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.

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

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.

Scratch! — a software developed for children and teens — teaches them how to use computer coding to create animated and interactive projects. Each year, thousands of educators and children worldwide ...