Roamer^® is Part of the Scratch Extension Showcase

Around the World, over 7 million students use the Scratch Program to learn coding. Scratch is a free visual programming language developed at MIT. It provides students (Scratchers) aged 8 to 16 with tools to create stories, games and animations, which they can then share with one another. Now the MIT Scratch Team has launched Scratch Extensions (ScratchX). This allows Scratchers to connect with external hardware.  MIT chose the popular educational robot Roamer and Roamer ScratchX as one of the projects to showcase their innovation.  Both products evolved from Logo software and the ideas of Seymour Papert.  Bringing them together is a natural advance, which will help overcome some of the issues schools face when trying to develop coding and computational thinking skills. Continue reading →