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Your Name and Title: Sandra Thaxter Director of Education Programs Small Solutions

School or Organization Name: Small Solutions Big Ideas

Co-Presenter Name(s):Bonaventure Masika

Area of the World from Which You Will Present: US and Kenya

Language in Which You Will Present: English

Target Audience(s): Teachers and Students

Short Session Description (one line): How to be part of a world wide imagining of the future using Scratch to create your vision.

Full Session Description (as long as you would like):

2017Curricular

Program: Re-Imagining the Future

A Scratch Based Initiative

Presenter: Sandra Thaxter

International STEM Educator

Small Solutions Big Ideas /Connect Kids

http://smallsolutionsbigideas.org

Why This Initiative? We are a Global Community. What happens on any continent, in any country has reverberations around the world. We are all connected by our technology and by the shared environment of the planet.

Youth of the world are facing a future we don't yet understand as we hurtle forward with new ideas about life here together.

Why did we chose Scratch? It is a programming language and world wide movement is already connecting youth around the world.

How can your school, your local community group, your church youth group contribute to envisioning and asking some questions about our future in the rich platform provided by Scratch.

What to do: Join and Contribute to This Initiative

• Join the Scratch community: http://scratch.mit.edu

• Follow the 'Africa Re-Imagining the Future Studio.”

• Create a story of the future in Scratch. Make new sprites that represent your ideas, your picture of the future.

• Upload it to the studio.

• Make comments and meet the other Kenyans and Ugandans who have posted their projects.

Contact us at sandra@smallsolutionsbigideas.org or Connect Kids Facebook page.

Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session:

Re-Imagining the Future Scratch Initiative.docx