ScratchEd Weekly Roundup | 06/29/13 - 07/05/13

The weekly roundup is where the ScratchEd Team shares some of the major -- as well as some of the overlooked -- news, stories, and events related to Scratch that took place throughout the week.

ScratchEd Weekly Roundup
06/29/13 - 07/05/13

• Are you attending the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) 2013 Conference in Quincy, Massachusetts this month? Come early and join us on Saturday, July 13, for a day-long Creative Computing Symposium at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to learn more about creative computing and Scratch. - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/discussions/events/creative-computing-symposium-july-13-harvard

• It's the final week of the ScratchEd Team's Creative Computing Online Workshop, but all the activities and resources will remain available online after the workshop. Find out more online. - https://creative-computing.appspot.com

• The Scratch Team at the MIT Media Lab is looking for a web developer to help implement educator accounts on the Scratch website. Please support their search by spreading the news to your networks. - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OBF7C9DIW3a6LrPZEmmMh9UhK_wh7DelKe4bD7L_dLU/edit

• Join educators, developers, researchers, and Scratchers from all over the world at the first European Scratch Conference this summer. The event will take place July 25-27 in Barcelona, Spain and the theme is "Scratch Connecting Worlds". - http://scratch2013bcn.org

• Over fifty children from the Royston and Carntyne Primary Schools in Scotland participated in the Mini Game Jam organized by Amanda Wilson at the University of the West of Scotland. Try out all the Scratch game projects collaboratively conceived and developed during the event and special congratulations to the winners who created the Nector Collector. - http://amandawilson.typepad.com/blog/2013/07/mini-game-jam-and-the-winners-are-1.html

• In this new ScratchEd feature story, Christopher Michaud from Dallas, Georgia, shares how he used Scratch across the curriculum, integrating technology in his Art and Math classes. Check it out! - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/stories/scratch-art-and-music-class-interview-christopher-michaud-paulding-county-public-schools

These are just a few things that we found. Do you have news from the week that you'd like to share? Please post it as a comment below.