(SSR16-001) FOSS OUTREACH PROGRAM

   MISSION:

·         Outreach Program of Open Source

·         To spread awareness on upcoming Google Code-In Camp.

·         Introduction to the field of Open Source.

·         To make them understand on importance of competitions.

·         To increase the number of younger contributions to Open Source.

·         To help women overcome technophobia.

3           CORE CONTRIBUTORS:

·         CATEGORY: SSR

·         TEAM CODE: (SSR16-001)

·         THE TEAM:

DEVI R KRISHNAN          AM.EN.U4CSE14120

HARITHA H                     AM.EN.U4CSE14030

H CHAITHANYA           AM.EN.U4CSE14028

·         PLACE:

BNV Higher Secondary School, Thiruvallam, Trivandrum

4                ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN:

•          Inspiring and motivating students to code

•          Introduction to Open Source:

•          Workshop

•          Session

•          Talks

5                 BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM:

·         According to the education system in our country, it focuses primarily on textbook-studies and getting a job.

·         The fact that kids run behind marks and not skills, make them unaware of their latent talent.

·         lack of exposure to technology is proving to be a hindrance in their road to excellence

·         The students were not able grasp things when told in English, so we did our entire session in Malayalam

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        THE CONQUEST:

·         Positive responses that we’ve got from the students of the BNV Higher Secondary School and the students of the TKM Engineering College

·         Positive response that we got from the young ladies of the computer science branch

·         They were able to express their problems.

   OBSTACLES FACED:

·         We were not able to find a school which was ready to conduct the camp.

·         We were unable to get a projector and had to arrange one. The school had poor infrastructure. We couldn’t find proper hall to conduct the workshop.

·         we were not able to conduct the hands on workshop for the students on basic basic Linux commands because of the unavailability of computer lab.

   TOTAL MAN HOURS FOR ACCOMPLISHMENT:

·         24 hours

   ROAD AHEAD:

·         To give more talks to the kids on having confidence in oneself and to not be afraid of about venturing into new things

   ROSES AND THORNS:

·         We got to understand the difficulties and concerns of the students directly from them and we were able provide solution to most of it.

·         We understood the difficulties of a teacher handling a class of roughly around 40 students. The students were absolutely new to the technical world and did not have much experience with coding

·         We are glad that we inspired them and helped them to get out of their comfort zone in order to achieve great things.