ScratchEd Weekly Roundup | 04/20/13 - 04/26/13

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
04/20/13 - 04/26/13

• Scratch 2.0 will be released on Thursday, May 9! Please note that both the old and new Scratch websites will be closed for 3 days, on May 6, 7, 8 . On May 9, beta.scratch.mit.edu will become scratch.mit.edu. So we’ll see you on scratch.mit.edu on May 9! - http://beta.scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/4130/?page=1#post-23274

• Are you ready for the next generation of Scratch? In preparation, join the ScratchEd Team on Friday, May 3 for an overview webinar of what's new in Scratch 2.0 and what's good to know about the transition. - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/node/18112

• In this new ScratchEd interview story, Jon Bustillo from the University of the Basque Country in Spain shares his experiences using Scratch in prisons. - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/stories/using-scratch-prisons-interview-jon-bustillo-basque-country-university

• CS2N has announced the Scratch winners of the With Great Power Competition. Check out the winning entry about a teenage boy transformed by a meteorite and is then able to save the world from alien invaders! - http://cs2n.org/blog/announcing-winners-for-the-with-great-power-competition

• Dara Monasch, who recenty took part in the edX MOOC course CS50x: Introduction to Computer Science from Harvard, shared her experiences on learning programming programming through Scratch. - http://www.infragistics.com/community/blogs/d-coding/archive/2013/04/25/scratch-the-most-ingenious-and-simple-programming-tool-ever-created.aspx

• Are you planning to share Scratch at a presentation or conference? This Scratch poster and handout by Torbjorn Skauli might be for you! - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/scratch-poster-and-handout-exhibiting-scratch-public-events

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.