My Experience as a Firefox Student Ambassador

About a year ago I made one of the most phenomenal decisions of my entire life, to join the Firefox Student Ambassador program powered my Mozilla foundation. As an FSA I had grown a lot in terms of Mozilla, its advocacy for an open and decentralized web.

I joined the program through the Mozilla wiki and acquired a lot of skills and knowledge about Mozilla, its products and the web at large. I became a Firefox club lead, the first in Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, in my country and am organizing events which will see me excel in public speaking, increase in my knowledge base and help ascend the skills i acquired to upcoming FSAs and the community at large.

Mozilla Products

Tshepo Tamajobe +Limkokwing University of Creative Technology 

I also got to know that there is more to Mozilla than the Firefox web browser, with products like Firefox OS, Thunderbird, Bugzilla and others I was bound to go above and beyond to join other communities like the user support forum, SUMO https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/ which saw me become a Tswana (tn) locale leader, helping users to understand these products. I also had the liberty of joining the local localization team http://mozilla.locamotion.org/

@Embassy Gaborone, Botswana’s Young African Leaders’ Initiative (#YALI) Network, and Botswana’s Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) held a three-day education reform workshop. This in-service training workshop combines leadership development, mentoring, and networking opportunities for young professional teachers. This workshop helped empower teachers to identify key challenges in their schools and to develop result-oriented projects to address those challenges. #BotswanaYALINetwork will monitor and mentor these teachers while they implement their projects.