At Mouse we work to connect thousands of young innovators to authentic tools and environments as they build their technical skills and develop purposeful ideas through the creative computing and CS projects on our learning platform, Mouse Create.
For the past year, we have playtested Glitch at our Mouse Makerspace events coding random generators, JavaScript chatbots and choose-your-own adventure sites with our students. We’ve built interactive tools for our game design course including a DIY Space Invaders game. Our staff have geeked out with APIs to create an app that play albums on Spotify when you take a photo of the record cover and an app to add food emoji to a shared digital refrigerator. We’ve seen youth present projects they designed with Glitch at our annual city-wide Emoti-Con event.
What we’ve learned is that Glitch is the kind of creative, low-barrier-to-entry and collaborative development environment that inspires digital innovators of all ages and experience levels to experiment and share.
- Go play: www.glitch.com
- Educators: Join Mouse Create to access coding projects (and more) that incorporate Glitch.
Meredith Summs
Director of Youth Engagement, Learning Design
Mouse
