ScratchEd Weekly Roundup | 04/13/13 - 04/19/13

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
04/1/13 - 04/19/13

• Thanks to everyone who joined us at the April Scratch Educator Meetup last weekend at MIT. Check out reflections, discussion notes, and photos from the event. - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/node/17912

• HacKIDemia, OpenTechSchool and Toywheel are coming together to host their first Kids Hackathon, to take place April 28 in Berlin, Germany. It's also not too late to volunteer as a coach for the event. - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/discussions/events/kids-hackathon-28th-april-berlin-germany

• This week, the Fayette County Public Schools website posted this article describing a pilot program at Wellington Elementary in Lexington, Kentucky where students are using Scratch with the LEGO WeDo Robotics kit. - http://www.fcps.net/news/features/2012-13/wedo-robotics

• Find out what happened at the Tunisian Scratch Competition, as told through a Scratch project. - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/stories/tunisian-competition-scratch

• Barry Island Primary School in South Wales tweeted pictures this week from a collaborative Scratch session where students were making sprites walk and talk as well as run and jump. - https://twitter.com/atbarryisland/status/324148433453735936/photo/1

• Fundación Gabriel Piedrahita Uribe (Eduteka) released a new article this week entitled Identificación, Expresión y Regulación de Emociones con Scratch. - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/identificaci%C3%B3n-expresi%C3%B3n-y-regulaci%C3%B3n-de-emociones-con-scratch

• What are you doing for Scratch Day this year? Are you hosting a Scratch Day event? Looking for a local gathering? Find out more information on the Scratch Day website. - http://day.scratch.mit.edu

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.