Next, you'll take those skills and create a simple animation to understand how Scratch can make simple tasks easier and be incorporated into other projects.

There are all sorts of sounds you could add to your Scratch project. Give your project that extra oomph by adding sounds.

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That doesn't surprise Karen Brennan, a Scratch project leader at MIT's Media Lab, where Scratch was developed. "Our agenda isn't to create armies of programmers," Brennan says.