Scratch Team

Scratch Team, doing business as Scratch, is a high-level, block-based visual programming language and website aimed primarily at children as an educational tool.
==History==
In the early 2000's, the LLK, led by Mitchel Resnick, in partnership with Yasmin Kafai's team at UCLA worked closely with Computer Clubhouses in Boston and Los Angeles to develop Scratch, grounding its design in the practices and social dynamics of these after-school youth centers.https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0325828 It started as a basic programming language, with no labeled categories and no green flag.https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Development_of_Scratch_1.0 Scratch employed concepts of Tactile Programming later known as blocks-based programming. Scratch was made with the intention to teach kids to program.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3651308
Scratch was developed based on ongoing interaction with youth and staff at Computer Clubhouses. The use of Scratch at Computer Clubhouses served as a model for other after-school centers demonstrating how informal learning settings can support the development of technological fluency.https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0325828 
Scratch 2.0 was released on May 9, 2013. The update changed the look of the site and included both an online project editor and an offline editor.https://scratch.mit.edu/download Custom blocks could now be defined within projects, along with several other improvements.https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/10/kids-programming-tool-scratch-now-runs-in-the-browser/ 
Scratch 3.0 was first announced by the Scratch Team in 2016. Several public alpha versions were released between then and January 2018, after which the pre-beta "Preview" versions were released.https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Scratch_3.0 A beta version of Scratch 3.0 was released on August 1, 2018, for use on most browsers; with the notable exception of Internet Explorer.https://medium.com/scratchteam-blog/3-things-to-know-about-scratch-3-0-18ee2f564278https://scratch.mit.edu/info/faq#scratch3 
Scratch 3.0, the first 3.x release version, was released on January 2, 2019.https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Scratch_3.0 
==Channel==
Scratch created the YouTube channel on December 5, 2014, where they started to upload videos involving coding. Scratch's first video was created on December 5, 2014, the same day the channel was created.
==References==
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