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Play Super Smash Bros with Bananas?!?

Dec 13, 2018 Imagine our surprise when we woke up yesterday morning and saw this amazing post on Engadget about ATwerkinYoshi's banana controller for Nintendo Switch! Image from ATwerkingYoshi Head over to his imgur gallery to see his whole set up and how this banana controller... READ MORE

Beyond Hour of Code Webinar with Brian Aspinall

Dec 11, 2018 We had the honor of hosting a webinar today with the awesome Brian Aspinall, author of Code Breaker, and all around great maker educator. He shared some awesome ideas for using Makey Makey in the classroom. Check out the... READ MORE

Hour of Code Challenge Day 5: Be Playful!

Dec 07, 2018 We hope you've had a great week celebrating Computer Science Education and Hour of Code! Today's challenge is to be playful! Create and code something fun! Day Five Challenge: Code and create something playful! Here are some great new guides... READ MORE

Hour of Code Challenge: Day 4: Code an Instrument

Dec 06, 2018 Happy Computer Science Education Week! We've been having a great week seeing so many teachers introducing students to coding. We thought we'd share one of our favorite challenges today. Everybody loves a good banana piano, but what about coding your... READ MORE

Hour of Code Day 3 and Makey Maze Challenge

Dec 05, 2018 This week is Computer Science Education week and we are celebrating by issuing a daily Hour of Code Challenge. Our 3rd challenge for Hour of Code is to code your own maze in Scratch! Earlier this year, we challenged the... READ MORE

Hour of Code: Day Two Challenge

Dec 04, 2018 We hope you are enjoying Hour of Code this week! Yesterday, we announced a new labz guide for "The Ultimate Stomp Pad." With this guide, we challenged makers to create a one button game in Scratch. We'd love to see the games... READ MORE

Happy #CSEdWeek! Here's our Day One Challenge

Dec 03, 2018 This week is the start of Computer Science Education Week and schools around the country are introducing kids to Computer Science with Hour of Code activities. Last week we shared a few ideas for coding with Scratch and controlling those... READ MORE