Scratch Day was celebrated with diverse activities to encourage students in programming, math and robotics. Scratch Day Celebration 2023 was held yesterday at Green City Center in Dhanmondi of the capital. The day was celebrated jointly by Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN), JaduPC (MagicPC) and Scratch Bangladesh.
In this event, all those who participated in the Scratch Programming apart from playing scratch games with a few magic PCs, there were also some robot demonstrations as well as robot races. The JRC Board also watched as everyone participated in the RobRace. Apart from this, everyone participated in some interesting games and puzzles related to mathematics. Nusrat Binte Alam, a student of Kamrunnesa Government Girls High School, Dhanmondi, said she enjoyed playing the scratch game very much. Magic PC makes this excellent for scratch programming. JaduPC is mainly working to improve the programming skills of Bangladeshi students.
At this time, besides the scratch experience zone, the soccer robot was displayed at the Robot Olympiad stall and children were given the opportunity to experience it. Also, the children and parents present were informed in detail about the various robotics learning activities. Children in attendance participated in robot races as they watched the robots. Besides, the children were given the opportunity to see a development board made in Bangladesh in the abbreviation of late Jamilur Reza Chowdhury’s name. This JRC board is working to advance the future generation towards more advanced technology by helping to develop all types of robotics projects. The children also ran the robot made by Bangladeshi using this board.
In addition, how to solve a pyramid puzzle with numbers or learn math with a Rubik’s cube – some other fun math games and puzzles were shown to the students present. Scratch Day was celebrated by organizing some fun activities with the young students throughout the afternoon. The event ended with the spontaneous participation of the children and parents present.
Based on this day, BdOSN, JaduPC and Scratch Bangladesh jointly organized this Scratch Day Celebration 2023. Collaborators were Bangladesh Robot Olympiad, Banglar Math, JRC Board, Bangladesh Science Popularization Society, Bangladesh Math Olympiad, World Robot Olympiad-Bangladesh and MASLAB.
It is to be noted that, Scratch Day is a globally celebrated day where kids learn programming from Scratch online using free creative coding platforms. And in the last year alone, more than 200 million children have been exposed to programming through Scratch.