Event Studios
During a Scratch Event, we invite you to imagine, create, and share along with us in the Scratch
online community by participating in our featured studio.
Scratch Events are announced in the “Scratch
News” section of the homepage. And, when an
event is running, you can visit the “FeaturedStudios” section of the Scratch homepage toquickly access the event studio.
In this guide, we are going to share:●

how you can participate in a Scratch
Event●

how to get started on a project●

how to add your project to a Scratch
Event studio●information about curating●

special information for educators

How Can I Participate?
●Scratch Event studios are open to all, and everyone is welcome to create a project as away of participating in the studio. You are invited to create and share projects that fit thestudio theme. Simply comment in the studio with your project link so our curators canreview.

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See what others around the world have created and shared to the studio, as well as
offer encouragement and constructive feedback.

●Do you speak and write in more than one language? We welcome Scratcher volunteers,
who can, to translate the studio description into their own language to help others.
Look in the main studio description for a link to our translation studio for the event, if you
are interested.

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Getting Started
If you don’t have a Scratch account yet and you want to participate in the event online, you cansign up for a free account on our website. To learn more information on accounts, you can see ourFAQ page (https://scratch.mit.edu/faq#accounts). Without an account, you can still play otherpeople’s projects, read comments, and even create your own projects. But you need an accountto save and share projects, write comments, and participate in other "social" activities in thecommunity (like "loving" other people’s projects).
If you are new to Scratch and just getting started, we have a guide for that! Check out our Getting
Started Guide (http://bit.ly/Scratch-Getting-Started-Guide) for more information. In addition, theScratch Ideas page (https://scratch.mit.edu/ideas) is a great place to find tips for getting started,tutorials, Scratch Coding Cards, and more, before jumping into creating your Scratch Eventproject.
Have limited internet access? The downloadable Scratch app (https://scratch.mit.edu/download)
allows users to create and save projects with or without an internet connection. Projects can thenbe uploaded to an online Scratch account later and shared in a Scratch Event studio, if desired.

How Do I Share My Projects/Get My Projects In theStudio?
●In order for your project to appear in a studio, it must first be shared. On any sharedproject, you have the option to turn comments on or off for the project. It can also be
helpful in the “Instructions” section of your project page to share any special notes about
how to interact with a project (click green flag? use keyboard keys? click somewhere?).

●For Scratch Event studios, including translation studios, users must comment with a linkto their shared Scratch project so that event curators can review the project and ensure it
fits our event theme and meets any guidelines (including our Community Guidelines) before
adding it to the studio.

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●Once a curator has reviewed your project, they should indicate in a comment below yours ifthey have added the project or, if not, constructive feedback about why something wasn’tadded. (Please Note: Our curators are volunteers who live in a variety of time zones andaren’t always available to review projects, so we ask Scratchers to be patient and not spam
the comments with repeated requests.)

Can I Be a Curator?
●Curators are Scratchers that have been invited to help in the studio by adding projects,
responding to comments and questions, and being a resource to others participating in thestudio. If Scratchers hope to become curators in a Scratch Event studio, we recommend
being helpful, active, and kind. We also host multiple Scratch Events a year, so if aScratcher isn’t chosen as a curator for a particular event, there are future opportunities.

●In addition to Scratch Event studios, curation opportunities exist in the Scratch DesignStudios (SDS) and as part of the Front Page Curator (FPC) program. You can learn more
about these programs in the “SDS Updates” studiohttps://scratch.mit.edu/studios/5257203 or the “Front Page Curator Applications” studiohttps://scratch.mit.edu/studios/386359.

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And, of course, everyone is welcome to create a project as a way of participating in theScratch Event studio.

Educators●

Check out our Teacher Account Guide (http://bit.ly/Your-Teacher-Account) for more
information on setting up teacher accounts and managing classes.

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See our Show-and-Tell Sharing Sheet here for possible use with your students:
https://resources.scratch.mit.edu/www/events/en/Scratch_Show-and-TellSharingSheet.pdf●See our guide here on “How to Run Your Own Event Studio” for session facilitation tips andmore: https://resources.scratch.mit.edu/www/events/en/ScratchLearningResource_RunYourEventStudio.pdf●

See our guide here on “How to Replicate an Event Studio in an Offline ScratchEnvironment”:
https://resources.scratch.mit.edu/www/events/en/ScratchLearningResource_ReplicateEve
ntStudioOffline.pdf

Tip: If you’d like to translate this guide, click here to make a copy of this Google doc.

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