpages.

This workshop proved to be really fruitful since these kids understood what the open web really means. We showed them the code of any website that they wanted using the the 'inspect element' option. They were also asked to make a single page website representing Pakistan's culture and since it wasn't a pure maker-party, we gave them the liberty to use the editor of their choice. There were also videos queued up like 'The Mozilla Story", "The Web We Want", "I Am a Mozillian", etc, which were showed during these sessions to keep them motivated and informed. A lot of these kids switched to Firefox and promised to spread the word amongst their friends and family.