Event

Scratch @ MIT 2014

LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor DescriptionThis is a ticketed event. Follow on Twitter using #ScratchMIT2014.

Thursday — Saturday
August 7, 2014 —
August 9, 2014
Event

Scratch@MIT

LocationMIT Media Lab DescriptionThe Scratch community keeps growing and growing. Young people around the world have shared more than 14 mi…

Thursday — Saturday
August 4, 2016 —
August 6, 2016
Event

Scratch@MIT

LocationMIT Media Lab DescriptionOver 300 participants from all over the world sharing ideas on the Scratch programming tool for kids.

Tuesday — Thursday
June 24, 2008 —
June 26, 2008
Event

Scratch Day @ MIT 2019

Join the Scratch Team on May 11 at the MIT Media Lab to meet, share, learn, and celebrate Scratch Day with local Scratchers!

Saturday
May 11, 2019
9:00am — 1:00pm ET
Video

#33 Scratch@MIT

Event

Mitch Resnick Keynote @ Iberoamerican Congress on Scratch

LocationOmar Dengo Foundation, San José, Costa Rica DescriptionThis congress is to serve as a forum for exchange of experiences that enrich…

Thursday
June 30, 2011
Event

Karen Brennan and Mitch Resnick @ Scratch Conference

LocationBarcelona Description

Thursday
July 25, 2013
Person

Mitchel Resnick

LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research

Event

Scratch Day 2017

This year, Scratch Day marks the 10th anniversary of the programming language and its worldwide community.

Article

AoA Podcast Episode 2: A Conversation with Author & Scratch Developer Mitch Resnick

Engaging students on and off the screen and the magic of being a lifelong kindergartner.

Event

Scratch Day 2018

Join the Scratch Team on May 12 at the MIT Media Lab to meet, share, learn, and celebrate Scratch Day with local Scratchers!After an openin…

Saturday
May 12, 2018
Project

Scratch Day

Scratch Day (day.scratch.mit.edu) is a network of face-to-face local gatherings, on the same day in all parts of the world, where people ca…

Post

Celebrating 10 years of Scratch

Scratch Day @ MIT was one of over 1,110 such events around the world in May.

Event

Scratch: The Next Generation

Scratch@MIT is a playful gathering of educators, researchers, developers, and other members of the worldwide Scratch community.

Thursday — Saturday
July 26, 2018 —
July 28, 2018
Project

Scratch

Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…

Project

Scratch in Practice

Scratch in Practice (SiP) shares stories, strategies, and resources from the Scratch Team and educators around the world. The SiP website f…

Project

Scratch Online Community

Launched in 2007, the Scratch Online Community enables children, primarily between the ages of 8 and 16, to share interactive media such as…

Article

Mitch Resnick: The next generation of Scratch teaches more than coding

Much has changed since we introduced the first generation of our Scratch programming language and online community, back in 2007.

Video

Celebrating Scratch

Event

Media Lab @ CHI 2014

LocationToronto, Canada Description

Saturday — Thursday
April 26, 2014 —
May 1, 2014
Event

Joi Ito @ Solid 2014

LocationSan Francisco, CA Description

Tuesday — Wednesday
May 21, 2013 —
May 22, 2013
Event

Ed Boyden @ Techonomy 2014

LocationHalf Moon Bay, CA Description

Sunday — Tuesday
November 9, 2014 —
November 11, 2014
Event

Joe Paradiso @ Moogfest 2014

LocationAsheville, North Carolina Description

Wednesday — Monday
April 23, 2014 —
April 28, 2014
Project

ScratchEd

As Scratch proliferates through the world, there is a growing need to support learners. But for teachers, educators, and others who are pri…

Article

Introducing Scratch 3.0

The new version of the popular free coding platform builds on a robust community of kid coders.

Event

Scratch Day

LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor DescriptionJoin the Scratch Team at the MIT Media Lab to meet, share, learn, and celebrate Scratch Day wit…

Saturday
May 14, 2016
Article

Educators gather for first Scratch Africa Conference

Educators from across Africa are gathering in Nairobi, Kenya for the first Scratch Africa Conference.

Post

Scratch Epidemic Simulator

Explore how the spread is "flattened" when more people stay at home—and modify the code to try out your own ideas and theories.

Event

Media Lab @ SXSW Interactive 2014

LocationAustin, TX DescriptionCheck out sxsw.media.mit.edu to find all the Media Lab talks & events @ SXSW Interactive 2014 in one place!Lo…

Friday — Wednesday
March 7, 2014 —
March 12, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: 2014 SXSW Interactive Awards

Location6th Floor, Downtown Austin Hilton (500 East 4th St.). Description#MLSXSWSXSW Interactive Festival Hall of Fame Honors Top Industry …

Tuesday
March 11, 2014
Video

#6 Scratch

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art—and shar…

Article

2014 SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame Inductee: Joi Ito of the MIT Media Lab

Project

Scratch Mondays

Scratch Mondays is an initiative  to share the Scratch Day spirit to schools in Brazil. After having a big Scratch Day event in 2018 i…

Event

Scratch Day!

LocationAll around the world Description

Saturday — Sunday
May 19, 2012 —
May 20, 2012
Event

Scratch Day

LocationAround the World! DescriptionScratch Day is a worldwide network of gatherings, where people will come together to meet other Scratc…

Saturday
May 16, 2009
Event

Platform Tech Summit - 2014

Topper Carew speaking at Platform Tech Summit - 2014

Saturday
November 15, 2014
Project

Scratch 3.0

Since the release of Scratch in 2007, young people around the world have programmed and shared more than 15 million Scratch projects . The …

Video

Scratch Conference 2018: Day 3

Day 3 scheduleScratch@MIT is a playful gathering of educators, researchers, developers, and other members of the worldwide Scratch communit…

Video

Scratch Conference 2018: Day 2

Day 2 scheduleScratch@MIT is a playful gathering of educators, researchers, developers, and other members of the worldwide Scratch communit…

Video

Scratch Conference 2018: Day 1

Day 1 scheduleScratch@MIT is a playful gathering of educators, researchers, developers, and other members of the worldwide Scratch communit…

Project

Scratch Extensions

The Scratch extension system enables anyone to extend the Scratch programming language through custom programming blocks written in JavaScr…

Project

Scratch in Space

The Scratch Team invited young people from around the world to create Scratch projects designed specifically to be played in zero grav…

Project

Scratch Worlds

What if everyone could create their own interactive content in virtual worlds? We are putting the playful and intuitive features of Scratch…

Project

Scratch Board

With the Scratch Board, people can use sensors to control interactive stories and games that they create with the Scratch programming langu…

Project

Mobile Scratch

We are developing a special version of our Scratch programming language to enable people to create, play, and share interactive media on mo…

Project

Map Scratch

Map Scratch is an extension of Scratch that enables kids to program with maps within their Scratch projects. With Map Scratch, kids can cre…

Project

Scratch for Arduino

The Arduino platform makes prototyping and tinkering with electronics open to more people, but its complicated programming language is a ba…

Post

Scratch hits a major milestone—100 million global users!

Scratch, a coding platform for children, was developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Media Lab in 2007.

Publication

Scratch: Creating and sharing interactive media

Karen Brennan, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Mitchel Resnick

Article

The Next Generation of Scratch

The MIT Scratch Team shares what’s next for Scratch and what it means for the community

Project

Scratch Community Blocks

Scratch Community Blocks is an NSF-funded project that extends the Scratch programming language to enable youth to analyze and visualize th…

Project

Getting Started with Scratch

Every day, young people around the world use the Scratch programming language to create and share thousands of interactive projects on the …

Publication

The Scratch programming language and environment

John Maloney, Mitchel Resnick, Natalie Rusk, Brian Silverman, Evelyn Eastmond

Project

Scratch for Computer Science

Although we designed Scratch primarily as a means for personal expression, a growing number of high schools and colleges (including Harvard…

Project

Scratch BlockArt

Scratch BlockArt is an experimental visualization tool designed to let children discover their own computational patterns on Scratch. Exist…

Publication

Scratch: A Sneak Preview

John Maloney, Leo Burd, Yasmin Kafai, Natalie Rusk, Brian Silverman, Mitchel Resnick

Publication

Alice, Greenfoot, and Scratch - A discussion

Ian Utting, Stephen Cooper, Michael Kolling, John Maloney, Mitchel Resnick

Publication

Scratch-Ed: An online community for Scratch educators

Karen Brennan