 Hey crew have you been wondering what's been happening here at Surfing Scratchers studios over the past couple of months since that infamous event Well stick around because I've got an update to give you a load of thank yous and shout outs to share with you And I also want to give you a bit of a roadmap of what's ahead and what's in store over the next couple of months So stick around and we'll get stuck into it Hello world if you're not too familiar with me I'm the surfing scratcher. I'm a teacher-surfer programmer and I'm gonna say slight entrepreneur these days maybe entrepreneur and I help curious learners just like you along on your learning journeys So this isn't a how-to coding video This is an update video and I just want to share with you what's been happening over the past few weeks Yeah, since some interesting things happened in this this environment Funnily enough there was round two that happens that actually came back But anyway, we're not gonna get into that. It doesn't matter. We are focused on you guys and bringing value to you So first things first. I just want to make a huge shout out to the community out there I'm gonna go through a whole line of thank yous and Mentions in a moment that I just want to say right from when I posted that video Just the comments that were flooding my way with well wishes and yeah people sharing with me both Students users and educators how this content has impacted them and their their groups of learners. It's just it really motivates me to keep making these videos and keep putting out this content and continuing to serve you guys because that's ultimately what I'm Here for I want to bring you some value I want to share with you my learning experiences and and document that and hopefully yeah You guys can apply that to your own learning journeys as well without your support I wouldn't be making this video right now and I wouldn't be making future videos. So, you know, I'm just I can't really express the the gratitude deep enough that that I've kind of experienced over the past few weeks Through your well wishes and specifically I just want to go through and thank each of the the GoFundMe page donations because every contribution has helped immensely to yeah Restock this this camera that I'm coming to you with now and also picking up a new laptop Which are the absolute essentials out which are needed to keep bringing content to to you guys So I just want to give a big shout out to we're just gonna rapid fire But thanks Karen James Frank Karen Bronwyn Louise Sandra Lisa Yana Alistair Nobel Tony Tim and Cara as well as a few anonymous donations that I'm not gonna mention But you know who you are if you are watching this video. So Together you guys have raised over a thousand dollars, which has been absolutely epic and I was not really expecting anything to that tune so Thank you so much for those donations and I hope you're able to to find Downloads to the resources because I made those available on the GoFundMe page And if you haven't and just finding out about that now go suss out that GoFundMe page and check out a download link to every single teacher Resource I've ever made it just there for you to go and download. I just want to give a quick shout out to the three patrons of this channel Yeah, there are three and I love you guys for your continued support of just kind of automating Yeah, your support month-to-month. So I just want to thank Vivian, Maya and Oliver I pronounced your names right, but yeah, I just want to give a shout out to you guys as well For your continued support of this channel It's um, it means it means a lot and every single contribution helps to Continuing to bring it this content to you now I just want to make a few shout outs to people who've supported me along the way Certainly not getting paid for any of this I just want to mention these people because they've thrown well wishes my way And I just want to like make a shout out to them. So the first is Pachronix. They're my go-to for and I want to find some educational Technology equipment hardware that sort of thing here in Melbourne. So love working with with Parthik over there So thank you for your continued support Parthik and out working relationship as well Even though you have not asked me to say any of this, but yeah, thank you Also in the well wishes. I received a message from a foundation over in the Netherlands of all places and funnily enough I've lived in the Netherlands for a little over a year, which is cool and the message of well wishes That came from that direction was really cool because they ended up checking out their website, which is there's a Dutch version It's called Skills dojo.nl or dot nl I know punt is the the word for dot in the Netherlands That's so that's the that's the Dutch version But I was over checking out kids course and if you're an educator out there go check out this website because they've got some resources and different resources and really cute Kind of unplugged style resources as well as some plugged resources that you can go and check out So yeah, you'll be seeing a few of those on your screen right now And yeah, I love these ones that little kids programming paper robots definitely go and check out some of that so thank you for your well wishes are Over there skills dojo and likewise a big shout out to you guys the fans because you've been making some gnarly comments Which I've really appreciated and it's it's really spurred the motivation to continue making content for you guys So, you know just massive like heart symbol from me to you And hey, I want to make a shout out to broody man one because I promised I would make a shout out Okay, let's change gears and I want to share with you what's in store for surfing scratcher going forward So the first thing that I want to share with you is that I've just been accepted into a startup incubator program called the Startup Gibson tech skills incubator for 2021 and what that's gonna be it's a three to four month Intensive where we'll be spending about five to six weekends Doing workshops over building a business essentially and what that means is figuring out what people want what customers want and Trying to bring value to them, which I think is a really important Pathway for people who kind of want to find meaning in their life and are looking for purpose because if you can find out What matters to you and you can overlap that with what other people are sort of looking for And pain points and creating solutions for that and you're just creating win-win situations So yeah, I'm really interested in the entrepreneurial pathway and its application to education So what I'm thinking of doing over the next couple of months are that's gonna be quite a big program I sort of want to document that journey with you guys I want to want to talk with you some of the content keep insights and some of the books that I've been coming across as well Because I just sort of want to do the learning for you give you guys the shortcuts If they're there or even spark your learning journey because I would love to down the track Take a group of learners through this sort of entrepreneurial program as a way to give back or as a way to just yeah Help you guys along on your journeys to the cool thing about this. You might be listening to this and going Oh, I don't know about this But you know if you're a young person making games out there This is all gonna be relevant to you because ultimately if you're interested in making games. Yeah, it's great to make games for yourself It's kind of fun. It's great to explore and experiment with different things But ultimately if you want to become a game developer over in scratch And beyond then you're gonna have to make games for other people and when you make games for other people You've got to tune into what interests them and what they like It doesn't always align like that But I'd encourage you to chat to the people who are gonna be playing the games that you've made or Maybe just people who like playing games and then you can gain some insight into what kind of games you can make for them because Yeah, the more people are playing it the better you're gonna feel as well now I've had cool scratcher mentioned a couple of times about collaborations and I've got an idea that I'm gonna work on in the background throughout this program and That is to take out one of the car games that I enjoy playing and it's called Q and Q is by Ricky Tata and I just had this idea that you know games with all their instructions They're already there's a game that's ready to go It's already sort of been proven and it's got a sequence of rules or instructions So in my mind it was like oh, that's something that we can definitely program in scratch So I'm gonna have a crack at making a prototype of this game in scratch and sharing it with you It's gonna be a multiplayer game. So I think it's sort of two to six players I'm gonna make this maximum for just to put a constraint on it and I'll start with two but I'm gonna take you through a that process of sort of looking at this game and unpacking it The to understand the design process and that's a that's a key programmatic skills like starting with something and working backwards from its Solutions, so I want to document that for you guys because I think that'll be really useful and shout out to Ricky Tata Who is the game creator I reached out to and gave his blessing for us to do that So that is ace if you're not familiar with Q. It's it's a pretty neat game It's really quick goes about 15 minutes and that's an ultimate bluffing game So you think you've got a good line game with your mates then it's not a bad one to put on like I'm a terrible liar So people find me out immediately. So I'm very systematic when I play this game And that's my kind of strategy bit. Anyway, stay tuned with that videos for I probably they won't be dropping for a little work So I still want to make that prototype But we'll see how we go with it and there you have it I'm gonna get this video out to you ASAP and I'm gonna try and do sort of a weekly check-in with some of this startup Gipsel and stuff that I'll be doing over the next few months and hopefully I'll be able to Wrap in or thread in some of that scratch content out with you as well. So I'm gonna leave it there I just want to again lastly express all my appreciation and gratitude for you guys out there And I've also got some ideas around some challenges that I want to throw out to the crew out there specifically you young scratches So stay tuned on that in a future videos until next time. I'm off to go find a wave I'll catch in the next one