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Community Highlights: December 11 – December 15 Teachers are still hosting lots of great coding activities in their classes, and students are still having a blast creating with code! This week we saw lots of incredibly creative projects and fun tweets – check them out! Projects of the Week: QU!CK. A speedy game, lol. – Complete the challenges as fast […]

5 Ways to Go #BeyondOneHour This year’s Hour of Code was a huge hit in classrooms across the world! Take advantage of the momentum CS Ed Week provides – here are 5 ways to take your class beyond an Hour of Code: 1. Remind students of their success We’re guessing your students showed some serious motivation during Hour of Code—and […]

Community Highlights: December 2 – December 8 Hour of Code flew by this week, and hundreds of tweets of kids using Tynker were shared. Now that we’re halfway through December, we saw some fun holiday projects this week – check them out! Projects of the Week: Interactive Xmas Scene – Sit by the fire, hang stockings, and decorate your Christmas tree […]

Community Highlights: November 25th – December 1st This week went by so quickly—it’s already time for Hour of Code! We saw lots of amazing projects and exciting tweets. Keep up with us on Twitter and Facebook this week as we dive into HoC! Projects of the Week: Catch The Candy – Drag the bucket to catch all the candy you […]

Tynker Joins Forces with Barbie® on Hour of Code Programming Experience to Inspire Girls to Explore Coding Barbie “Pet Vet” Programming Experience Integrates Barbie Storytelling with Leading Kids Coding Platform MOUNTAIN VIEW Calif., December 1, 2017 —Tynker, the game-based platform that is teaching over 60 million kids how to code, announced a new collaboration with Barbie to expand access to coding […]

Learn how to mod Minecraft on your iPad with Tynker’s step-by-step guide. Customize your game with mods and take your Minecraft experience to the next level.

Tynker’s School Curriculum is Now Available on iPad! Great news – Tynker’s full-fledged curriculum is now on iPad! With integration of Swift Programming language from Apple, Tynker’s iPad coding curriculum makes it easy for educators to introduce students to coding on a tablet. Learn more in our video overview: Introduction to Swift To better prepare students to use Swift Playgrounds […]

Multi-Talented Nathan Loves Coding! When Nathan isn’t acting in commercials, doing Taekwondo as a first degree black belt, or attending rehearsal for theater, he’s coding amazing games! Ten-year-old Nathan is from Sulphur Springs, Texas, and his projects really impressed us. Luckily, Nathan had a bit of time in between his cool activities to chat about why he likes to code […]

Community Highlights: November 18 – November 24 Fidget spinners zoom – This fidget spinner project comes with quiz questions! Planet Explorer – Explore imaginary planets in this awesome project. Sonic the prototype – Try out this prototype remake of Sonic The Hedgehog. GirlGuru! – Featured maker GirlGuru talks about her best projects! Tweets of the week: This teacher is having […]