Entry Date:
May 17, 2007

Project Scratch

Principal Investigator Mitchel Resnick

Project Website https://scratch.mit.edu/

Project Start Date July 2010


Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their own interactive stories, games, and animations—and share their creations in an active online community. In the process, they are learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively, while also learning important mathematical and computational ideas. In the past year, more than 20 million people created projects with Scratch.

Scratch is designed, developed, and moderated by the Scratch Foundation, a nonprofit organization.

Scratch promotes computational thinking and problem solving skills; creative teaching and learning; self-expression and collaboration; and equity in computing. Scratch is always free and is available in more than 70 languages.