Author Archive for Tynker

Community Highlights: September 21-27 We’re so excited to see great user projects and teacher tweets this week! We’re also thrilled to announce that the second Moon2Mars coding challenge, brought to you by Tynker and NASA, is now live! Read on to learn more about the Lunar Gateway challenge for kids of all coding abilities, along with more fantastic Tynker community […]

Evonne Hackett Teaches Coding Twelve Months a Year! CodeMaker Camps empower teachers to keep doing what they love during the summer. Connect @ehlmstech    Lakeview Middle School    Rossville, GA This week, we’re excited to feature Evonne Hackett, a stellar Blue Ribbon educator at Lakeview Middle School in Rossville, Georgia! She’s taught pre-K through college-age students, and over the past 8 […]

Abigail Tells Stories Through Code! Abigail is our newest Featured Maker! She is ten years old and loves to tell stories to her siblings. When she is not coming up with compelling stories, Abigail loves to draw in her sketchbook! She is from Texas and wants to be a coder when she grows up. Math is her favorite subject, and […]

Community Highlights: September 14-20 Check out this week’s top tweets, projects, and blog mentions from your Tynker community! Projects of the Week D Stick Quest by Savage111 Collect all the stars to get to the final boss! Your main goal is to retrieve one of the crystals that have been stolen. Bob 2 by SweetishPython Bob is your friend. You […]

Moon 2 Mars Part II – The Lunar Gateway Coding Challenge Calling all educators, parents, and students: The Tynker team is excited to bring you the second in a series of coding challenges inspired by NASA space missions! In the first challenge, Design a Mission Patch, students imagined that they were about to embark on a journey to the moon […]

Free Coaching: Tynker Office Hours Tynker is excited to offer Open Office Hours as a new support feature this fall! Open Office Hours occur every Tuesday and are open to both educators and education leaders. Read on to learn more and schedule your time! Have a question about using Tynker? Need help with a problem or just want to clarify […]

Paul Rayner Uses Authentic Problems for Authentic Learning “Suddenly the most simple math problems can be really deep learning experiences within Tynker when you have to embed them in code.” Connect @PaulRayner60  E-Learning Blog   Diocese of Rockhampton    Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia Paul Rayner is a Tynker Blue Ribbon Educator and an e-learning consultant for the Diocese of Rockhampton in Queensland, […]

Programming micro:bit with Tynker Blocks With the new Tynker Workshop, you can now build micro:bit programs using Tynker Blocks. Block coding is a great option for anyone who wants to start experimenting with the micro:bit programmable computer. Whether you want to build a robot or design a game, the available library of blocks is a great starting point. Additionally, the […]

Jacko Develops Resilience with Code Jacko is our newest Featured Maker and is in the 6th grade! Coding is a way for Jacko to create anything that comes into his imagination. Along with coding, he plays guitar and has played for about 2 years now. Jacko is from Australia and his favorite subject in school is math–he is really good at it and […]