PROJECT ABSTRACT

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, music, and animations—and share your creations on the Web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design. Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, with financial support from the National Science Foundation and the Intel Foundation. The software is available free of charge from http://scratch.mit.edu.

VIEW	MIT Press Release Scratch Homepage Backgrounders: (pdf) Creating with Scratch | Learning with Scratch | Programming with Scratch
WATCH	Overview of Scratch by Group Members (.swf) Scratch Introduction Video (.wmv) Overview of Scratch by Mitchel Resnick (.rm)
DOWNLOAD IMAGES	Photographs from a Scratch Workshop Download 4 images | Photo credits (left to right): L. Barry Hetherington, Grace Chui (2), Karen Randall Screenshots of Scratch Projects and Program Interfaces Download 4 images Screenshots of Scratch Programs Download 2 images
PROJECT DIRECTOR	Mitchel Resnick, Lifelong Kindergarten Group
CONTACT	Press Alexandra Kahn, Press Liaison, MIT Media Lab akahn **at** media.mit.edu or 617 253-0365