- For more information, see Cartoon Network on Wikipedia.
Cartoon Network (CN) is an American cable TV channel owned by media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery. As its name suggests, the channel almost exclusively broadcasts animated series, ranging from action to animated comedy. Cartoon Network targets children aged 6 to 12, while its morning block Cartoonito targets preschool-aged children, and its nighttime/primetime block Adult Swim targets teenagers and young adults aged 13 to 34.
Relationship with Scratch
On several occasions, Cartoon Network has collaborated with Scratch, either through Cartoon Network supplying Scratch with content or vice versa. The majority of these collaborations happened between 2015 and 2016, and were themed around then-new or upcoming Cartoon Network series.
2015
Hour of Code
During the 2015 Hour of Code, Cartoon Network and the Scratch Team created an Hour of Code project featuring the 2015 Cartoon Network TV show We Bare Bears. Scratchers participated by creating a We Bare Bears project and submitting it to the studio. The three main projects involved hide and seek, making a story out of the bears, and basketball.
2016
#Powerpuff Yourself
On April 7th, Scratch Team Member ceebee created a studio with Cartoon Network, serving as a promotion for the 2016 Cartoon Network series The Powerpuff Girls. The studio is called "#Powerpuff Yourself". Scratchers were able to turn themselves into one of the Powerpuffs, using the site powerpuffyourself.com[dead link]. The studio can be found here.
Make It Fly
Another collaboration promoting The Powerpuff Girls offered an activity in which participants could make a sprite fly in the sky, starting in June 2016. The Scratch Team and Cartoon Network provided Powerpuff Girls, a flying Scratch Cat, and Powerpuff Scratch Cat sprites for Scratchers to use in their projects. The official Cartoon Network account and the Scratch Team also curated both studios related to the event, Powerpuff + Scratch Cat and Make it Fly!, and both were very successful. There was a banner at the top of the Home Page advertising the Make it Fly! studio, which caused controversy. Some users found it annoying and asked the Scratch Team to add an option to get rid of it, but the Scratch Team never responded to these suggestions.
The Powerpuff Girls (2016 TV series) coding-themed episodes
As an additional component of their collaboration with Scratch, in 2016, Cartoon Network aired two episodes of The Powerpuff Girls focused on computer science and coding.[1]
