Author Archive for Tynker

Lauren is Self-Motivated – and Self-Taught!  After being introduced to Tynker on iPads at her school in Arizona, Lauren fell in love with coding! She sees it as a creative activity and considers it one of her biggest hobbies. The current fifth-grader took it upon herself to learn more, so she “worked on Dragon Spells a few times” and taught […]

Thank You for an Amazing 2017! Happy New Year! 2017 was a busy year for the Tynker team – we rolled out tons of new features, implemented some exciting integrations, and grew our community of makers to over 60 million students across the globe! These amazing students have written more than 3 billion lines of code. Other highlights from the […]

Community Highlights: December 22 – December 29 This week was busy with the holidays, but that didn’t stop kids from coding great projects or teachers from posting awesome tweets! Check out what the Tynker community has been up to – we think you’ll love what kids have been creating! Projects of the Week: Kebab Maker – Create both sweet and […]

Ethan (And His Dad) Love Tynker’s Physics Blocks! When twelve-year-old Ethan isn’t playing the piano, guitar, or trombone, he’s coding! Hailing from Brisbane, Australia, he was introduced to Tynker in his 6th grade class and has been creating fantastic projects ever since. He told us that while his favorite subject in school is maths, he thinks he’s better at science. […]

Community Highlights: December 16 – December 22 Merry Christmas to all those celebrating! This week, we saw projects featuring everything from Santa Claus to coral reefs! Check them out and catch up on everything else the Tynker community has been up to. Control That Santa! – Here’s another fantastic project from featured user GirlGuru! Unikitten christmas special – Tynker user […]

Anastasia Calls Coding a ‘Mind-Stretcher!’ This week’s Featured Maker is a budding programmer and author who told us, “I looooove pineapples!” Ten-year-old Anastasia hails from Australia; she’s in 4th grade and enjoys netball, karate, and, of course, coding! After she was introduced to Tynker at school, she was hooked on coding and continued teaching herself. Anastasia has created some fantastic […]

Code Your Own Snowy Winter Project! We’ve launched into winter, and there’s no better time to get cozy and practice coding! Your kids will have a blast coding with our latest winter project, “Snowball Siege.” With their code, they’ll use snowballs to help penguins defend their meadow from invading ice goblins! Can they figure out how to add a point […]

Ellie Learns Through the Community! Featured Maker Ellie taught herself to code, and she’s thriving with Tynker! Ten-year-old Ellie is from Victoria, Australia, and loves coding and art – especially drawing. We chatted with her and learned more about her and why she loves to code! What do you want to be when you grow up? I would like to […]

The ENIAC Programmers: ‘Refrigerator Ladies’ No More When historians first found photos of the women who coded instructions for ENIAC, the first all-electronic digital computer, they mistook them for “Refrigerator Ladies” – models posing in front of the machines. Francis “Betty” Snyder Holberton, Betty “Jean” Jennings Bartik, Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum, and Frances Bilas […]