MIT's Media Lab is gearing up for Scratch Day 2009, to introduce new people to their programming language for kids.

And after they were done, the children shared their results with each other. They were part of a worldwide event called Scratch Day, a door-opener to computer programming.

Ten years ago, a computer programming language called Scratch emerged from the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

These are little pieces of the computer's memory that your program can place pieces of data in.

Prof. Seda Ogrenci-Memik and two student members of Women in Computing (CS majors Haley de Boom and Melissa Perez) participated in an outreach event at Highland Park High School, teaching elementary ...

Ogrenci-Memik & WIC Members Introduce Scratch Programming to High School Students The outreach consists of high school girls in their STEM-W club teaching mostly 3rd – 8th grade students how to code.