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Meet Mary, Artist and Coder Extraordinaire!  This week’s Featured Maker is every teacher’s dream – twelve-year-old Mary loves to learn! In fact, one of the reasons she likes Tynker is that it’s a “very interesting way to learn.” Mary is a 7th grader from Wilmington, Delaware, who enjoys crafting and reading comic books. She even sculpts, making figurines out of […]

For Educator Jennie Magiera, Teaching is a Creative Art Of 550,000 open STEM computing jobs in the United States, Illinois holds about 20,000 – nearly 4X the state average! One of Illinois’s most prominent STEM proponents and veteran educators, Jennie Magiera is the new Chief Program Officer for EdTechTeam (ETT is a leading worldwide professional development organization) and the author […]

Community Highlights October 9-October 15 Happy Monday! We’re excited to bring you the best and brightest of the Tynker community. This week, we saw some particularly fantastic projects and tweets and posted some interesting articles on our blog! Take a stab at the games and let us know which one is your favorite! Projects of the Week: Dab Clicker: This […]

3 Ways Kids Thrive in the Vibrant Tynker Community What happens when more than 60 million kids share coding projects with one another in a supportive and collaborative space? A whole lot of fun – and loads of teaching, sharing, and supporting! When asked about their favorite Tynker feature, kids list things like the ease of coding with blocks, the […]

Alyanna Discovered Tynker on Her Own! It’s always awesome to see kids discover and explore Tynker on their own. That’s how Alyanna, a 7th grader who lives in Manila, Philippines, furthered her interest in coding! She’s almost 13 years old and enjoys participating in lots of sports, including wall climbing, volleyball, and basketball! Alyanna blew us away with the quality […]

Frances Allen: Fusing Passions into a Career When coding, you probably don’t think about the code behind the code – but that’s exactly what Frances “Fran” Allen spent her life doing. The first female IBM fellow and first woman to win the Turing Award, Fran has been in the computing space since it took off in the 50s! During her […]

Community Highlights October 2-October 8 It’s always so hard to decide which projects and tweets to include in our highlights each week! This week, we settled on an interactive prison escape, an amazing race car project, and a fun game cooking game (with a dinosaur). Play to your heart’s content, and have a great week! Projects of the Week: EscapePrison: You […]

Lauren, Self-Taught Programmer, Makes Hilarious Projects! What do you get when you combine a love of science with comedy? One of Featured Maker Lauren’s projects! Ten-year-old Lauren is in 5th grade and lives in Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C. In her free time, she enjoys doing science projects, playing with her dog, and, in her words, “I also love […]

See What Our Amazing Maker Community Has Achieved! Have you had a chance to check out the Tynker community with your child? Kids are using our fully moderated platform to publish thousands of impressive projects every week! Many kids who use Tynker tell us that their favorite feature is the community – they love playing other kids’ projects and getting inspired […]