Author Archive for Tynker

Engaging Green Tree Elementary Students in Tech with Tynker Green Tree Elementary School, located in Lake St. Louis, Missouri, has been around for 20 years. The school has a great staff of about 50 teachers with 730 K-6th students in the building. This guest post was written by Doug Small, Computer Teacher for Green Tree Elementary School. You can follow the […]

Community Highlights: September 10 – September 16 It’s Monday, which means it’s our chance to catch up on everything that happened in the Tynker community last week! Between the release of Crystal Clash and some amazing user-generated projects, there is so much great content to enjoy. Read on to take a look at some highlights! Projects of the Week Aquaticas […]

NEW: Battle with Friends in Crystal Clash! Introducing Crystal Clash, Tynker’s newest multiplayer coding game. In this immersive battle game, kids can code their hero to engage in battle with other Tynker users. In order to win, they must outthink and outplay their opponents by writing better code. The spirit of competition motivates kids to continually improve their code as […]

Pranay Loves the Tynker Community! Meet Pranay, an ambitious 11-year-old from Pennsylvania! When he’s not busy succeeding in his 6th grade classroom (he won the Presidential and Principal’s gold medals last year), he’s reading or playing video games – his favorite book is The Clay Marble! Pranay also enjoys coin collecting and plans on acquiring one coin from every year […]

Cross Creek Elementary School Integrates Coding and Robotics Cross Creek Elementary School is located in Thomasville, Georgia. The school is a Title 1 School with an enrollment of 825+ students. Students at Cross Creek are in 3rd and 4th grades. This guest post was written by Michele Dechman, Coding & Robotics Teacher for Cross Creek Elementary School. You can follow her […]

Community Highlights: September 3 – September 9 It’s Monday, which means it’s time to catch up on everything going on in the Tynker community! Check out these amazing user-created projects, including a maze game and multiplayer pong. Also be sure to take a look at what Tynker educators have been sharing on Twitter! Projects of the Week X-Men 2 Player […]

Auburn Animates and Creates by Coding! Meet Auburn, an aspiring engineer who uses Tynker to bring her drawings and ideas to life as colorful animations! Auburn is going into the 7th grade in Florida, and she’s been using Tynker ever since she was in the 3rd grade in Colorado. In her free time, Auburn draws, sings, and dances, but most […]

How Learning to Code Promotes College and Career Readiness Students who are college and career ready know more than just content – they can apply what they’ve learned to whatever problems they encounter. College and career readiness includes mastery of textbook academic knowledge, as well as technical and cognitive skills. The good news? All of these can be developed by […]

Learning to Code William’s Way! The future looks bright with Featured Makers like William learning how to code! The 14-year-old comes from California, where he likes to hang out and talk with his friends and to code, especially with his younger brother. William, who is entering 10th grade, enjoys math and acting – he even works the lighting backstage at […]