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Millions of young people around the world (mostly ages 8-16) are using the Scratch coding language to create their own interactive stories, games, and animations—and sharing their creations with one another in the Scratch online community. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively, essential skills for everyone in today’s society.
Did you know…
Scratch is used in every country in the world and available in more than 70 languages
In 2022, Scratch reached 100 million registered users
In 2022, Scratchers created more than 120 million new projects and they shared more than 30 million of those in the online community
Scratch is provided free of charge with support from the Scratch Foundation. For more information about Scratch, visit About Scratch.
Selected Articles
2024
Scratch Receives $7.8 Million Grant from the LEGO Foundation
The Scratch Foundation Announces Dr. Margaret Honey as its new President & CEO
2023
The Scratch Foundation Joins the STEMM Opportunity Alliance to Achieve STEMM Equity
The Scratch Education Collaborative Completes First Cohort, Launches Third Cohort
The Scratch Foundation Receives $500,000 Grant from Google to Expand Access to Coding Opportunities
The Scratch Foundation and World Wildlife Fund Launch Coding Studio For Kids to Celebrate Earth Hour
The Scratch Foundation Names Mindee H. Barham and Sarah Smirnoff as Co-Executive Directors
2022
INE Teams up with Scratch for GivingTuesday
Announcement from the Scratch Foundation’s Board of Directors
2021
Scratch Education Collaborative Launch
2020
LEGO Foundation partners with educational platform Scratch
Shawna Young Joins Scratch as Executive Director
2019
Medium - Introducing Scratch 3.0: Expanding the Creative Possibilities of Coding
TechCrunch - Scratch 3.0 is now available
EdSurge - Mitch Resnick: The Next Generation of Scratch Teaches More Than Coding
LEGO Foundation - Playfully Code your way into 2019 with the launch of Scratch 3
Raspberry Pi Foundation - Scratch 3, and upgrading our free resources
Hackaday - MIT Scratch 3.0 opens new doors for users and builders alike
2018
Medium - Creativity and Learning in the Era of AI
Artsy - What You Learned in Kindergarten Can Still Boost Your Creativity
ISTE - The story of autism - as told by an 10-year-old with autism
ISTE - How ‘wildly stupid creative decision’ turned this teen into an animator
Careers with STEM - Nurturing Creative Thinking in School and Work
ISTE - Mitch Resnick: Helping student creativity flourish
Medium - Screen Time? How about Creativity Time?
2017
USA Today - Google's latest doodle teaches you coding
Refinery29 - Today's Google Doodle Celebrates A Landmark Moment In Computer Science
Princeton Alumni Weekly - Scratch That
ISTE - 3 reasons to use Scratch across the curriculum
Mindshift - Scratch Is Evolving For Greater, More Mobile Creativity
MIT Spectrum - Wide Open Spaces
MIT News - Celebrating 10 years of Scratch
Wired - This Computer Language Is Feeding Hacker Values into Young Minds
MIT Media Lab - Celebrating 10 years of Scratch
Forbes - Fostering The Next Generation of Girls That Create And Animate
Bloomberg - Hedge Fund Pioneer's Investing Advice for Kids: Learn Coding
2016
Mashable - Google teams up with MIT to make programming easier for kids
Wall Street Journal - New Ways to Teach Young Children to Code
2015
Bright - A Different Approach to Coding
The New Yorker - Can An English Teacher Learn to Code?
Boing Boing - Scratch creators around the world collaborate on “I’d like to teach the world to code”
2013
Forbes - Your Five Year Old Can Learn to Code with an iPad App
New York Times - Very Young Programmers
edSurge - Learn to Code, Code to Learn
2007
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