"As young people create and share projects with Scratch, they develop as creative, curious, caring, and collaborative learners—skills that are more important than ever in today’s fast-changing world." —Professor Mitchel Resnick, Scratch Founder Between now and December 31st, our board of directors will match your donation dollar-for-dollar up to $22,000! Support Scratch with a year-end contribution and help keep our platform free for kids everywhere: https://ow.ly/hke650UtF6o
Scratch Foundation
Non-profit Organizations
Boston, MA 8,402 followers
We support creative coding for everyone. Scratch is a project of the nonprofit Scratch Foundation.
About us
At the Scratch Foundation, our mission is to ensure that Scratch is available for free, for everyone, so that kids around the world can express their ideas through coding. As champions of the Scratch project, we raise funds to support the project and share stories of innovation, collaboration, and learning within the global Scratch community. We focus on Scratch, the block-based programming language and online community developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Scratch makes it easy for young people to create their own interactive media projects -- like games, animations, and simulations -- and then share their creations with others in an active, online community. Scratch is available for free, for everyone. And that's why the Scratch Foundation is so important. Through gifts from individuals, corporations, and foundations, we raise funds to support the entire Scratch ecosystem, including development of new technologies, organization of events, and dissemination of learning resources. We were founded in 2013 as the Code-to-Learn Foundation by Mitchel Resnick, Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab, and David Siegel, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the investment management firm Two Sigma. Mitch and David first met as graduate students in computer science at MIT in the 1980s, and reconnected 25 years later when David's son learned to program with Scratch, developed by Mitch's research group at the MIT Media Lab. In 2015, we changed our name to the Scratch Foundation to reflect our specific focus on Scratch and its dynamic ecosystem of interacting projects (Scratch, ScratchJr, ScratchEd) and events (Scratch Day, Scratch Conference, Scratch Educator Meetups).
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http://www.scratchfoundation.org/
External link for Scratch Foundation
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Boston, MA
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2013
- Specialties
- philanthropy, partnerships, coding, learning, education, learning, k-12, and kids
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Boston, MA 021111, US
Employees at Scratch Foundation
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Eric Davis
Partner, Senior Product and Program Management Leader at InData Partners
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Maxim Schram
Enterprise Cloud Architect | 7x AWS Certified | Terraform & Kubernetes Certified | Helping companies grow faster by scaling smarter.
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Sam Lerer
Principal at General Atlantic
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Maria Janelli
Chief of Staff & Head of Impact at the Scratch Foundation
Updates
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Here's a bright idea: check out our Idea Generator! 💡 It's just one of the exciting new features on our revamped Ideas page designed to spark Scratchers' imagination and help get them started with Scratch! Visit the page to explore the Generator and so much more: https://lnkd.in/eGiy347
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At the Scratch Foundation, our work is dedicated to ensuring that kids everywhere can create what they imagine. One of the most critical parts of that mission is continuously working to enhance the accessibility of our platform. As part of the Google Blockly Accessibility Fund, we are thrilled to improve the accessibility of the Scratch platform through improved screen reader compatibility, experimental speech control for coding, and more. Learn more about the fund: https://lnkd.in/enENmW-H Google #creativelearning #techaccessibility #STEM
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With our friends at #GoogleOrg, we're empowering young people to shape the future 💪. Check out their #CSEdWeek toolkit to hear from inspiring teachers and students across America and discover classroom resources, including Scratch curriculum! https://lnkd.in/eQdUiPzk
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Want a sneak peek at the future of Scratch? 🔮 Scratch embraces innovative technology with the same creative, playful spirit we use to bring coding concepts to young people worldwide. As we explore the use of AI in Scratch, we're thinking beyond helper-bots: AI is an exciting new tool to safely support imaginative exploration. In this experiment, a spirited astronaut dog and a pragmatic robot react to a user's prompt. With our creative tools and young people's limitless imagination, the future of Scratch is bright. Even $5 can help us launch Scratch into a new era. Will you donate today? https://ow.ly/pzCm50UpTqT
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In just 15 minutes, we’re streaming LIVE from the Scratch Team YouTube channel with scientist, activist, and TIME’s first ever Kid of the Year, Gitanjali Rao! You and your class are invited to join us and create Scratch projects about innovative inventions with Scratchers worldwide: https://lnkd.in/ewWrSBE6 #HourofCode Code.org
Scratch Team
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Our President & CEO, Margaret Honey, sat down with BrainPOP to discuss Scratch's priorities, our commitment to educators, and the importance of creativity and play in learning. Learn why she believes that imagination is the currency of the future: https://lnkd.in/ewFctyPM
In the POP Seat: Margaret Honey on Scratch, Kids’ Agency, and Imagination as “the Currency of the Future”
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Ready for a live #HourofCode Create-Along on the Scratch Team YouTube channel? We’ll see you there in just one week to create projects about kindness, inventions, and so much more with inventor and activist Gitanjali Rao! RSVP here: https://ow.ly/eyMo50UjsuV Code.org
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Remixing is baked into the DNA of Scratch. From individual projects to our codebase, our community is invited to collaborate, iterate, and explore. Today, we’re excited to announce a significant step in our commitment to the Free and Open Source Software movement. Learn more about our transition to the AGPL: https://lnkd.in/dKbVwe5T
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