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Plan and organize a workshop around Google Code-in for ChickTech b/w December 9th-10th, 2017
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Wikimedia will be organizing a two-day workshop around Google Code-in for students from ChickTech b/w December 9-10th, 2017 in San Francisco, CA (657 Bryant Street).

The goal of this workshop would be to teach kids how to write simple user scripts on Wikipedia, pick related tasks from Google Code-in website and work on them with help from workshop volunteers.

TODOS

  • Brainstorming ideas for workshop theme
  • Finalize on a date and time
  • Prepare a tentative event agenda
  • Create a page about the event on MediaWiki
  • Recruit 1 or 2 Wikimedia SF staff members to help
  • Prepare workshop materials
  • Create user-scripts related GCI tasks on Phabricator
  • Organize

Event Timeline

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Page on MediaWiki about the workshop with a tentative schedule > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ChickTech_High_School_Kickoff_2017
Here is where students will document their work on tasks > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ChickTech_High_School_Kickoff_2017/Tasks
Tasks for ChickTech workshop in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/google-code-in-2017/

@srishakatux: Please note that for working on GCI tasks, participants would have to register on the GCI website, which means they'd have to have/create a Google account, give some personal information to Google (section 3.2), and provide a Parental Consent (sections 2.2 and 3.1). They could only work on one task that day, as Google will review the parental consent before a GCI contestant could claim a second task to work on. Also, certain folks might be ineligible (section 2.3).

If using GCI tasks is the plan, IMO all of this should be clearly communicated beforehand to parents, as Google is a third party.
Alternatively, there might be some good first task non- Google-Code-in-2017 tasks (but without dedicated mentors).

@Aklapper That's helpful to know! ChickTech volunteers will be sharing the pre-requisites with workshop participants before the event, and I will share this with them.

Pros: 10 participants including students and volunteers had a good time, they seemed engaged. 5 of them were students who worked on around 11 tasks related to editing Wikipedia and writing user scripts. Most of these students were new to programming, so the code snippets they wrote were their first ones. Students documented their work here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ChickTech_High_School_Kickoff_2017/Tasks
Task related to editing Wikipedia articles: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181594

Cons: Less than half of students of what we expected participated. Students who attended the workshop would not necessarily be our potential long-term contributors, and we knew it before.

Workshop materials added to > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Workshop_Materials. We could use the same page for other workshop formats and a similar style subpage for other outreach programs.

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