MozillaYVR rocks at #teachtheweb at Vancouver Mini Maker Faire

[Helen Lee]

Hello,

This is a re-post from the BC Webmakers
<http://bc.mozillacanada.org/>website. The latest blog post about
Mozilla volunteers who #teachtheweb at
Vancouver Mini Maker Faire.

Please feel free to share.

Thanks,

Helen

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Over the weekend (June 1 & 2), MozillaYVR
<https://twitter.com/MozillaYVR>volunteers organized and rocked at
#teachtheweb at this year’s Vancouver
Mini Maker Faire <http://vancouver.makerfaire.ca/>.

Saturday morning started off with Dethe
<https://twitter.com/dethe>settling everyone down at our booth and
then presenting his personal
project Waterbear <http://waterbearlang.com/> to kick off the VMMF speaker
series<http://vancouver.makerfaire.ca/vancouver-mini-maker-faire-speaker-series/>.
Early in the morning, the Mozilla booth already had great traffic.
Jeff<https://twitter.com/canuckistani>,
Sandie, Nick, Andy & Roland were instrumental in interacting with faire
participants. Asking them to come up to the iMac to take headshots, and
incorporating those images as part of their Popcorn
Maker<https://popcorn.webmaker.org/>projects!
Emma <https://twitter.com/sunnydeveloper> came all the way from Sooke to
volunteer at VMMF along with her 2 girls Molly & Daisy. What a trooper!

There were countless presentations and awesome stuff at VMMF. It is hardly
“mini” at all!

As you can see, the competition at VMMF was fierce! Thanks to our awesome
Mozilla volunteers (plus cool swag), kids, families and adults were
interacting & web-making away using all 3 webmaker
tools<https://webmaker.org/en-US/tools/>.
Kids loved to “hack” their favourite websites using X-ray
Goggles<https://webmaker.org/en-US/tools/x-ray-goggles/>and adults
loved creating their own mash-up videos using Popcorn
Maker <https://popcorn.webmaker.org/>.

*Sabrina shows kids some of our awesome webmaker tools!*

*Mavis shows VMMF participants webmaker tools*

Sunday was a busy day as well, we were joined by
Erik<https://twitter.com/erikvold>,
Yvan, Dethe & his son Azlen (the youngest programmer I’ve ever met!).
Emma<https://twitter.com/sunnydeveloper>& I were busy preparing for
our 1pm talk, again as part of the VMMF
speaker series<http://vancouver.makerfaire.ca/vancouver-mini-maker-faire-speaker-series/>,
we did a short presentation on Mozilla Webmaker
Tools<https://webmaker.org/en-US/tools/>
.

After the presentation, quite a few people were interested in learning more
about the tools, including a young lady named Rose, also a web developer,
who was interested in getting more involved and becoming a webmaker mentor
for young girls in her community! We also had a dad with his kids who
approached us, who signed up to our WebmakerBC mailing
list<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/webmaker-canada-bc>because he
wants to register his kids for local hack jams if we host any in
the near future!
All in all, MozillaYVR <https://twitter.com/MozillaYVR> volunteers couldn’t
have done a better job at #teachtheweb. Folks ranging from kids, parents,
educators and community leaders all were blown away by the power of the
tools, and more importantly, by the *awesome-ness* of our volunteers!
Thanks to everyone who got involved! We couldn’t have done anything without
you!