Author Archive for Tynker

Minecraft Fan Jack Gives Advice To Other Coders! Jack Williamson is in 4th grade and lives in Kansas City. When he’s not coding, he’s playing outside, using Minecraft, climbing, playing on the iPad, or at Cub Scouts. We talked to him to learn more about him, and why he loves to code! What do you want to be when you […]

Community Highlights: July 10 – 17 We’re excited to share the best of the Tynker community – from projects we’ve enjoyed playing, to tweets that we loved! Projects of the Week: get a cocateil? : In this game, the player gets to buy a cockatiel at the pet store and teach it tricks. Be careful to not feed it poison! […]

Week 6 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Create a Game! It’s Week 6 of the Summer Code-A-Thon!  Summer is a great time to relax and enjoy video games. Whether your kids play on the phone, console, or the computer, there’s lots of fun to be had.  This week, we’re challenging kids to create a game in Tynker! Starting from a blank template, […]

How Coding Develops Focus and Organization Welcome to this series, where we’ll explore the relationship between soft skills and coding! We’ll look at the importance of soft skills in programming, as well as how learning to code can help kids develop these skills. So, what are soft skills anyway? A non-technical ability that nevertheless helps a person to succeed at […]

Week 5 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Lights, Code, Action! It’s already Week 5 of the Summer Code-A-Thon! Summer is one of the best times for watching movies or reading a great book. This week, we’re challenging kids to code a storytelling project about their favorite book or movie from this summer. They could recreate their favorite scene, come up with a […]

Week 4 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Fireworks Celebration For Week 4 of the Summer Code-A-Thon, we’re challenging kids to make a fireworks celebration! There are many ways kids can do this, including math drawing, frame-based animation, or anything else they can dream up! For this project, kids can start from a blank template and create a fireworks celebration in any way […]

Week 3 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Change the World! For Week 3 of the Summer Code-A-Thon, we’re asking kids a question: How are you going to change the world? Kids can code a project about how they hope to have an impact in their local community or on the whole world. It could be as simple as performing one small act […]

NEW! Teach Coding with Tynker’s LEGO WeDo Course We’ve just released a new course that teaches your students to program with the LEGO WeDo 2.0! This fun course introduces the basics of block-based coding and computational thinking, and helps your students build competency with computer science and problem-solving. Tynker’s coding platform allows students to do so much more with LEGO […]

Tynker at ISTE: Minecraft, Apple, LEGOs, and New Courses! Next week is the year’s largest EdTech extravaganza – the International Society for Technology in Education Conference. We’ll be there, and have invited some of education’s finest teachers and collaborators to share their Tynker stories at the Tynker booth (#758). If you’re going to be there, you’ll want to make sure […]