Snuffykin here, checking in from Fort Worth, Texas at the annual conference for the Association of Science and Technology Centers. I'm a "delegate". Sounds very official, doesn't it. :) Today I learned a new programming language called Scratch developed by MIT Media lab. Here's what the website says about it:

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

The software is free for download from http://scratch.mit.edu for Windows and Mac OS.

Anyways... I made this here little game-like animation from scratch. I say game-like because I didn't program it so that it only counts one point when the frog catches a cupcake. It just keeps increasing the points as long as the frog is still touching. I programmed the arrow keys to work up/down, left right. I'd write more but I'm writing from a borrowed laptop and heck, I can't work without a mouse! I'm accidentally zooming and right-clicking all over the place.