[TriLUG] 1-day highschool workshop ideas

[Scott Sexton via TriLUG]

You've got to come up with something that they can relate with...  LAMP
stacks and Wordpress are simple and would take less than a day, but what
high school students blog or run their own website? Kids are too busy doing
Snapchat, After School or whatever the app du jour is.  Is there a simple
collaboration type server that can be set up that already has associated
android/iOS apps that might be more relatable? Perhaps fire up a VPS,
install Mattermost, have the kids set it up and install their apps on their
phones and start chatting?

Scott S.

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 1:01 PM Thomas V Thomas via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> You may be able to setup a free compute engine on Google Cloud Platform
> (credit card may be required for initial setup)
>
> https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/frequently-asked-questions
> https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/always-free-usage-limits
>
> Google Compute Engine - Always Free Tier:
> 1 f1-micro instance per month (US regions only - Excluding Northern
> Virginia)
> 30 GB-months HDD, 5 GB-months snapshot
> 1 GB network egress from North America to all region destinations per month
> (excluding China and Australia)
>
> There may also be other services providing free limited VPS or Cloud
> hosting services.
>
> Below are few links which may be of interest to students,
>
> Setup LAMP stack (maybe short introduction to OS, Webserver, PHP &
> Databases):
> https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/setting-up-lamp
>
> Install Joomla
> https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/joomla-on-compute-engine
>
> Joomla Tutorials
> https://docs.joomla.org/Tutorials:Beginners
>
> Install Wordpress eg:
>
> http://jonnyreeves.co.uk/2016/wordpress-on-a-google-compute-engine-f1-micro/
>
> Or Setup a VPN server:
>
> https://www.linode.com/docs/networking/vpn/set-up-a-hardened-openvpn-server/
>
> Or Install Docker for an introduction to containers
>
> There are few other software solutions available via
> https://cloud.google.com/launcher/
>
> Google free compute tier may be too small to run multiple software
> packages. So some installed services may need to be shutdown if trying out
> multiple packages.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Hrivnak, Michael via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm working on ideas for a 1-day workshop targeting high school students
> > who are generally interested in exposure to the tech industry, but do not
> > necessarily have much background. Ideally by the end of the workshop,
> they
> > have accomplished something tangible. The intent is not to provide
> > training, but to get them exposed to different types of tech and
> interested
> > in potentially pursuing a career. Exposure to linux seems like a good
> thing
> > to provide, but I'm fuzzy on the details. Have some ideas?
> >
> > One idea I'm considering is to have them deploy something in a VPS. We
> > would introduce them to the idea of linux, introduce them to bash, get
> each
> > student logged into their own VPS, then <insert something interesting
> > here>. I'm not sure about the last part. Deploy a web app of some kind?
> > What would be interesting, fun, and potentially customizable? Ideally it
> > would be something they can show their family and friends afterward (we'd
> > leave their VPS running for up to a few weeks perhaps). One aspect of
> this
> > that I like is the opportunity to demystify some of how the internet
> works.
> > It puts them in charge of a server that is their own, where they can see
> > the role it plays in providing some service.
> >
> > Maybe you have another idea? Is there something with desktop linux they
> > could do that would feel like an accomplishment?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Michael
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