Maker Space at Macul

One day we went to COBO Hall for a huge expo about technology. It was called MACUL. We were there to talk about Scratch and Tinkercad. 3,000 to 4,000 people came to see what we do in our 3rd grade class. Tons of technology experts came to learn how to use Scratch and Tinkercad. We used the awesome chromebooks we have in our class.

Madden showed a 2nd grade teacher how to make an insect on Tinkercad. Eliana showed a lot of people her video on Scratch. Brandon showed his video game to some people and they all loved his game. Zoe showed people how to use Tinkercad. We had so much fun and we had such a great. We want to go there and present again and again!

By Madden & Eliana

Scratch Pad Project

We love to do coding! In scratch we have been working on games. We have scratch pad to learn some moves for the sprite to do before we get to our final project of creating our own video game. Two of the moves is talking with a sprite and changing the color of the sprite.

In scratch you can do many things. You can also make the sprite spin in a bunch of circles. You can change the background and the sprite. We all love scratch! We love it because it is really fun! You can make it do almost anything you want and you can even make it sing opera! So that is why scratch ROCKS!!!

By Hannah and Masah

Stranger Danger Video Games

Created by Nick using Scratch, as a part of his groups Exhibition Project on Stranger Danger.

Single Player Version




Two Player Version

Starting with Scratch!

We were first introduced to coding (also called programming) back in December during Hour of Code.  We really had fun experimenting with the different activities during Hour of Code.  A few months later, we got to meet some kids from BHMS that are on the robotics team, and are really good with programming using Scratch.

Ms. Diem asked them if they would come and teach us Scratch and how to use a MaKeyMaKey to program games and stuff and they said yes!  Every Wednesday for the last half hour of the day, we check out some laptops to use for Scratch.  Ms. Diem also got one MaKey MaKey for us.  We've had a few lessons on Scratch already.

Some of us created Scratch accounts at home and have created games and other programs.  We've even learned how to turn the computer keyboard into a piano, or a band!  Coding is not simple to do, but the more we do it, the better we get!