So Google repurposed Scratch. Looks great. I concur with the remarks stating programming ought to be the new literacy. I am a fledgling programmer (just getting my feet wet with Python and Django) but i installed Scratch on my daughter's computer. She's six so a little too young to really get it but she plays around with it from time to time and sadly at times it seems like she's almost on par with my skills with Python.
This tool is awesome.