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Tynker Summer Code Jam is underway! It’s the hottest coding competition of the year, with a whopping $10,000 in weekly and grand prizes! In fact, Week 1’s winners have already been announced and Week 2’s will be announced LIVE on YouTube on Wednesday, July 1st at 2:30 Eastern! We were so impressed with each of the over 4000 submissions we […]

Women in STEM: Bonnie Ross Last year, Bonnie Ross became just the twenty-third person to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences’ Hall of Fame. And, it’s easy to see why! Bonnie is the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft and head of 343 Industries, a division of Xbox Game Studios, the studio that runs the highly successful […]

NEW! 4 Cool Editing Features Added to Tynker Workshop Code Navigator Tynker just made editing code easier than ever. Have you ever written so much code that it goes beyond your computer screen’s window? Well, Tynker Workshop has the solution with its new Code Navigator feature, which provides a miniature view of all your Actor’s code.  The Code Navigator is […]

When it comes to preparing your kids for the future, there are few better ways than having your kids learn to code! Valuable and necessary in today’s digital world, coding for kids helps them develop academically, building perseverance and organization, skills that can translate into a career. From the Tynker blog, here are the top 10 reasons kids of all […]

New Tynker Course! Ada’s Adventure Kids will have a blast this summer learning how to code with our newly remastered Ada’s Adventure! This engaging course takes coders on an incredible journey from a faraway Martian base to Professor Ada’s secret lab on Earth. Kids will have so much fun with Ada, they won’t even notice how much they’re learning! Coding […]

Teaching Remotely with Tynker: Lily Turula Connect P.S. 133Q @MsTurula Queens, New York City, NY She’s a Sphero Lead Educator, a Girls Who Code Decision Maker, and Wonder League Robotics Camp Coach, but Lila Turula’s most important work is what she does every day as a computer science teacher at P.S. 133Q in Queens. With her deep background in teaching […]

TYNKER SUMMER CODE JAM! Summer’s here and so is the hottest coding competition of the year. This time around, our Summer Code Jam features MORE of everything — more fun, more prizes, and more opportunities to win. Just show off your coding skills for the chance to win up to $10,000 in prizes! Want to hear the best part? Anyone […]

Seventh-grader Santiago from Arizona loves STEM and enjoys using 3D printers at his school! In addition to being a lover of science fiction and fantasy, Santiago is also a whiz at Rubik’s cubes! His own personal record time of cube completion? One minute! Santiago has aspirations of making coding a career…. if he doesn’t wind up a NASA scientist that […]

Exercise Your Kids’ Brains This Summer  School’s almost out but that doesn’t mean kids should stop learning. In fact, this is the perfect time for parents to help them avoid the dreaded Summer Slide—the loss of knowledge over summer break. Students, on average, lose up to 30% of their school-year learning over the summer. Fortunately, this doesn’t have to happen! […]