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Programming League

SPARK Programming League, Sponsored by STAVE

Students from all around San Diego participated in the first annual programming league!  The league kicked off on Saturday, July 11 and concluded with a tournament on Saturday, August 22.  Teams of 2-4 students ages 8 and up created games, demoed them, and coded in a Hackath0n!

Check out the games they created HERE.

SPARK Hosts 2nd Annual “Scratch Out Poverty”

SPARK Hosts 2nd Annual “Scratch Out Poverty”

San Diego, CAServiceNow hosted our 2nd annual “Scratch Out Poverty” charity event where we raised $1,031 benefiting 3 local charities:

To see what the students created, click below:

Space Invaders at ServiceNow

Space Invaders at ServiceNow

San Diego, CA – About 100 people gathered to remember the magic of Space Invaders and recreate it using Scratch and ServiceNow.

Check out some of the projects here.

Scratch Day, 2014

Scratch Day, 2014

San Diego, CA – ServiceNow hosted two Programming for Kids events for about 200 people. The events featured MIT’s cloud based Scratch programming language IDE and ServiceNow’s recently released Visual Task Boards.

Students created Asteroids and a Scratchified version of Flappy Bird.

SPARK in Silicon Valley

SPARK in Silicon Valley

Santa Clara, CA – ServiceNow hosted two Programming for Kids events in Silicon Valley on Saturday, March 29th. Both events filled up quickly and we plan to hold another session in the future.

Please sign up on the Interest List to be notified of our next event.

The students built an Asteroids game in 2 hours – here are some examples of the apps they built!

SPARK Builds ASTEROIDS at UofA

SPARK Builds ASTEROIDS at UofA

Tucson, AZ – On Saturday, October 5th at the University of Arizona with students of all ages building ASTEROIDS games!

Check all of their work here – http://scratch.mit.edu/studios/259883/.

Thanks to our volunteers!

Programming for Kids at ServiceNow

Programming for Kids at ServiceNow

San Diego, CA – Over 110 students of all ages attended the Programming for Kids at ServiceNow event where ASTEROIDS was the inspiration for our project.

Here is a studio collection of their work – http://scratch.mit.edu/studios/243549/

Bonestroids Sharkstroids Asteroids

Fruition Programming Day for Kids

Fruition Programming Day for Kids

Special thanks to Fruition Partners for sponsoring the Fruition Programming Day for Kids at ServiceNow! In just 6 days, the event sold out all 110 seats! We had fantastic volunteers from ServiceNow, Fruition Partners and from various San Diego schools. If you missed this event sign up on the interest list and we will send you information on our next event.