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Seventh-grader Santiago from Arizona loves STEM and enjoys using 3D printers at his school! In addition to being a lover of science fiction and fantasy, Santiago is also a whiz at Rubik’s cubes! His own personal record time of cube completion? One minute! Santiago has aspirations of making coding a career…. if he doesn’t wind up a NASA scientist that […]

Exercise Your Kids’ Brains This Summer  School’s almost out but that doesn’t mean kids should stop learning. In fact, this is the perfect time for parents to help them avoid the dreaded Summer Slide—the loss of knowledge over summer break. Students, on average, lose up to 30% of their school-year learning over the summer. Fortunately, this doesn’t have to happen! […]

Teaching Remotely with Tynker: Jasmine Thomas Before Jasmine Thomas began teaching, she studied engineering and had a career in the tech industry. So, when looking for the right coding platform to engage her students, she was understandably pretty particular. “What’s thrilled me about Tynker so much is that there’s so much there we’re still busy learning,” Jasmine tells us. “Our […]

AR brings coding to life! AR, short for Augmented Reality, is a way of adding computer-generated effects to real-life photos and videos. And, as an added bonus, AR projects will get you moving around, too! Here’s a look at what’s possible with AR. Check out Wipe Away, a timed game where you have to touch on-screen blocks with your hands […]

It All Adds Up—Coding Helps Kids In Math! This spring has seen parents scrambling to find ways to maintain some kind of normalcy in their kids’ education. And now, just as kids have grown accustomed to an online/remote learning environment, the school year is coming to an end. So how do parents motivate their kids to keep learning from home […]

Let’s learn how to take control of text with Tynker. With these cool text tricks, you can have fun with text! You can make interactive writing, custom text message bubble styles, speech bubbles and labels.  Or you can create a storybook, put on a puppet show, tell a joke, or make your own animation. You can even use computer code […]

CodeLab on Tynker LIVE is a fully produced DIY maker show for students and teachers. Every Tuesday to Friday, we’ll connect live on YouTube to share step-by-step tips and tricks to build the most amazing Tynker coding projects ever! From animation, artwork, motion projects, seasonal projects, Hour of Code projects, NASA, Barbie – we’ll build it together. We use a […]

Women in STEM: Rana el Kaliouby Scientist Rana el Kaliouby has just released her first book, Girl Decoded, her compelling memoir following her journey from Egypt to America in a quest to reclaim our humanity by bringing emotional intelligence to technology. And what an incredible and inspiring journey it’s been! From getting her Masters in Science at the American University […]

Teaching Remotely with Tynker: Victor Hicks Connect @CoachHicks1914 The Kindezi Schools Atlanta, GA This week we were so excited to speak to Victor Hicks of The Kindezi Schools in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to working full-time as a computer science teacher, Victor is also a dance coach for the Psi Phi Beta Youth Step Team, so he knows a little […]