The annual festival presented by Mozilla brings creative people together to discuss ways to use technology to improve the lives of people from all walks of life around the world.About Hive ChattanoogaHive Chattanooga oversees eight pilot projects that take advantage of Chattanooga’s Gig City to get new technology into the hands of students. Hive CHA, as it is also known, “is an open network of youth-serving organizations, educators, teachers, schools, museums and cultural institutions across the city.” The projects are:• Adagio: An audio-mixing application that utilizes cloud storage and remote collaboration to let multiple people work on the same project in different locations.• Building an App from the Ground Up: An application-creation toolbox and digital record that will serve as a design blueprint for other youth-serving organizations. It shares work previously done.• devLearn: A mobile coding application for elementary school students which recognizes that, for many, smartphones are a primary means of Internet access.• GigBridge: A high school student-led project bolstering English language and digital literacy skills (while improving access to health education) in underserved communities, teaching English as Second Language students to construct interactive mobile applications focused on obesity education and prevention.• The GigLab: A venue for access to gigabit-connected resources for workforce development, application testing and education.• Hyperlocal Hyperaudio: A Chattanooga-centric edition of the Hyperaudio platform, creating a multimedia educational tool grounded in community history, as well as improving access to local archival history.• Viditor: A new, online video editor being piloted in local schools, Viditor, developed by students at UTC, is a multi-platform tool allowing students across the city to work on and edit film collaboratively.• Wireless Earth Watchdogs: Building a student-driven, real-time water-quality monitoring system using microcontrollers, the group is pioneering a multidisciplinary approach to digital and engineering education.Source: hivecha.orgUpcoming events• Code and Carols: An Hour of Code Holiday Party for Adults. 6-8 p.m. Tuesday. Hosted by A.I.R. Labs, the event will also include Dev Dev, Hive Chattanooga, Public Education Foundation and Tennessee Code Academy for a party for teachers, technologists and everyone in between interested learning to code.• Hour of Code: Youth Events. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Dec. 13. The first event, which will take place from 10 a.m. to noon at the Youth and Family Development Center is open to third- and fourth-grade students. The second event, which will take place from 1-3 p.m. at the Chattanooga Public Library, is open to students in fifth through eighth grades. All skill levels are welcome. This is for students interested in trying out coding for the first time or expanding their existing coding skills. No experience is necessary.
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Jonathan Susman, second from right, was one of nine people from Chattanooga who attended the MozFest in October in London.If people who attended the Mozilla Festival in London hadn’t heard of Chattanooga or Gig City prior to the event, they knew about both by the time it was over.
In fact, the nine Chattanooga residents who traveled to MozFest, an international technology festival focusing on the Internet, represented the largest contingency from any city in the world, says Lindsey Frost Cleary, community catalyst (aka director) of the Mozilla Hive Chattanooga Learning Community.
“We were everywhere,” she says.