The Scratch Foundation promotes creative coding education by providing free access to the Scratch and ScratchJr platforms, supporting a global community where children can learn to code and express their ideas.

Scratch pioneered block-based coding. Created in 2007 by Professor Mitchel Resnick of MIT and the Lifelong Kindergarten group at MIT’s Media Lab, Scratch is based on decades of educational research. With Scratch, children  create their own interactive stories, games, and animations, and share them with friends, teachers, and the online community. Scratch is the world’s largest free coding platform for kids, reaching 20 million new online users each year.

Astea Solutions collaborates with Scratch on design, architecture and development of a next generation Scratch platform, including new backend systems, improvements to the editor and automated inappropriate image detection, while simultaneously improving the current Scratch experience across the board.