Author Archive for Tynker

Xavier Explores Programming Languages! Featured Maker Xavier is 11 years old and lives in Washington, USA! When he’s not in school, Xavier likes to draw, code, and participate in theater arts. He’s made movies with his friends, like a documentary about the American Revolution in which he played a foot soldier! His favorite subjects in school are math and art, […]

Sharmila Bhattacharya: Powering Human Spaceflight with Bioscience! “‘You can be absolutely anything you want to be. You can be President of the country if that’s what you want to be.’ I realize how important it was for me to hear those words as an impressionable young child. It made me believe that if I worked hard, I could achieve my goals, whatever they may be.” […]

NASA and Tynker Mission Patch Design Challenge: The Expert Sessions Read our previous blog post to learn more about the five winners of the Design a Mission Patch Challenge! This week, the five winners of the Forward to the Moon Mission Patch Design Challenge and their classrooms spoke with experts from NASA! Each session was full of excellent questions from […]

Community Highlights: May 25 – May 31 There’s so much happening in the Tynker community! The Design a Mission Patch Challenge winners had their video chat sessions with NASA experts, Tynker community members are tapping into their creativity to make thoughtful projects, and teachers are using coding in the classroom to help students develop confidence and a love of STEM! […]

Laurie Guyon: Coding for Transformational Learning “I choose Tynker because it’s engaging to students, visually appealing, and challenges them to persevere. ” – Laurie Guyon Connect @smilelearning Laurie Guyon Blog WSWHE BOCES Saratoga Springs, NY As the Assistant Coordinator for Model Schools at the Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), an organization that provides services to schools in several New York counties, Laurie […]

McKenna Prepares for Her Future! Meet McKenna from Ohio, our newest Featured Maker! She is ten years old and loves to code, draw, and sing. When McKenna grows up, she would like to be an animator, singer, or biologist. While she is in school, her favorite subjects include reading and writing. McKenna is currently on the fourth book of the […]

Community Highlights: May 18-24 We’re excited this week to have announced the winners of the Design a Mission Patch challenge–Ishhaq Ziyam, Madison Morgan, Paxton Summers, Teng Wei Rui, and Neal Apte! We also had the opportunity to speak with Blue Ribbon Educator Yuang Teck Teo, whose student is Teng Wei Rui. Read on to learn more about the exciting projects […]

Teo Yuang Teck Brings NASA and Coding to Malaysia! Connect @RealfunM   Realfun Learning Centre   Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia Teo Yuang Teck, a Tynker Blue Ribbon Educator and director of Realfun Learning Center, has made it his personal mission to teach as many students as possible how to code. Since opening Realfun Learning Center last year in Miri, Malaysia, that […]

NASA and Tynker Mission Patch Design Challenge: The Winners Tynker and NASA STEM Engagement teamed up to bring the first of three “Moon2Mars” challenges to kids worldwide. Following NASA astronauts’ tradition of designing mission patches, kids were asked to create their own patch for an imaginary spacesuit with code. Thousands of kids rose to the occasion, submitting nearly 10,000 unique […]