September 2018 – August 2020
In September 2018 a new project funded by FEMtech (FFG) started. To make Pocket Code more interesting and attractive for our target group of young women between 12 and 15 years old, we will extend the app with the option to program embroidery machines. In this way, self-created patterns and designs can be stitched on t-shirts, pants or even bags. The project will be realized together with “bits4kids” and the Styrian fashion shop “Apflbutzn”.
On 23 October Catrobat will be part of the 2020 CodingDay by Wirtschaftskammer Österreich (WKÖ). Together with different partners we want to help to get more teenagers driven towards MINT-Studies. An awesome event regarding our mission, to get future generations ready for our digital world. Our constructionism based approach and
We are happy to announce that Catrobat team member Vesna Krnjic and her work for the project, especially her research based on Code’n’Stitch was valued by a nomination for the 2020 Hedy Lamarr Award. On October 1st the Hedy Lamarr Award will be granted the third time at the Erste
Together with the App Inventor team at the MIT, the Snap! team at Berkeley, and the Play Learn Foundation India, have submitted a proposal for a 100&Change grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
