Author Archive for Tynker

Emi Brings His Code to Life! Emi loves to animate, draw comic strips, and would love to be a video game producer when he grows up! He even has his own comic series where he has created a story for his stick characters. Emi lives in Vermont and likes playing video games outside of school. When he is in school, he loves tech […]

Sarah Schemanske Inspires with STEM “Love when students are inspired!” -Sarah Schemanske via Twitter Connect @TeachSchemanske Ann Arbor Public Schools Ann Arbor, MI “Can we do PLTW during recess? PLEASE!!” These are the kinds of expressions students in Sarah Schemanske’s class have been known to exclaim. What’s all the fuss about? Part of the excitement stems from the lessons that […]

Community Highlights: March 4th-March 8th It’s been another exciting week in the Tynker community! Kids are making all kinds of creative projects, and teachers and students are coming together to use coding to strengthen critical thinking skills and demonstrate content knowledge. Your favorite multiplayer battle game, Crystal Clash, has new features like Duo Mode, Questbook, Friends and Character Customization; Tynker […]

Ximena Gets Inspiration from Holidays Ximena is a future chef and owner of her own restaurant! She is from Mexico and loves to code, cook, draw, and sing–she even takes extra classes after school to improve her singing. At ten years old, she loves science and her creative time at school where she can create her drawings. We got to […]

Celebrate Women in STEM for International Women’s Day March 8 is International Women’s Day–a day to celebrate the women in our lives and society who are making a difference! Women have helped land humankind on the moon, develop programming languages, found startups, lead the fight for diversity in tech fields, and so much more! This International Women’s Day, learn more […]

It’s Not Fortnite, It’s Crystal Clash! It’s 4:00 in the afternoon, and school has just let out. Eric and Natalie race out of the classroom to get home. They’re about to join more than 30,000 games daily as they play Crystal Clash Season 2! Once home, they see who can pull out their iPads and start playing the fastest. Today […]

Lisa Sato Inspires Students to Get Creative with Code “Best way to start the morning: coding” -Lisa Sato via Twitter Connect @maimaisato     Blog: Authentic STEM Katherine R.Smith Elementary School San Jose, CA For twenty years, Lisa Sato has been inspiring students. In 2018 she celebrated her 20th year teaching and her 4th year teaching 6th grade at Katherine […]

Community Highlights: February 23rd to March 1st This week we saw so many exciting things happening in the Tynker community! Special shout out to Illinois–this week at the ICE (Illinois Computing Educators) Conference, we gave away drones, played Crystal Clash with educators, and met so many people who are passionate about their students’ futures! Becky McDowell, an Illinois educator and […]

NEW! Learn web development with HTML & CSS in our newest course Did you know that there are about 2 billion active websites today? This number has been growing exponentially, with a dizzying array of new online services launching each year, and more people accessing the web using their computers, tablets and mobile phones.  In this new course, students will […]