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Jon Hidalgo has been teaching technology skills for 11 years at Monroe Middle School in Union County Public School District in Monroe, NC.  He shares his experience on Tynker.

Students in Yemen Use Tynker to Open the Door to Peace   Arwa Al-Anesi studied computer science and has worked in IT for the last 15 years. Her experience is very rich, mainly because it comes from a place of passion. She is proud to be the only female who has led sensitive IT projects in Yemen. Recently, she started […]

Chicago Students Exemplify Growth with Almost 3 Million Lines of Tynker Code Miguel Santana is a K-8 Technology Coordinator at Salmon P. Chase Elementary for the Chicago Public School system. He’s in his 23rd year of teaching and was introduced to Tynker through the Hour of Code. To date, CPS students have coded 2,873,888 lines of code with Tynker, making […]

Adrian Santesteban is a Math & Computer Science certified teacher at Williams Middle School at Houston ISD in Houston, Texas. He teaches his students to have Wolverine Pride as well as to code!

Brooklyn Students Help Lead NYC to 1 Million Lines of Code Using Tynker John Frezza is the CS/Tech teacher and single point of contact (SPOC) for Technology at PS 84 Jose DeDiego Magnet School for the Arts and Sciences (K-8th) located in Brooklyn, part of the New York City Dept. Of Education. He has been teaching Technology for six years […]

Tynker Evens the Playing Field at Friends School of Baltimore   Andy Hanes is the current Lower School Technology Integrator and Educator at Friends School of Baltimore and a Tynker Blue Ribbon Educator. He has been teaching for 15 years, 10 of which were in a 3rd grade homeroom. You can follow him on Twitter at: @andy_hanes. Judy Sandler has been […]

Scott Wiessner has been teaching science and robotics for 17 years, and currently teaches at Vista Unified School District in Vista, CA. He entered Special Education this year and brought those ideas with him.

Double Peak K-8 Sees Big Tynker Progress in San Marcos Unified SD Christine Dixon is the Innovation Coordinator TOSA at Double Peak K8 School in San Marcos Unified. She leads the Innovation Program and co-teaches with TK-8 classroom teachers in the areas of technology, computer science, robotics, engineering, design thinking, and making in the Makerspace. She shares her thoughts on […]

Deer Valley USD Teacher Shines as Phoenix Moves Forward with STEM  Sujata Kumar is currently a middle school science and STEM teacher at Anthem School in Deer Valley Unified School District in Phoenix, AZ. She was very excited when Anthem was informed that they were chosen as one of the pilot schools for coding. Sujata doesn’t have a ton of […]