Author Archive for Tynker

St. Albans Country Day School Empowers Students with Technology Skills! Their school motto, “From Here Go Anywhere,” truly reflects the kind of education students at St. Albans Country Day School receive. Located in Roseville, California, St. Albans is a fully-accredited, independent, diverse, private school, founded in 1963 by parents who wanted a qualitatively different educational environment for their children. Class […]

The 4 C’s Needed for the 21st Century: Critical Thinking This holiday season, give the young people in your life opportunities to develop key 21st century skills like critical thinking and problem solving! In this second installment of our 4 C’s series (missed our post about creativity?), you’ll learn how Tynker helps kids develop critical thinking skills as they solve […]

Community Highlights – November 17 to November 23 We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Hopefully you spent time with family and friends, and maybe even used some of your free time to work on your coding skills with our Thanksgiving coding projects. This week we were excited to see the ways our Tynker community is using code to get […]

Morielle Gets Inspiration from the Tynker Community! Featured Maker Morielle, from Maryland, is heading into the sixth grade and really loves to code! At eleven years old, she also loves to sing and dance, and has even been involved in a theater summer camp where she participated in the show Music Man Junior! Morielle loves math, art, and science class […]

               Byron Loves the Creative Freedom of Coding! Ten-year-old Byron lives and codes in Murray, Utah, and just started 5th grade! In his free time you’ll find him bouncing on his family’s new trampoline or coding. Inspired by his love of Minecraft, he wants to be a programmer, engineer, or architect when he grows […]

Atascadero Middle School Succeeds with STEM Instruction! Located in Atascadero, California, Atascadero Middle School recently adopted a model that allows for the creation of many new electives, including engineering and computer science. This guest post was written by Christina DiSanti and Ryan Allison, engineering and computer science teachers at Atascadero Middle School. You can follow AMS @amssaints. Why Coding? Our district […]

The 4 C’s Needed for the 21st Century: Creativity This month we’re launching a new blog series all about 4 skills kids need to succeed in the 21st century. In this article we’re talking about creativity, the foundation of the 4 C’s (creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration). What is creativity? Is it something people are “born” with, or a skill […]

                                Jada Tells a Story with Code! Featured Maker Jada is a natural storyteller, loves to help others, and is an artist at heart! Jada is seven years old and in second grade. Her favorite subjects are art and reading. She loves to draw pictures, […]

Community Highlights – November 10th to November 16th We’re getting ready for Thanksgiving with our newest seasonal project, Gobble Trouble! Looking for some stellar Featured Makers? Look no further than Jacob and Josiah, who are making awesome projects with code! From fantastic projects to our Featured School and tweets from our Tynker community, there’s so much to be excited about […]