See below, especially "... elective program classes have used Scratch to deliver consulting and programming services for students at another school." and "They made products that are real pieces of software, adapted to the needs of real clients." :)
/Klaus
<quoted from ACM's TechNews> "Coding (and Consulting) Kid-Style With Scratch" T.H.E. Journal (12/07); Schaffhauser, Dian
MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarten research group has developed Scratch, a programming language designed to help kids learn mathematical and computational concepts along with the process of design. A paper about Scratch explains that the language can nurture skills in the areas of information and communication, thinking and problem-solving, and interpersonal and self-direction. The Scratch Web site freely offers the program for download, examples, tutorials, and discussion forums, and approximately 45,000 people have registered on the site thus far. Programming via Scratch allows kids to blend together sounds, music, graphics, and photos by dragging and dropping graphical command blocks onto a Scripts work area. The program begins with a "sprite" character that users can manipulate with command blocks, and starting and stopping scripts involves the user clicking a green flag and a red stop sign button, respectively. Students in Expo Elementary School teacher Karen Randall's elective program classes have used Scratch to deliver consulting and programming services for students at another school. Randall says the language helped her team experience the process of design in a deeper and more meaningful way. "They made products that are real pieces of software, adapted to the needs of real clients," she says.
http://www.thejournal.com/articles/21743
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