Author Archive for Tynker

Meet our newest Featured Maker, 13-year-old Erik from the Keystone State, Pennsylvania! Erik likes to scooter and bike on the playground but the fun doesn’t stop once he goes indoors because he also likes to code! Erik recently walked us through his favorite projects so we could learn more about his experience coding with Tynker. How did you get introduced […]

Create Code Poetry for World Poetry Day March 21 is World Poetry Day, and we wanted to celebrate the occasion by giving kids a chance to combine poetry and coding – two forms of creative expression that actually have a lot in common. For World Poetry Day, kids can write a short poem, then bring that poem to life with […]

Celebrate and Create – with Leprechauns! What’s better than playing games? Making them! With Tynker’s powerful creativity tools, kids can make games that are as fun as the ones they love to play. Kids learn beginner to advanced programming concepts as they create side-scrollers, platformers, arcade and 2-player games, and so much more. Show your young coders a cool example […]

Pi Day is celebrated around the world on March 14th. Through the ages people have been fascinated by this mathematical constant, because it is an irrational number, and there is no way to calculate it exactly using a calculator or a computer. It is a never-ending sequence after the decimal point. How many digits of Pi do you know? Take the […]

A Fun Project for Pi Day March 14 is recognized internationally as Pi Day, a day to celebrate the mathematical constant Pi, as well as to eat pie. While eating your pie, take a look at this Tynker project that demonstrates the relationship between a circle’s circumference and diameter: View the Code With Tynker, kids can make projects like this […]

Use Code to Bake a Perfect “Pi” this Pi Day! Do you know why March 14 is known as Pi Day? If you paid attention in math class, you do! Since the first few digits of the mathematical constant pi (π) are 3.14, we celebrate math (and pie) on 3/14. This Pi Day, you can celebrate by baking and frosting […]

New Minecraft Course! AGENT RECALL Tynker is excited to announce the launch of our new Minecraft course, Agent Recall: A Virtual Escape Room. Why are we so excited? Well, our talented developers have never created anything quite like this! We listened to our coders who love Minecraft and pledged to take the fun up a notch, or ten, while still […]

A Fun Coding Project for St. Patrick’s Day! Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by coding a fun game for the occasion! Students can build “Clover Chaser,” a simple game where rotating clovers appear wherever you click and the leprechaun will go collect them. This project comes with step-by-step instructions that teach students how to create this game and how to customize it […]

Three Fun Coding Projects for Pi Day March 14th is Pi Day! It’s a time for eating pie and celebrating an infinite decimal number. But why should we care about this number, and why do we use it as an excuse to consume extra sugar? “Pi” is what we call the mathematical symbol π which represents 3.14, the approximate ratio […]