Scratch
MIT's block-based platform where millions of school students publish games and animations, and remix each other's. The lowest-friction first project there is.
- Computer Science
- Arts & Design
- Who can enter
- All ages. Free; run by MIT, and the usual starting point for anyone under about 14
- What it costs
- Entirely free and non-commercial, run by the MIT Media Lab. No paid tier and no adverts.
- When it closes
- We could not confirm this year's date against the organiser's own page, so we are not showing a countdown for it. Last published: Open all year: make something and share it, free.
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