ScratchJr ~ Kickstarting Young Kids Coding!

Excellent to see progress on Kickstarter for the ScratchJr project from the MIT Media Lab and Tufts which enables Coding for Young Kids!

"Coding is the new literacy. With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) learn to program their own interactive stories and games. [...] Children snap together graphical programming blocks to make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. Children can modify characters in the paint editor, add their own voices and sounds, even insert photos of themselves -- then use the programming blocks to make their characters come to life. ScratchJr was inspired by the popular Scratch programming language, used by millions of young people (ages 8 and up) around the world. In creating ScratchJr, we redesigned the interface and programming language to make them developmentally appropriate for younger children."

It Only Takes Ten ~ Educate Lanka's Campaign!

Our MIT Development Ventures alum Manjula Dissanayake (Tufts Fletcher '12) writes about his philanthropic venture Educate Lanka and their It Only Takes Ten initiative...

"...a six-month long fundraising campaign to raise a minimum of $10,000. Volunteer 10 minutes of your day, give $10 out of your pocket, or just tell 10 more people about us!"