ScratchEd Weekly Roundup | 12/29/12 - 01/04/13

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
12/29/12 - 01/04/13

• Happy New Year -- it's to the first roundup of 2013!

• Join us for the first Scratch educator meetup of the year, this Saturday, January 12. ScratchEd meetups are free monthly events, held every second Saturday of the month, from 10am-1pm at MIT. Come meet other Scratch educators, share ideas, and learn more about Scratch. - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/node/15688

• The Scratch 2013 Conference has been announced to take place in Europe by Joek van Montfort, who has been leading the organization of the event. The conference will be held July 25-27 at Citilab in Barcelona, Spain with the theme: "Scratch, Connecting Worlds". - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/discussions/news-and-announcements/scratch-conference-2013-amsterdam

• The U.S. National STEM Video Game Challenge for middle and high school students is now accepting submissions. More information about how to submit Scratch projects is available online. - http://www.stemchallenge.org

• Read what some young webmakers thought of the Scratch Team's sessions at the Mozilla Festival, which took place last November in London. Here are blog excerpts from these DigitalMe reporters. - http://www.agent4change.net/events/event/1902-mozfest-what-the-young-webmakers-thought.html

• Frank Sabate uploaded this video of a digital storytelling Scratch project created by teachers at a recent workshop and made interactive using the LEGO WeDo Robotics Kit. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EhfoXYYcVM&feature=youtu.be

• Check out this photo from UrbaLab Gandia of children in Valencia, Spain sharing their Scratch game projects with their parents. - https://twitter.com/UrbalabGandia/status/287276681583017984/photo/1

• Dorsaf Benna just announced this week that the first Scratch competition in Tunisia will be held in April 2013! - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/first-competition-scratch-stunisia

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.