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Meet our newest Featured Maker, 4th grader Cooper from Canada! He likes to read and play Dungeons & Dragons. When he grows up, he wants to be a video game designer. Cooper spoke with us about his experience coding with Tynker: How did you get introduced to Tynker? Think I’ve been coding for six months and my dad showed me! […]

Imagine their excitement as kids create or add to the story game we’ve started (take a look!), not to mention the fun they’ll have with their friends when they collaborate and play their creations together! With just a few lessons, students can create the projects below using fun “Spooky” graphics, characters and music from our newly updated Media Library. Check out this […]

We are excited to announce our new Tynker en Español grants for school districts in the US. 

For Halloween, your students can express their creative sides by making a fun Halloween coding game from one of our Halloween coding activity templates. They’ll follow step-by-step instructions to create a personalized Halloween-themed game that they can share with their parents and friends. We have tutorials for beginner, intermediate, advanced, and expert coders. Exciting Halloween Coding Activities to Try Out Jack-O-Lantern: […]

Meet our newest Featured Maker, 3rd grader Charlotte from California! She likes arts and crafts and wants to be a video game designer when she grows up. Charlotte spoke with us about her experience coding with Tynker: How did you get introduced to Tynker? Once school started, they downloaded it on the school iPad. So then I started playing. That […]

Tynker is the only coding platform that offers students a comprehensive scaffolded pathway from Pre-K all the way through 12th grade. That’s why we’re so excited to release FOUR NEW COURSES for high school students. Months in the making, each engaging course offers a unique learning experience. Join us as we explore each course in this series of FREE 30-minute […]

Tynker has the newest Minecraft Mods – Bunny Mode, Magic Carpet, Wipeout, and more! Mods include step-by-step tutorials compatible with Minecraft Bedrock in your Tynker account. Exciting? Yes, definitely. Children love Minecraft! So why not have them learn valuable 21st-century coding skills while they’re there at it? Tynker is always looking for new ways to better inform and challenge young […]

Meet our newest Featured Maker, 5th grader Delilah from California! She likes to paint and play games, and her favorite subject in school is reading. Delilah spoke with us about her experience coding with Tynker: How did you get introduced to Tynker? By a classmate in like third grade, so like three years. How did you learn how to use […]

We’re always on the lookout for new ways to make coding fun and engaging. That’s why Tynker is excited to announce its new high school course Intro to Programming and Art, inspired by Zoë Wood, Professor of Computer Science at the renowned California Polytechnic State University (often referred to as Cal Poly San Luis Obispo). Professor Wood’s original course CSC […]