"annualReport.mastheadTitle":"Cultivating a World of Creative Learning",
"annualReport.mastheadTitle":"Cultivating a World of Creative Learning",
"annualReport.messageTitle":"Message from the Scratch Team",
"annualReport.messageTitle":"Message from the Scratch Team",
"annualReport.messageP1":"2019 was a year of great progress for Scratch. We started the year with the launch of Scratch 3.0, our newest generation of Scratch, designed to spark children’s creativity and engage a broad diversity of children. We celebrated the end of the year with our team moving from MIT into its new home at the Scratch Foundation, in a playful ground-floor space near South Station in Boston. Throughout the year, the Scratch community continued to thrive and grow: More than 20 million young people created projects with Scratch in 2019, an increase of 48% over the year before.",
"annualReport.messageP1":"2019 was a year of great progress for Scratch. We started the year with the launch of Scratch 3.0, our newest generation of Scratch, designed to spark children’s creativity and engage children with diverse interests and backgrounds. We celebrated the end of the year with our team moving from MIT into its new home at the Scratch Foundation, in a playful first-floor space near South Station in Boston. Throughout the year, the Scratch community continued to thrive and grow: More than 20 million young people created projects with Scratch in 2019, an increase of 48% over the year before.",
"annualReport.messageP2":"During the past few months, the impact and importance of Scratch have been clearer than ever. As the pandemic forced schools to close, the Scratch online community became busier than ever, with twice as much activity as last year. Confined to their homes, young people have come to Scratch to express themselves creatively and connect with one another. Scratchers have also been actively engaged in the growing movements for racial justice and equity, creating animated projects and studios to spread awareness and demand change.",
"annualReport.messageP2":"The impact and importance of Scratch have been highlighted in 2020 as the COVID pandemic forced schools to close. Activity in the Scratch online community more than doubled as young people, confined to their homes, turned to Scratch to express themselves creatively and connect with one another. Scratchers have also been actively engaged in Black Lives Matter and other movements for racial justice and equity, creating animated projects and studios to spread awareness and demand change.",
"annualReport.messageP3":"From the time we launched Scratch in 2007, we have always seen Scratch as more than a programming language. Scratch provides opportunities for young people to develop their voices, express their ideas, and collaborate with one another. It has been heartening to see how Scratchers have responded to recent societal challenges with creativity, collaboration, caring, and kindness.",
"annualReport.messageP3":"From the time we launched Scratch in 2007, we have always seen Scratch as more than a programming language. Scratch provides opportunities for all young people, from all backgrounds, to develop their voices, express their ideas, and collaborate with one another. We love to see the ways that Scratchers have responded to recent societal challenges with creativity, collaboration, caring, and kindness.",
"annualReport.messageP4":"In this Annual Report, we’ll share more about the mission, plans, impact, and reach of Scratch, supported with examples of how Scratch is expanding learning opportunities for a broad diversity of young people around the world, both in schools and throughout their lives.",
"annualReport.messageP4":"In this Annual Report, we’ll share more about the mission, plans, impact, and reach of Scratch, supported with examples of how Scratch is expanding learning opportunities for a broad diversity of young people around the world, both in schools and throughout their lives.",
"annualReport.messageP5":"We’re proud of what young people are creating and learning with Scratch today, and we’re committed to providing more opportunities for more young people in the future.",
"annualReport.messageP5":"We’re proud of what young people are creating and learning with Scratch today, and we’re committed to providing more opportunities for more young people in the future.",
"annualReport.messageSignature":"— The Scratch Team",
"annualReport.messageSignature":"— The Scratch Team",
"annualReport.covidResponseTitle":"Scratch Responds to COVID",
"annualReport.covidResponseTitle":"Scratch Responds to COVID",
"annualReport.covidResponseP1":"As we write this annual report for 2019, we are months into the COVID pandemic. Since the middle of March 2020, the Scratch office has been closed and Scratch Team members have been actively working from home to support children and educators around the world whose lives have been disrupted by the pandemic.",
"annualReport.covidResponseP1":"As we write this annual report, we are months into the COVID pandemic. Since the middle of March 2020, the Scratch office has been closed and Scratch Team members have been actively working from home to support children and educators around the world whose lives have been disrupted by the pandemic.",
"annualReport.covidResponseP2":"On March 17, we launched the #ScratchAtHome initiative to provide children, families, and educators with ideas for engaging in creative learning activities with Scratch at home. We continue to add video tutorials and other resources to the {scratchAtHomeLink}.",
"annualReport.covidResponseP2":"On March 17, we launched the #ScratchAtHome initiative to provide children, families, and educators with ideas for engaging in creative learning activities with Scratch at home. We continue to add video tutorials and other resources to the {scratchAtHomeLink}.",
"annualReport.covidResponseP3":"Activity on the Scratch website has more than doubled from year-earlier levels, as young people come to the {scratchCommunityLink} to engage and connect with one another while isolated at home. Scratchers are creating and sharing projects to support and inspire others through the pandemic—with projects and studios that offer ideas for exercising at home, tips for staying healthy, humor to cheer up one another, and thanks to essential workers.",
"annualReport.covidResponseP3":"Activity in the {scratchCommunityLink} has more than doubled from last year. Scratchers are creating and sharing projects to support and inspire others through the pandemic—with projects and studios that offer ideas for exercising at home, tips for staying healthy, humor to cheer up one another, and thanks to essential workers.",
"annualReport.missionSubtitle":"Our mission is to provide all children, from all backgrounds, with opportunities to imagine, create, and collaborate with new technologies — so they can shape the world of tomorrow.",
"annualReport.missionSubtitle":"Our mission is to provide all children, from all backgrounds, with opportunities to imagine, create, and collaborate with new technologies — so they can shape the world of tomorrow.",
"annualReport.missionP1":"We are committed to prioritizing equity across all aspects of our work, with a particular focus on initiatives and approaches that support children, families, and educators furthest from educational justice.",
"annualReport.missionP1":"We are committed to prioritizing equity across all aspects of our work, with a particular focus on initiatives and approaches that support children, families, and educators furthest from educational justice.",
"annualReport.missionP2":"We’ve developed Scratch as a free, safe, playful learning environment that engages all children in thinking creatively, reasoning systematically, and working collaboratively — essential skills for everyone in today's society. We work with educators and families to support children in exploring, sharing, and learning.",
"annualReport.missionP2":"We’ve developed Scratch as a free, safe, playful learning environment that engages all children in thinking creatively, reasoning systematically, and working collaboratively — essential skills for everyone in today's society. We work with educators and families to support children in exploring, sharing, and learning.",
"annualReport.missionP3":"In developing new technologies, activities, and learning materials, we are guided by what we call the Four P’s of Creative Learning:",
"annualReport.missionP3":"In developing new technologies, activities, and learning materials, we are guided by what we call the {fourPsItalics}:",
"annualReport.fourPs":"Four P’s of Creative Learning",
