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[[File:Featured Studios.png|thumb|425px|The Featured Studios row.]]
The '''Featured Studios''' section on the [[Front Page]] shows [[studios]] that the [[Scratch Team]] has deemed interesting enough to be featured. Some studios are featured because the Scratch Team wants to inspire the community to make new kinds of [[project]]s.<ref>scmb1. (10/11/2017). "Often when we feature studios, it inspires Scratchers to try to make new types of projects (like spiral art or mouse trails)" [[studios:4132969/comments/#comments-34883818]]</ref>

Before October 2015, only four studios were shown. In October of 2015, the front page was redesigned{{cite post|ceebee|26/10/2015|Today, we are launching the first of many upgrades to the look and feel of the Scratch website.|[[topic:163894]]}} and the number of featured studios at a time was extended to five.

When a new studio is featured, other ones get pushed back and the last one gets removed from the row. However, some studios stay as the first featured studio for a certain amount of time, usually ones made by the Scratch Team. These include studios for [[Scratch Camps|Scratch Camp]].

The Featured Studios section is the second row in the [[Front Page|front page]], below the [[Featured Projects]] row.

== Proposing Studios to be Featured ==
Users can recommend studios to be featured using a [[topic:569708|forum topic]]. As stated in the topic, the Scratch Team is looking for studios that:
* Provide an interesting prompt that inspires Scratchers to be creative and make projects
* Are focused on a specific project type or topic– for example, mouse trail projects or projects about historical fashion.
* Have at least one active manager (two managers is even better), but not tons of managers
* Have fewer than 100 projects
* Have at least 2 projects that serve as good examples of what can go in the studio
* Do not allow everyone to add projects (for safety reasons), but do invite anyone to ask for their project to be added by a curator.
* Do not have an animated gif as their thumbnail (because that slows down the front page)
* Are not an Add Everything studio
* Optional: Description is in multiple languages and/or invites Scratchers to help translate it

== Featured Galleries ==
[[File:Featured Galleries.png|thumb|200px|The Featured Galleries sidebar section before [[2.0]].]]
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In the [[Scratch 1.0]] website, before the release of [[Scratch 2.0|2.0]], there was an analogous list in the sidebar, called "Featured [[Galleries]]". It only showed 3 galleries at a time. When 2.0 was released, galleries were changed to [[studios]].

== Currently Featured Studios ==
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== See Also ==
* [[Featured Projects]]
* [[Projects in Studios I'm Following]]
* [[Studio]]

== External Links ==
* [[topic:569708|"Propose Studios to be Featured" forum topic]]

==References==
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