BurningPi Scratch Pitch

            Scratch is an educational programming language used by students, teachers, parents, and anyone interested in learning an easy way of programming.   It was created at MIT and is a project of their Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab and is provided free of charge.  As stated on the Scratch site, “Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively – essential skills for life in the 21^st century.”  Scratch is designed especially for ages of 8 to 16, but is used by people of all ages (even myself at age 22!) 

Overall, I think Scratch is an awesome program to make it easy for people to WANT to program.  I believe programming is a special talent and in my opinion, not a very fun activity, but with this interactive program, it sparks much more interest.  Because you can program interactive stories, games, and animations using “sprites” and preexisting “blocks,” it definitely creates a programming environment that is more visual than technical, which is helpful for beginners.

For our class, we had to create a Scratch pitch to promote our specific products.  Mine, the BurningPi Pitch, can be found below.  Turn up your volume, hit the green flag, and check it out.  As always, feel free to leave feedback! To create your own Scratch project visit scratch.mit.edu