autism month planning forum

Rey_venclaw

Hello everyone!

Welcome to the planning forum for the Autism Awareness/Acceptance month studio for 2025!

The team:
Rey_venclaw — Soki — she/they - roles tbd
-Squiggle — Squi — she/they - roles tbd
Polarbear_17 — Zai(ne) — he/him - roles tbd
IvyCreations — Jas(per) — she/her - roles tbd
PinksMonkey — Pinks — they/he/she - roles tbd

tasks:
(i’ll fill this out more once everyone is here)

Last edited by Rey_venclaw (Today 00:49:54)

-Squiggle

heylo

IvyCreations

ahoy <3

PinksMonkey

Hello!

Rey_venclaw

okay so i think everybody’s seen this now so it’s time to discuss the setup and layout of the studio!

what are your thoughts on…

having a theme (if so, what?)

what the thumbnail should look like

what should be included in the description

the curator form

… ?

-Squiggle

ok yeah so we were thinking about themes, last year we decided to have a theme for that year which was “autism and identity”, so I'm wondering what theme we could do this year if any?
Soki suggested a focus on accommodations which I think is a cool idea

there's also the rest of these themes that we voted on from last year (link to post) -

the autism spectrum and diversity within it
celebrating differences / differences are beautiful 2.5
environments where we thrive 1.5
knowledge is power 0.5
autism and identity 3
autism and imagination 1
autistic love / autistic joy 0.5
sharing moments/autistic joy with others
autism is lifelong (autistic children become autistic adults)
autistic rights 1

anyone else have any other particular theme ideas or preferences?

edit: oh also these https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/discuss/post/7846910/

Last edited by -Squiggle (Today 04:33:38)

-Squiggle

Rey_venclaw wrote:
okay so i think everybody’s seen this now so it’s time to discuss the setup and layout of the studio!

what are your thoughts on…

having a theme (if so, what?)

personally I like the sound of either autistic accommodations, celebrating differences/differences are beautiful, environments where we thrive, or autistic love/autistic joy
but I would also be open to any other new ideas (though I haven't thought of any myself yet)

what the thumbnail should look like

I'm happy with basically anything, if the colours red and gold are included and probably use of the gold infinity symbol.
I'm assuming the title of the studio would be “Autism Awareness / Acceptance Month 2025”?

what should be included in the description

not sure yet honestly. we'll likely need an introduction/conclusion, an explanation of what autism is and what autism acceptance month is/why to take part, something about the theme if we have a theme, some rules, a curator form, and credits
and for featured studio requirements, we need these:

- Provides an interesting prompt that inspires Scratchers to be creative and make projects
- Is focused on a specific project type or topic
- Has at least one active manager, but not tons of managers
- Has fewer than 100 projects
- Has at least 2 projects that serve as good examples of what can go in the studio
- Invites anyone to ask for their project to be added by a curator.

(link to post) and including/inviting translations is also helpful

the curator form

… ?

not sure again but I remember that last year we included a survey/question/thing as part of the curator form, although I'm not sure if we really did anything with people's responses from it (and not a lot of people joined because the studio didn't get featured or anything)
but that was kind of interesting

PinksMonkey

I think doing the theme accommodations could be good.

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