Scratch Foundation
Sibongile Mapikitla is a well-educated and experienced professional working in the field of education. Currently employed as a Translator at Scratch Foundation, an Online Tutor at teachanywhere, and a Robotics and Coding Facilitator at Gauteng Department of Education. Previously worked as an Education Professional at Gauteng Department of Education and as a Media Studies Lecturer at Jeppe College. Sibongile holds a Bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature from National University of Lesotho, Honours in Creative Coding and Robotics and Virtual And Augmented Reality in Science Education from University of Johannesburg, and a Master of Education - MEd in Advanced Teaching from University of the People.
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Scratch Foundation
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At the Scratch Foundation, our mission is to ensure that Scratch is available for free, for everyone, so that kids around the world can express their ideas through coding. As champions of the Scratch project, we raise funds to support the project and share stories of innovation, collaboration, and learning within the global Scratch community. We focus on Scratch, the block-based programming language and online community developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Scratch makes it easy for young people to create their own interactive media projects -- like games, animations, and simulations -- and then share their creations with others in an active, online community. Scratch is available for free, for everyone. And that's why the Scratch Foundation is so important. Through gifts from individuals, corporations, and foundations, we raise funds to support the entire Scratch ecosystem, including development of new technologies, organization of events, and dissemination of learning resources. We were founded in 2013 as the Code-to-Learn Foundation by Mitchel Resnick, Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab, and David Siegel, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the investment management firm Two Sigma. Mitch and David first met as graduate students in computer science at MIT in the 1980s, and reconnected 25 years later when David's son learned to program with Scratch, developed by Mitch's research group at the MIT Media Lab. In 2015, we changed our name to the Scratch Foundation to reflect our specific focus on Scratch and its dynamic ecosystem of interacting projects (Scratch, ScratchJr, ScratchEd) and events (Scratch Day, Scratch Conference, Scratch Educator Meetups).