Do your kids Scratch? Nope, this isn’t a medical question.
Scratch is a free programming language developed for kids. From elementary school to college, kids use it to create interactive stories to building animations and games. In the meantime, they’re learning programming principles and collaboration skills–important stuff for the future. Scratch is available in over forty languages, and is in use in one hundred fifty countries.
This Saturday, May 17, is International Scratch Day–and events are popping up everywhere. See if there’s an event near you where you and your kids can learn more about programming!
The MIT Media Lab group Lifelong Kindergarten developed Scratch in 2003 and the project has received grants from the National Science Foundation as well as Intel Foundation, Microsoft, MacArthur Foundation, LEGO Foundation, Code-to-Learn Foundation, Google, Dell, and others.
This post was last modified on November 26, 2017 11:04 pm
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