Education

Govt. College of Teacher Education,Thycaud conducted a 5 day workshop on “ICT for Education” from Nov 20 - Nov 26, 2013 with support of SPACE.The program, was attended by fifteen women Teacher educators and Research Scholars from across Kerala.

• Training workshop covered
• Introduction to Free Software philosophy & history
• Installation of GNU/Linux Operating system
• Introduction to programming with Processing
• Production of education Animation with play dough & paper cuttings.
• Blogging

"Maambu", A group of language enthusiasts who champion the use of Malayalam on the Internet, organised a one day seminar on  " Malayalam Computing: Challanges and Responsibilities", with the support of SPACE and Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad at Parishad Bhavan, Thiruvananthapuram on 12 October 2013. SPACE also conducted a free software installation fest at the venue.

Child Psychiatry update is a regular programme conducted every month by the Psychiatry Department of Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram. Doctors, Medical students, other para medical professionals and students and parents of children treated in their department are updated on the latest news and developments in this field through this programme.

A half day session on HTML5 and Firefox OS App was held in the forenoon of September 28th for the 5th semester students of Central Polytechnic Trivandrum (CPT).

This year SPACE organised Software Freedom Day Celebration at Kalpetta jointly with MSSRF. Highlight of this years SFD celebration was setting up of free software lab in a tribal hamlet. Two machines with free software has been now installed in Kolagappara village near Kaniyapetta. Two young girls from the locality Ms.Bindu and Ms.Sujatha were trained as volunteer to manage the centre. Mozilla WebMaker camp was organised prior to the SFD celebrations.