ScratchEd Weekly Roundup | 09/14/13 - 09/20/13

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
09/14/13 - 09/20/13 

• The ScratchEd Team will be hosting monthly Scratch educator meetups again this academic year starting October 5. Join us every first Saturday at MIT Media Lab to network, share, and learn with and from other local Boston educators. Meetups are free, include lunch, and can count towards PDP points. - https://2013-2014scratchmeetups.eventbrite.com

• Now you can follow Scratch discussion forums! Find out more about the new "Follow" button in the latest Scratch news update. - http://scratch.mit.edu/news#61523130760

• This week, Lisa Palmieri hosted her first CS seminar for girls at the CoLaboratory at The Ellis School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  - https://twitter.com/Learn21Tech/status/379742564007825408/photo/1

• Animation14 - the 7th Annual UK Schools Computer Animation Competition is now open for teacher registration. Animation14 is a free-to-enter, not-for-profit competition run by The University of Manchester, designed to enthuse young people about Computer Science. - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/node/22581

• In Palo Alto, California, Smita Kolhatkar's second graders are designing tennis-playing sprites in Scratch. - https://twitter.com/skolhatkar/status/380087711178043392/photo/1

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.