“Our broader goal is not just to support Scratch itself, but to spread
the Scratch approach to coding and learning. And that’s why we’re
announcing today a new collaboration with Google, focused on helping
other developers create high-quality coding experiences for kids. As a
first step, we’re working with Google to develop a new generation of
graphical programming blocks, called Scratch Blocks,
which we hope will be adopted widely by developers of children’s
products. The underlying code for Scratch Blocks will be made available
as open source, so that developers can easily integrate the blocks into
apps, games, and toys that they are creating for kids.“