Scratch Joke Book

Here are some great shots from Scratch Day 2013 at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Thanks for the shots, Keith!

shimmrglittr:

It was a great Scratch Day 13.

We had 3 different activities ( actually 4). On the 5th floor, visitors came in and could try Scratch with the Scratch sensor board - making music with the Fruit Jams project and the example project that came with Scratch 1.4 ( we used the earlier version with the sensor board and Wedo) next to that we had our Wedo Scratch drivin’ game.It truely was amazing - no explanation - just a big screen, a Scratch driving game and a plastic plate steering wheel. Kids about 3- 4 years old all the way to elders came up and tried to stay on the road.

On level 4 Cindee and Oanh introduced Scratch 2.0 with video - control projects. We played with a remix of the balloons project - butterflies and flower ( yumm!) and as you can see we had folks naturally gesturing and moving and waving their hands and arms to guide the butterflies into the flowers.

Finally we had Scratch Joke Book. Create your own animated Scratch joke and get some Laffy Taffy for inspiration and as a prize for your humor. The joke project published to a website for sharing: www.scratchjokebook.com  

It was a good day, with visitors being very comfortable and curious about Scratch, with some expert Scratchers showing us what they knew and with terrific volunteers who shared the wonder of ( computer programming and computational thinking) Scratch for the day! Good day and thanks for the continued great work, Scratch team !