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How About Some Good News? With everything that’s been happening over the last few weeks, it’s important to find good news where you can. Whether it’s been the incredible response by our health care workers, the kindness of neighbors, or the generosity of those donating time and money to relief efforts, the human spirit is intact and running on all […]

Teaching Remotely with Tynker: Avi Gvili Avi Gvili teaches Python and JavaScript to his middle school students at the Elias Bernstein School in Staten Island, NY, where he’s found that his background as an author has heavily informed his approach to teaching them coding skills. “Computer science is about language, about text, the relationship between the reader and text,” Avi […]

Tynker’s New Music features! Are your kids itching to unleash their inner Beyoncé or tap into the symphonic sounds of Mozart? If so, then they’ll love our new music tools. And did you know that learning to play a musical instrument can improve your kid’s ability to grasp, retain, and excel in other areas of interest? At Tynker, we believe […]

11 Great Tips to Run a Virtual Coding Camp During this time of uncertainty, one of the most valuable things educators can do is provide a sense of normalcy for their students. Therefore, in the event that traditional coding camps won’t be open this summer, virtual ones can still provide kids with much needed fun, creativity, and academic activities. Here […]

Let Your Kids Get Creative At Home with Tynker! Tynker has been happy to do our part in helping kids adjust to being at home all day by making our coding curriculum free. And now we’re starting to see the results. Kids all around the world have been showing us the incredible projects they’ve been coding while schools have been […]

At Tynker, we always recommend kids spend time reading every day, which is why we’re so grateful that our friends from the A Kids Book About series have generously offered to share their latest release with us. Written by scientist Malia Jones in response to Covid-19, the book presents a thoughtful and relevant way for kids to understand what a […]

15 Free Coding Resources from Tynker  Due to Covid-19, people around the world are coming together for the greater good and at Tynker we certainly want to do our part to help. With kids at home for the foreseeable future, it’s important for us as parents and educators to get them in a consistent and structured routine that will keep […]

Women in STEM: Daphne Koller In 1986, at just 18-years-old, Daphne Koller earned her Masters of Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and she was on her way. . . It’s that kind of drive and passion for the sciences that has taken her across the world to California, where she has studied, taught, and worked. Today, we’re super […]

Meet our newest Featured Maker, Travis! A 10-year-old from Pennsylvania, Travis loves to play Fortnite, ride around on his bike and, of course, code on Tynker! Travis’ favorite subject in school is math, partly because his teacher takes what can be a really difficult subject for some, and makes it fun to learn.  These teaching skills that Travis admires are […]