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The Art of Maryam Mirzakhani’s Mathematics When we think of math, most of us don’t immediately draw a connection to painting. But to mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani’s daughter, that’s just how her mother’s work looked – like “painting.” The first woman and the first Iranian to win the prestigious Fields Medal, Maryam had just turned 40 when she died earlier this […]

Community Highlights – September 17-September 24 Happy Monday! It’s always exciting to look back on the previous week and find the best of the best projects and tweets – this week, we’re bringing you some cute projects about animals, and tweets and news focusing on drones!   After Hibernation: The bear from the “Hibernation” game returns! Help him redecorate his […]

For Chloe, Coding is a Stress Reliever! Chloe is in 5th grade and is 10 years old! She lives in San Jose, California, and in her free time she likes to read, take swimming lessons, and attend dance classes. In her words, “I mostly do Tynker on the weekends!” We’ve been really impressed by her projects lately, so we chatted […]

How to Code Your Own Autumn Leaves Project! Fall is quickly approaching, and it’ll soon be the season of pumpkin spice and cozy sweaters! One of our favorite parts of fall is seeing the leaves change. As the seasons change and trees produce less chlorophyll, their green color fades and makes way for other beautiful hues like red and yellow! […]

Community Highlights – September 10-September 16 Among this week’s highlights are a creative farming game, a whimsical zoo game, and a whole bunch of great tweets. We’re excited to bring you the best of the Tynker community! Projects of the Week: Cherries & Berries: Plant and harvest fruits and berries in this cool project. The Zoo of choices: Try your […]

The Best of Tynker’s Summer Code-A-Thon This summer’s Code-A-Thon was a huge success! 15,361 kids wrote 3,595,276 lines of code following themes like “How Would You Change The World?” “Lights, Code, Action!” and “Teach Us Something!” Over the course of 10 weeks, we received 38,141 project submissions, and we were blown away by the depth and breadth of projects we […]

Why Use Tynker? It’s no secret that learning to code is great for their academic, mental, and social development. With more than 50 million users around the world, Tynker is the leading solution among online schools for coding to empower kids to learn coding and become makers. So, what exactly makes Tynker the best solution for your child? Our revolutionary […]

How to Manage Your Student Roster in Tynker We’ve made several improvements to rostering features in Tynker for the 2017-18 school year! In addition to Google Classroom and Clever Sync, there are several new ways to set up and manage teacher and student accounts in Tynker. This article highlights the new import options that are now available in Tynker. You […]

Aidan Uses Tynker to Get a Head Start on his CS PhD! Aidan is a 5th grader from Indian Land, South Carolina. He just turned 11 and has quite a few hobbies related to Computer Science, like building LEGO sets! He showed us a huge project he’s working on and said, “This one has 2793 pieces. I was building it […]