Author Archive for Tynker

Community Highlights: August 13 – August 19 It’s Monday, which means we get to update you on the Tynker community! This week, we saw lots of exciting games (many of them sports games) and some great tweets! Try your hand at a game or two and don’t miss our blog update, either. Projects of the Week the aMAZEing ninja by […]

All Things New with Tynker for Fall 2018 This summer, we’ve been hard at work improving Tynker for Schools! Using your feedback, we have simplified your teaching experience and given you all the information you need at your fingertips. You can now: Teach your students about AR, STEM, & more with new curriculum and coding tools Save time and effort […]

Imij Creates Digital Images With Code Ten-year-old Featured Maker Imij is very well-traveled – she moved from New York to San Antonio and now lives in Maine! She has been coding since the 2nd grade; now, going into 6th grade, Imij continues to refine her coding skills with Tynker. In her free time, Imij loves to swim and learn about […]

Meet Mark, Aspiring Software Engineer! If you’re on the lookout for incredibly advanced Tynker projects, Featured Maker Mark is your guy! He lives in Sacramento, California, and is thirteen years old. When he’s not busy with his 8th grade studies, he enjoys flying his remote control airplane and dabbling in video games. We chatted with Mark to learn more about […]

The Best of the 2018 Tynker Summer Code-A-Thon This summer’s second annual Code-A-Thon was a huge success! Our amazing users coded projects following themes like “Create a Pet Game” “Change the World” and “Create a Boss Battle.” Over the course of 6 weeks, we received 26,514 project submissions and featured 120 winners – we were blown away by the depth […]

PS 65 Aces Innovative Learning with Tynker PS 65, The Academy of Innovative Learning, just celebrated its 10th year of being open to students. Located near the historic St. George district (known for its famous Victorian style mansions with winding, tree-lined roads that overlook the NYC skyline and harbor), the school is just a 20-minute walk from the Staten Island Ferry. […]

Community Highlights: August 6 – August 12 Happy Monday! Last week, the Tynker community was hard at work submitting projects to the last week of the Summer Code-A-Thon. Check out some of the amazing projects we saw, and don’t miss our Twitter or blog update either! Projects of the Week Famether Boss: Stage 3 by princessellagirly This user created a […]

Zunair Cooks Up Delicious Coding Projects! Zunair is an 11-year-old from Pennsylvania with an appetite for playing games, reading books, and coding. When he’s not playing Fortnite or reading his favorite books, Zunair turns to creating food-related Tynker projects! Zunair loves life as much as he loves food, excitedly telling us, “I’m always happy with what I have!” Zunair’s mom, […]

Future Vet Sofie Codes Amazing Animal Projects! Meet Featured Maker Sofie, a 9-year-old from North Carolina. Sofie enjoys playing video games and loves animals. She uses Tynker to create projects featuring animals, and she even plans to become a veterinarian when she grows up! Sofie is full of ideas for her future plans, and she often tells her mom, Theresa, […]