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How Can I Enhance My Kids’ Remote Learning From Home This Fall? With so much uncertainty surrounding the upcoming academic year, parents will once again need to prepare for school closures or, at the very least, a blended distance learning environment requiring remote/online student participation. In addition, after-school activities will most likely be limited or canceled outright. As a result, […]

Our 2020 Summer Code Jam is well under way, and we’re so excited to talk to some of our winners so far to learn more about them, their awesome projects, and their experiences with Tynker! First up is Iva is one of the winners of our Week 1 Challenge (“Create Your Own Avatar!”), our Week 5 Challenge (“Create a Crazy […]

Women in STEM: Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen is known as a technologist — a student, professor, engineer, and entrepreneur, whose latest venture used something as simple as a red laser pointer to build a $100 million startup called Openwater. As you can imagine, there’s so much more to Mary Lou that makes her perfect to be […]

Tynker Makes Coding Easy! Tynker’s powerful creativity tools will bring your kid’s imagination to life. Whether they’re interested in animation, character creation, physics, or game development, there’s a built-in tool for that in Tynker! With virtual learning likely to continue in the fall, we’re excited to bring you all our Tynker Toolbox articles, a new series of coding blogs designed […]

Meet Gabby, our newest Featured Maker and a budding young programmer from Texas. Gabby showcases her creativity in a lot of different ways — in addition to her passion for creating coding projects with Tynker, she loves to tell stories and draw people she knows. In fact, Gabby says she can pretty much draw anything!  Like every great creative, Gabby […]

Coding in the News: July 2020 The technological revolution is alive and kicking with a seemingly endless stream of announcements of awe-inspiring innovation. Yesterday, it was the out-of-this-world new device your neighbor was showing off. Today, it’s the amazing app your kid downloaded to your phone that’s going to change your life. Tomorrow, who knows? What’s happening in the world […]

12 Ways to Keep Your Child’s Mind Sharp This Summer School’s out and many in-person summer camps are closed due to the ongoing pandemic, but that doesn’t mean that learning has to stop! In fact, summer vacation can be one of the best times for kids to learn, as they have more time to really explore their interests and dig […]

Meet Frances, our newest Featured Maker from Canada! She’s a pretty active, creative 5th-grader and when she’s not practicing music (she’s been playing the piano and the ukulele for 5 years, we’re jealous) or playing sports (baseball and soccer are her favorites), she’s also a big fan of coding with Tynker.  Frances sat with us to talk about her experience […]

Learn how to create custom mods for Minecraft with Tynker’s Mod Creator iPad App. Our blog covers everything you need to know to get started. Check it out now!