You can also join me May 20th for “Behind the Curtain: Scratch’s Latest Features & Vision for the Future” to hear about our new features and upcoming projects, straight from the Scratch Team! events.ringcentral.com/events/behind-the-curtain-bb058955-11da-4539-9cdd-e841f82113a4
Excited & honored to be back as co-emcee of #ScratchConference 2025, sharing the stage with Nisa, a Scratch Youth Advisory Board member, & amazing speakers. Free! Virtual! Full of ideas, inspiration, & joy! See you July 24th. events.ringcentral.com/events/scratch-conference-2025/registration
Scratch Foundation doesn’t really have a presence here yet, and I have admittedly been reading more than posting here so far, but… For any connections who have found me here due to my coding and education work, I wanted to share that free registration for Scratch Conference 2025 has now opened!
And third, on Tuesday, 1/28, join me for a free Scratch in Practice (SiP) chat exploring creativity with Tinkercad and Scratch: events.ringcentral.com/events/creat...
Next up, on Monday, 1/27, look for the release of my latest tutorial video for the ScratchTeam YouTube channel where we dive into the first of a series of advanced topic videos and talk about creating gravity in Scratch:
www.youtube.com/c/ScratchTeam
Putting on my professional hat, lots of me presenting this week. First up, I'll be sharing and playtesting a new sound and music lesson plan and coding card set that I have worked up in a virtual Québec ScratchEd Meetup happening this Friday, 1/24: www.meetup.com/scratched-qu...
Feel like I visit here, doomscroll, find I’ve been added to a random trolling list by bot/fake accounts, & feel anxious doomscrolling more. All this to stay still not super active here but also not loving ownership of other platforms & hoping to find community. Makes for good discussion w/my teens.
In the meantime, educators and Scratchers, I hope you can join me next Tuesday as I host the Scratch Foundation’s live #HourofCode 2024 Create-Along with our special guest, Gitanjali Rao, on the official ScratchTeam YouTube channel on Dec 10th, from 1-2 PM ET! Resources and more at this link.
Unfortunately, someone has squatted on the ScratchTeam handle we use on other platforms here on Bsky and is posting garbage. I’ve reported the impersonation and hope it is removed soon (maybe if others report?). I know our Comms team is working on getting set up here officially.
Intro: 👋 I’m Maren, Learning Resource Designer at the Scratch Foundation, web developer, & former managing editor at Random House. Passionate about creative learning, iterating, inclusivity, & community. Lifelong learner, who appreciates choice, reading, Oxford commas, & time to hyper-focus on LEGO.
Just gutted & deactivated my Twitter. Among many things, couldn’t support E, didn’t like the new T.O.S., & didn’t want to have my photos & data train bigoted AI or merged with bigoted platforms. Stayed as long as I did for posts from smart folks I’m starting to re-find here. Cheers to mental health.
Slowly moving over here from Twitter (can't call it X) and finding those I've been following. 👋 I'm "codifiedconcepts" or "codifiedconcept" on most social.