Author Archive for Tynker

Announcing the All-New Tynker Workshop! It’s finally here! The team at Tynker has been hard at work for months on a major update for Tynker Workshop to make it more fun and usable for students. And it’s live now! This update improves the speed of Tynker Workshop and addresses many improvements based on the feedback we’ve received from users like […]

Community Highlights: August 24-August 30 We’re excited to see new projects this week and teachers kicking off the school year with Tynker! Read on for your Tynker community highlights! Projects of the Week Seaweed Scramble by SkeetereetYou’re a hungry baby fish in the deep blue sea and you must gather all the seaweed and avoid everything else! Minute Drive by […]

Community Highlights: August 17-August 23 We loved seeing some fantastic projects and tweets this week! Did you miss the list of Code-a-Thon winners? Don’t worry–you can check out some of the top projects on our blog! Wondering how to help kids improve their academic skills this year? Discover how learning to code helps kids succeed in school! Read on for […]

The Best of the 2019 Wild Minecraft Code-a-Thon We hope everyone had a great time with this year’s Wild Minecraft Code-a-Thon, an opportunity for kids to learn about biodiversity while getting creative with code! Kids explored the diverse species on our planet through interactive projects, quizzes, and Minecraft mods and mobs. Over 10k projects were submitted and 80 winners won […]

5 Ways Learning to Code Helps Kids Succeed in School It’s August, which means that many kids are going back to school! Time for them to learn subjects that will help them succeed in life, like writing, math, science, and more. Did you know that learning to code can help your child develop skills that are valuable across all subjects, […]

Community Highlights: August 10-16 For many in our Tynker community, school has started! We hope the school year starts off great and we can’t wait to see what teachers and students will create with code in their classrooms. Read on to see some amazing projects from our users in this week’s highlights! Projects of the Week Basketball by trankimchau Use […]

Genevieve Bell: Humanizing Technology Dr. Genevieve Bell, an Australian-born anthropologist, has been an advocate for user-centered technology design at Intel and currently shapes conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) as the founder and director of the 3A Institute at The Australian National University, where students study critical questions about AI as they earn a master’s degree in cybernetics. In a world […]

Community Highlights: August 3-9 This week we saw so many great projects from our users and exciting tweets! Read on to see what’s happening in your Tynker community. Projects of the Week Bowling by JazzHands Ready, set, bowl! Try and obtain a strike by knocking down all of the water bottles. Panzer Division 1 by Ninja Dude Use the spacebar […]

Announcing Our New Tynker Junior Course: Super Squad! Animatropolis is in trouble! Do you have the coding skills to team up with the Super Squad to restore peace and justice?  In our fifth course for the Tynker Junior app, Super Squad, pre-readers will learn to use conditional statements, loops, and sequencing to retrieve stolen museum treasure while avoiding evil minions. […]