Last Saturday (25 March) we did a JavaScript for Absolute Beginners workshop in Berlin again.
This one was particularly special as we successfully reached out to new people - in this case refugees. We got invited by Neue Nachbarschaft Moabit, a community initiative for bringing together newcomers and locals, to do the workshop at their wonderful café. We were happy to have a diverse group of learners, coaches and organizers, half of them members of the Neue Nachbarschaft community.
People enjoying learning together and connecting.
Everyone is busy making the browser smile. pic.twitter.com/Q6m7w8dKkY
— OpenTechSchool BLN (@OTS_BLN) 25. März 2017
American artists, Syrian refugees, born Berliners, Chinese engineers, meeting in a room to learn JavaScript together. Amazing!
— Hëävü Mëtäl Westin (@karlwestin) 25. März 2017
A big Thank You goes out to the many helping hands that
- organized everything regarding the venue
- prepared the OpenTechSchool laptops so we could give them out to learners that didn’t bring one
- installed extra Freifunk routers to make the wifi stable enough for the 40 people we had in the room
- gave presentations about OTS and JavaScript
and of course to the coaches!
Some of the learners volunteered to participate in establishing a new Open Co-Learning at Neue Nachbarschaft.
We are looking forward to run more successful events with Neue Nachbarschaft.
