Timeline

2015

2014

  • Digital Ready pilot continues with 27 organizations collaborating with 20 schools to provide interest-based expanded learning opportunities to public school youth across New York City
  • Hive Fund awards 30 project grants and 12 travel grants, over $1.08 M awarded
  • Hive Learning Communities launched in CHA, KC, Bay Area
  • Hive NYC opens its doors inviting aligned educators and practitioners to explore, contribute and lead within its peer learning community
  • Official sponsor of World Maker Faire, featuring Hive members from across North America and India
  • Hive Research Lab “Working Open” community white paper published

2013

  • 15 organizations join Hive NYC as members
  • Pittsburgh’s Sprout Fund launches Hive Pittsburgh, providing catalytic funding through Fund for Connected Learning
  • Hive Toronto Learning Network launches providing collaborative partnership funding through Ontario Trillium Foundation
  • Hive Research Lab launches two-year study of youth trajectories and diffusion of innovation across network
  • Mozilla Maker Party campaign activates new cities across the globe to explore developing Hive-like communities
  • Hive NYC partners with the NYC Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Readiness on Digital Ready pilot with 10 city high schools
  • 21 grants awarded totaling over $1,460,700

2012

  • Connected Learning framework launches
  • Hive NYC HQ and Mouse collaborate to train a team of “Mozilla Youth Ambassadors” who learn about webmaking through hands-on Hackasaurus workshops
  • Mozilla Webmaker initiative launches with Summer of Code campaign
  • Five organizations join Hive NYC as members
  • Joined NYC Summer Quest Task Force, to bring STEAM (Science Technology Art Math) programming to a three-year pilot program in the Bronx with the NYC Department of Education, Fund for Public Schools and Department of Youth and Community Development
  • 30 grants awarded totaling over $1,672,00 in project funds

Mozilla Hive NYC Learning Network (Hive NYC) is a city-wide laboratory where educators, technologists and mentors design innovative, connected educational experiences for youth. Together, these institutions create an ecosystem of opportunities for young people to explore their interests and develop key 21st-century skills.


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2011

  • Following a branding workshop with teens, New Youth City relaunches as Hive NYC Learning Network
  • Hive Chicago Learning Network launches
  • Release of Connected Learning design principles
  • Mozilla becomes steward of Hive NYC
  • 15 organizations join as members
  • First Hive Pop-Up takes place at Mozilla Festival in London
  • 22 grants awarded totaling over $1M in project funds

2010

  • 14 organizations join as members
  • Network members attend Mozilla Drumbeat Festival in Barcelona, and collaborate to develop idea for Hackasaurus/X-Ray Goggles, the first iteration of current suite of Webmaker tools
  • The New York Community Trust joins with MacArthur foundation to create Hive Digital Media Learning Fund

2009

  • New Youth City Learning Network launches with five member organizations as part of the Digital Media and Learning Initiative at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  • Social Science Research Council and Parsons The New School for Design act as network facilitators
  • Two more organizations join as members
  • First NYC World Maker Faire showcases New Youth City Learning Network projects