Author Archive for Tynker

Alesya Gets Creative with Code! Ten-year-old Alesya lives in New York likes to draw animals and wants to be a vet and an animator when she grows up! As her favorite subjects in school are math and art, that sounds like a great career combination! Fun fact: Aleysa knows how to do Muay Thai, also known as Thai boxing! We […]

Community Highlights ~ December 17-22 Kids are celebrating coding in classrooms and making stellar projects all over! Plus, the release of Tynker Junior gives us even more reason to get excited: Now young children ages 5-7 can start to understand programming ideas like sequencing, pattern recognition, loops, counters, and events. Read on to learn more about what happened this week in […]

Explore Code with Gordon! Gordon is an adventurous individual and our newest Featured Maker! He is nine years old and from South Carolina. He loves to play outside and catch animals. His favorite subject is social studies because he loves to learn about the past! Gordon loves to code and has been doing it for the past couple years. We […]

Thanks to You, We had an Amazing 2018! Dear Tynker Community, We’re so excited about everything that happened this year and we wanted to share with you our favorite highlights! Exciting Growth In 2018, kids completed over 30 million coding challenges and created 10 million projects! Inspiring Makers & Projects We were super impressed by our community of makers! Take for example Natalie, […]

Community Highlights: December 8 to December 14th From the release of the Tynker Junior app to kids and teachers who inspire us, we have a lot to be excited about this week! Galaga Boss Battle 1 by psychoticeconomist202  You have multiple shields to defend yourself from the boss, but you must quickly defeat him before he even has a chance! […]

NEW: Tynker Junior App! We’re very excited to announce the release of our Tynker Junior app, featured by Apple! This app is specifically designed for pre-readers — children ages 5-7 who are still learning how to read. Tynker Junior features word-free code blocks, pictures, voiceovers, and “tap-tap-tap” interactions — no drag-and-drop required! This way, even kids who haven’t yet learned […]

Chase’s Building Blocks to Success! Chase loves to actively seek adventure and challenges, so this ten-year-old gets involved in basketball, flag football, and loves to read—he likes to feel like he is within the story of the book! He’s from California and codes whenever he gets the chance. Chase would like to be an architect when he grows up and […]

Skate with a Penguin in Ice Art! The air is freezing outside, and it’s time to go ice skating! When you ice skate, you can create designs on the ice. In this project, you’ll make a skating game where you drag the penguin to make a beautiful design! But watch out for the obstacles–if the penguin hits them, it’ll go […]

Isabella Codes on the Runway! Isabella is our multi-talented Featured Maker that loves to dance, draw, sing, game, and code! She is nine years old and her favorite subject is art: “It’s really satisfying when you make a good drawing and I guess it’s just fun!” Isabella codes from England and wants to be a fashion designer when she grows […]