ScratchEd Weekly Roundup | 04/12/14 - 04/18/14

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
04/12/14 - 04/18/14

• Join us at the next free Scratch educator meetup at MIT happening on Saturday, May 3. Meet up with us!  - https://2013-2014scratchmeetups.eventbrite.com

• Closer to New York City than Cambridge? Attend the second NYC Scratch educator meetup next Sunday, April 27. Meet other local Scratch educators to learn and share teaching practices. - http://www.meetup.com/CSNYC-Education-Meetup/events/174734512
  

• Scratch Day is less than one month away on May 17! There's still time to organize an event or register to attend a local gathering near you. What will your Scratch Day look like this year? - http://day.scratch.mit.edu

• The Scratch Team is hiring! Know a Software Engineer with Django/Python experience or a Front-End Developer? Let them know about these great job opportunities with Scratch! - http://scratch.mit.edu/jobs

• Check out this beautiful blog post and photos by Nathan Selikoff about his teaching artist residency in Florida using Scratch to support middle school STEAM integration. - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/stories/using-scratch-teaching-artist-residency-florida

• This week, there was a line to present Scratch projects at the Silicon Valley Coder Dojo with proof from Sheena Vaidyanathan. - https://twitter.com/Sheena1010/status/456276848410775552/photo/1

• Thanks to James Tiffin Jr for capturing and sharing this picture of a student adding their own sounds to a Scratch program when "The computer's didn't sound right." That's right! - https://twitter.com/JimTiffinJr/status/453922606538711040/photo/1

Do you have other news from the week that you'd like to share? Please post it as a comment below.