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Imagine creating your own video games, animated stories, or interactive art.

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Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy

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for people to make all kinds of creative projects.

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With Scratch, you can make things walk, talk, sing, dance,

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bounce, fly, win, lose, or draw.

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Scratch is used by all different kinds of people all

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over the world to make all different kinds of projects.

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"I love drawing stuff. I especially liked drawing this

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picture because it was really fun."

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"In this project, I used the sprite to draw a pattern."

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"I started making these stories up. I don't know

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where they come from, I guess my imagination."

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"My first project was a remix of one of the sample

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projects that come with Scratch. I just love the

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creativity of Scratch. There are endless possibilities.

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It's not like you can just make this project, or this project

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and that's all you can make."

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"But Scratch isn't just a tool. It's also a community."

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"You get to see other people's projects and learn from

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them; and get ideas from them."

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"I like to compose my own music in Scratch and draw my own characters."

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"I love math, and I like making other people interested

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in it too."

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Getting started is easy. You can download Scratch for

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free and just start exploring. You snap together Scratch

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blocks, just like you would snap together Lego bricks.

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Let's make the cat dance back-and-forth to a beat.

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[drum beat] If I want to make the cat dance back-and-

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forth more than one time, I can wrap a repeat block around

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it. [drum beats several times] Now let's make it

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interactive. I'll place this block on top, and now

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when I click on the cat sprite, check out what happens.

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[drum beats several times] You can even try different

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things out while the project is still running and experiment

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with different scripts. "It's a program that lets you

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explore your imagination. You can do whatever you want

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in it. You can design anything." "Using Scratch, I definitely

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learned programming. But I also learned how to collaborate

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with other people." "This project has voices in it.

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I had my friends record their voices, and then I used it

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in my project." "It's like you can do whatever you want,

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really. You can be as creative as you want to be."

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I can't wait to see what you create with Scratch.

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What will you imagine? What will you program?

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And what will you share?