Dec 04, 2017

Celebrating 50 years of Kids Coding

Colorful capital G with a white bunny rabbit head in front of it
The Story

About this Doodle

If you know kids having fun with today’s Doodle, encourage them to also try the new CS First activity built on Scratch where they can create your own Google logo! Go here to check out some of the incredible range of things kids are creating with code.  

                               

Coding for Carrots Team 

Engineering

Doodle Lead Engineering: Brian Murray, David Lu

Doodle Engineering Support: Jordan Thompson

Doodle Engineering Manager: Ben McMahan

Google Blockly Engineering: Erik Pasternak, Katelyn Mann, Rachel Fenichel

 

Creative

Creative lead: Gerben Steenks

Artists/Animators: Alyssa Winans, Pedro Vergani

UX Lead: Kevin Burke

Doodle Team Leads: Jessica Yu, Brian Kaas

 

Production

Program Manager: Greg Capuano

Marketing & Partnerships Lead: Perla Campos

User Testing Lead: Beth Foss

Localization Leads: Chiara Vanone, Tai Sevelo

 

 

Internal Partners

CS First Product Manager: Chris Busselle

CS First Program Managers: Matthew Dawson, Brendan Chan

 

External Partners

MIT Scratch: Champika Fernando, Mitch Resnick, Carl Bowman, Tim Mickel, Andrew Sliwinski

Music/Sound Design: Silas Hite

 

Where this Doodle appeared

The Doodle Celebrating 50 years of Kids Coding launched Dec 04, 2017

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