Author Archive for Tynker

 Zahra Manifests Her Imagination Through Code! 7-year-old Zahra from Pennsylvania likes making and reading comic books! (Her favorite is Captain Underpants.) When she grows up she’d like to be an illustrator, a paleontologist, and a developer. She loves Minecraft and would be really happy to intern with them someday! When she’s not doing schoolwork and showing her cyber classmates how […]

Community Highlights: January 28-February 9 So much has happened in the last two weeks in the Tynker community! Tynker Junior is now available on iPhone, so young children just learning to read can code anytime, anywhere. Kaustav Mitra recently joined Tynker as Vice President of Schools, and teachers across the country are winning drones at conferences like TCEA (Texas Computer […]

Andy Hanes: Storytelling with Code! Connect @andy_hanes Friends School Baltimore, MD If you get lucky enough to take a look inside a classroom on a Tynker day at Friends School in Baltimore, Maryland, you might see students researching the 13 colonies so they can code interactive maps and demoing their “Life Cycle of a Dragonfly” coding projects. You might hear […]

Tynker Junior — Now Available for Your iPhone! Tynker Junior, the new coding app for younger children, is now available on both iPhone and iPad! Download this FREE app on your phone from the App Store to encourage the younger learners in your family to start their coding journey. Specifically designed for pre-readers who are still learning how to read, […]

New Year’s Resolutions — Highlighted Projects Our recent seasonal project, “New Year’s Resolution,” was used by kids all over to articulate their ideas for becoming better in 2019! In just a few weeks, we’ve seen many creative spins on this project, from new backgrounds and characters to inventive resolutions! Kids use coding as a creative, expressive medium as they think […]

Steve Gets Sophisticated with Code! Featured Maker Steve is from Arizona! His favorite subject is mathematics, especially fractions. He’s already started using real computer code, like HTML, to make a website about a book he made! He also enjoys getting creative with Tynker. For example, for some of his Tynker projects, Steve composes music electronically and then uploads the file […]

How Coding Helps Kids Develop 4 Key 21st Century Skills It’s no secret that coding helps kids develop skills they need to be successful in school, careers, and beyond. Four of those key skills are critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication—the 4 C’s of the 21st century. Here’s why each of these skills is so important, and how your child […]

Community Highlights: January 21st-January 27th We’re so excited about some of the great Tynker projects to come out this week! As per usual, our Featured Makers are inspiring us with their creativity, and students all over are showing the world what they can do with code! Projects of the Week Hit the Target by Kingstyn Click on the moving targets […]

Zara Expresses Her Artistic Side with Code! Featured Maker Zara is 10 years old and lives in Scotland! She loves art, especially painting with watercolors and acrylic paint. Her favorite subject in school is literacy because, as she describes her writing process: “I just like all my ideas going on a piece of paper. I don’t like to have a […]