Name: Workshop: Write your own Scratch extension
Start: 2023-03-25T09:30:00Z
End: 2023-03-25T10:20:00Z
Location: Jock Colville Hall, Churchill College

Workshop: Write your own Scratch extension

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a registered educational charity (reg. number 1129409). Our mission is to put the power of computing and digital making into the hands of people all over the world. We do this so that more people can harness this power for work, to solve problems that matter to them, and to express themselves creatively.

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Help your students build something in Scratch using blocks that do something unique to your group, club, or school!

Jock Colville Hall, Churchill College

Scratch extensions are written in JavaScript, so anything that can be done in JavaScript can be done by a Scratch block.Any of the million JavaScript modules in <a href="https://www.npmjs.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.npmjs.com</a> could be made available as a Scratch block.Machine Learning for Kids has included custom Scratch extensions since 2017. Some of these Scratch blocks represent machine learning models, while others allow students to get data from external services such as Wikipedia.In this hands-on session, we will show you how you could do the same yourself.You will need: <ul><li>A﻿ Wi-Fi–enabled laptop</li><li>Attendees will work via web browser</li></ul>We will also talk about easy ways for you to host Scratch with your own extension so that your students can easily access it.W﻿hat you can expect to learn:An understanding of how to create custom, bespoke Scratch blocks that are unique to your topic or studentsS﻿ession leader: Dale Lane

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