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Looking for a method of introducing coding to your little ones?  This is the perfect book for a 6-10 year-old interested in coding and logic. It also provides starter projects that vary in complexity.  Amazon The first time your child logs into Scratch, a parent must authorize the login and help setup the user ID and password. Choose a fun username that maintains your child's anonymity. This way, your little coder can share her work with the world and interact with the Scratch community. Have fun!

Science Quest Summer Camp at the Capitol Park Museum About the class:   Introduce students to computer science and programming using Scratch. Developed by MIT Media Lab, Scratch is a free, easy-to-use programming tool to create stories, games, art, music, and animations. Students simply imagine, program, and share. Scratch projects are a great way to address 21st century information and technology skills while promoting creativity, problem-solving, reasoning, and collaboration. This popular and practical tool has applications across grade levels and content areas.  Some of the objectives covered:    Understand the difficulty of translating real problems into programs. Realize the need for formal programming structures like loops and functions Introduce Scratch resources and examples Hands-on: Explore and evaluate Scratch examples Introduce Structure and Logic of Scratch Hands-on: Create a basic project in Scratch In