Author Archive for Tynker

Shaan Prepares for the Future with Code! Featured Maker Shaan is 11 years old and lives in San Diego, California! He loves baseball and his favorite team is the LA Dodgers. When he’s not in school, he likes to play baseball and code with Tynker. When he grows up, he might want to be the CEO of a technology company. […]

Community Highlights: May 11-17 This week in the Tynker community: Students are using drones to work collaboratively and learn about shapes, and Featured Maker Cadence uses coding to achieve her goal of making games! Read on to learn more! Projects of the Week STEAM Design Thinking Project by brentonlin Use the “a” and “d” keys to dodge the meteors and […]

Cadence: Future Vet! This week’s Featured Maker, Cadence, comes from Oklahoma and is ten years old! She loves to code, read, and play with her dog, Daisy. She has loved softball since the age of three and even plays in a local league! Cadence aspires to be a veterinarian when she grows up, and her favorite school subjects are math […]

Community Highlights May 4th-May 10th We hope everyone had a great Mother’s Day! We saw students using our Mad Libs activity to code poems for their mothers and other special people in their lives. Christina Deoja, an electrical engineer at NASA, offers insight into how to help kids get interested in STEM, and Blue Ribbon Educator Justin Mattson explains why […]

Justin Mattson Teaches Students to Code Before They Can Write! “It’s nice that there are tools out there like Tynker Junior that are accessible to [young learners].” -Justin Mattson Connect   New Ulm Public Schools New Ulm, MN The classroom is quiet. Suddenly, a student excitedly shouts, “Yeah!” They’ve just completed a challenge as part of the Tynker Junior Ocean Odyssey […]

Christina Deoja Engineers with Creativity at NASA! “I have always believed that a good engineer is a creative engineer.” At Tynker, we believe in inspiring the next generation of innovators, scientists, and makers. This month, with Mother’s Day coming up, we’re excited to celebrate mothers in STEM! We often hear how STEAM–science, technology, engineering, arts, and math–should be taught together […]

Community Highlights: April 27th-May 3rd Get ready–this week’s community highlights are packed with great updates from our Tynker blog, teachers, and users! Kids all over checked out the Design a Mission Patch coding challenge inspired by NASA missions, and Tynker Blue Ribbon Educator Ross Hartley gives teachers 3 tiers of collaboration to maximize student-initiated problem-solving–just to name a couple of […]

Ross Hartley Teaches Collaboration Through Robotics! “Tynker allows students to take control of their education through FUN activities!” -Ross Hartley Connect @hartleylross     Pickerington Local School District              Pickerington, OH In Ross Hartley’s Automation and Robotics class at Ridgeview STEM Junior High in Ohio, you’ll see students working together in groups to build robots. But […]

Seasonal Project Highlights Since the beginning of this year, Tynker makers have coded over 1,779,488 projects! Among these projects are the much-loved seasonal projects, where kids practice their critical thinking and creativity skills as they transform their ideas into coding projects that they build and share! In this article, we want to highlight just a few of the excellent projects […]