Tynker Blog

Come Visit Us at FETC 2018! It’s that time of year again! The 38th National Future of Education Technology Conference is taking place in Orlando, Florida, on January 23–26. Come visit the Tynker booth for a chance to win a free drone for your classroom, as well as tons of fun Tynker swag. You’ll get a firsthand look at what’s […]

How to Make Screen Time Productive If you’re concerned about the amount of screen time your kids are engaging in, you’re not alone. Millions of parents worry that kids spend too much of their lives glued to screens, and for good reason – according to the BBC, the average child spends over 6 hours each day looking at a screen. […]

Community Highlights: January 6 – January 12 This week was full of impressive projects featuring everything from robots to unicorns! We also saw lots of fantastic tweets – kids (and teachers!) are having a great time coding with Tynker. Have fun playing through these awesome games, and don’t forget to tweet us about your classroom’s coding sessions! Projects of the […]

Tynkering Around the World We’re excited to see our Tynker community growing every day! With users in more than 150 different countries, we’ve hit 3 billion lines of code. Our Tynker users are part of a movement that reaches homes and schools across the globe! You’re what makes this community what it is, so we made a handy infographic to […]

Isaac Jots Down Ideas for Projects Meet Isaac, a 7th grader from Ohio! He’s only been using Tynker for a couple months but has already had a project featured. When he found out his project had been featured, he “felt really excited and happy!” He just turned eleven and enjoys drawing, playing with his LEGOs, and developing his coding skills! […]

Taking Moonshot Initiatives with Mae Jemison Imagine a life without modern medicine, a road trip without the voice of a GPS, or a day without using a cellphone. Such would be the world we’d live in without space exploration and without the work of Dr. Mae Jemison. Inspired in part by Star Trek’s Lt. Uhura, Mae, on her 1992 trip […]

Community Highlights: December 30 – January 5 Happy New Year! This week was busy for everyone, but our makers still submitted thousands of fantastic projects. Check out what the Tynker community has been up to – we think you’ll love what kids have been creating! Projects of the Week: My Animations [ETG preview with Imagi-dog] – A veteran coder announces […]

Lauren is Self-Motivated – and Self-Taught!  After being introduced to Tynker on iPads at her school in Arizona, Lauren fell in love with coding! She sees it as a creative activity and considers it one of her biggest hobbies. The current fifth-grader took it upon herself to learn more, so she “worked on Dragon Spells a few times” and taught […]

Thank You for an Amazing 2017! Happy New Year! 2017 was a busy year for the Tynker team – we rolled out tons of new features, implemented some exciting integrations, and grew our community of makers to over 60 million students across the globe! These amazing students have written more than 3 billion lines of code. Other highlights from the […]