I was wondering whether members of your community would be interested in staging a lindy bomb near the steps to the Media Lab entrance on the day of our event.  You would be able to pass out cards to lessons or Boston Swing Central dances, for example.

Okay, what's the catch?  I'm talking early in the morning for lindy hop dancers who stayed up late on Friday night to dance!  Our doors open for check in to our event at 9 am.  Ugh!

We typically get a crush of families at the same time, between 9 and 9:30, and we'd like to offer something for them to see right when they are entering the event to stand in line for awhile!

It would also set the energy level of our event.

Scratch Day celebrates a popular computer programming language for kids, invented by the MIT Media Lab.  The division who invented it is a non-profit and gives the programming language away for free.  The group believes very strongly in open-source coding language for kiddos.  On Scratch Day, there will be more than 160 events around the world!  Scratch is available in 50 languages right now, and that number is growing.

We believe coding is the new literacy.  Just as you would expect kids to learn to read and write, even if they won't grow up to be novelists, we believe all kids should learn coding, to help nurture their computational and creative problem solving skills.  With Scratch, kids develop these skills by making their own computer games, animations, stories, and other projects.

Let me know if members of your community might be interested in a Saturday morning lindy  hop bomb.

Linda Garmon <lgarmon@media.mit.edu>
Communications Manager
Lifelong Kindergarten, Home to Scratch

MIT Media Lab

Scratch Day is Coming!