Author Archive for Tynker

We’re always on the lookout for new ways to make coding fun and engaging. That’s why Tynker is excited to announce its new high school course Intro to Programming and Art, inspired by Zoë Wood, Professor of Computer Science at the renowned California Polytechnic State University (often referred to as Cal Poly San Luis Obispo). Professor Wood’s original course CSC […]

Meet our newest Featured Maker, 6th grader Yash from New York! He wants to be an astronaut when he grows up, but in the meantime, he likes playing with Legos and drawing with his brother. Yash spoke with us about his experience coding with Tynker: How did you get introduced to Tynker? I was on this website my school gave […]

Hey, sports fans! Did you get inspired watching the Olympics? Did your favorite athlete or team smash a world record? What sports do you like to play? What about watching sports? Do you prefer to watch at home or in person? At Tynker, we know you love making exciting sports-related coding projects and games, so we’re excited to release some […]

While studying bioscience in university, Chantelle Bell, along with classmate Anya Roy, co-founded Syrona Women (later Syrona Health) after developing an innovative home device that lets women test themselves for cervical cancer. Needless to say, we were impressed and wanted to find out more. That’s why we’re so excited to feature Chantelle in Tynker’s Women in STEM series. In an […]

Meet our newest Featured Maker, 5th grader Leo from Washington! He likes to waterski. . . and he also likes to code! Leo spoke with us about his experience coding with Tynker: How did you get introduced to Tynker? I did some in school, so about two years, three years. I did panda clicker tycoon or something like that. I […]

Meet our newest Featured Maker, 5th grader Ivanna from Mexico! She can play the piano, but she also likes to paint, draw, bicycle, act, design clothes (and robots), and play tennis too. Amazing! Ivanna spoke with us about her experience coding with Tynker: How did you get introduced to Tynker? It’s a subject in our school, and we use that […]

Another successful Tynker Summer Code Jam is in the record books, and we’re excited to announce the GRAND PRIZE WINNERS! If you missed the final results as we revealed them live, you can still watch the video on YouTube. 1st Place – Happy Day – $2,000 Happy Day created amazing baseball and sporting projects with an imaginative blend of stories and games […]

In this introductory course, you’ll explore science, sports, politics, climate change, and much more while learning how to interrogate a data set, just like a data pro, and make your own conclusions. Data is everywhere around us, transforming our world. And data analysis brings exciting insights and discoveries to bear in almost every field imaginable. The applications are countless: the […]

Dr. Bryan Sanders is the Director of Technology and a Computer Science Instructor at St. James Episcopal School in Los Angeles. Follow him on Twitter at @nayrbgo. That which was once radical is now mainstream. Case in point, the number of students using computers in classrooms has dramatically increased in the last four decades. Dr. Seymour Papert, widely recognized for […]