SCRATCH FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
The Scratch Foundation expands opportunities for children around the world to express themselves creatively with code. With Scratch and ScratchJr software, children stack coding blocks to create their own animations, games, and digital stories–and share their creations with one another. In the process, children not only learn technical and computational skills. They also learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively–essential skills for everyone in today’s world.
About This Cause
Scratch pioneered block-based coding. Designed in 2007 by Prof. Mitchel Resnick and his Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, Scratch is based on decades of educational research. To ensure its sustainability, in October 2019, Scratch was moved out of MIT and into the newly established Scratch Foundation, an independent non-profit organization. The Foundation’s mission is to provide young people and educators and parents in their lives with digital tools and opportunities to imagine, create, share, and learn. Scratch software is deliberately designed to allow children with no previous coding experience to write programs through playful tinkering and experimentation. Creating Scratch projects fosters the development of critical computational and creative thinking skills. Kids identify problems, break them into smaller parts, debug them, and iterate on solutions. They also learn about collaboration, reflection, and constructive feedback. These cognitive and psychosocial skills are important beyond coding, giving children tools to serve them well in the ever-changing landscape of life in the 21st Century. Our Future Since Scratch’s launch in 2007, more than 100 million young people from every country have created a billion projects. Scratch online use is growing an average of 13% annually. By Scratch’s 20th anniversary, in 2027, the next 100 million children will have become members of this creative learning movement. We are poised to see 15 years of growth in just 4 years! Serving the next 100 million young people requires that we modernize our platform so that it can grow in cost-effective and efficient ways and meet the privacy and safety needs of our global community. Doing this will enable us to continue to lead in the creative learning space, develop novel approaches to the use of AI, redefine the ways in which social media communities can support rich collaborations among young people, and build a global youth program where experienced Scratchers can mentor novice users. Creative learning and creative coding are critical if we are to prepare children for the challenges of tomorrow. In the words of Scratch’s founder, Prof. Mitchel Resnick, “With the proliferation of artificial intelligence technologies it will be more important than ever for young people to develop the most human of their abilities, the abilities to think creatively, to engage empathetically, to work collaboratively, so that they can deal creatively, thoughtfully, and collectively with the challenges of a complex, fast-changing world.” To support this next chapter, the Scratch Foundation recently engaged an experienced executive, Dr. Margaret Honey, as its new President and CEO. Dr. Honey, who led the New York Hall of Science for the past 15 years, is widely recognized for her work using digital technologies to support children’s learning. With her guidance and expertise, Scratch is launching a campaign to raise $25 million dollars to modernize its groundbreaking platform in order to provide creative coding opportunities to the next 100,000,000 kids. Thank you for your interest in Scratch! Your support helps this community thrive and remain free for all kids.