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Why Use Tynker? It’s no secret that learning to code is great for their academic, mental, and social development. With more than 50 million users around the world, Tynker is the leading solution among online schools for coding to empower kids to learn coding and become makers. So, what exactly makes Tynker the best solution for your child? Our revolutionary […]

How to Manage Your Student Roster in Tynker We’ve made several improvements to rostering features in Tynker for the 2017-18 school year! In addition to Google Classroom and Clever Sync, there are several new ways to set up and manage teacher and student accounts in Tynker. This article highlights the new import options that are now available in Tynker. You […]

Aidan Uses Tynker to Get a Head Start on his CS PhD! Aidan is a 5th grader from Indian Land, South Carolina. He just turned 11 and has quite a few hobbies related to Computer Science, like building LEGO sets! He showed us a huge project he’s working on and said, “This one has 2793 pieces. I was building it […]

How Janese Swanson Brought Tech Toys to Girls It’s 2017, and we now know that gender-neutral toys empower kids and support cognitive development – but it wasn’t always the case that toys were marketed to all kids. Inventor, educator, and software developer Janese Swanson was always interested in how kids learn. After her experiences working in the software industry and […]

Community Highlights – September 2-September 9 This week’s highlights include an exciting game, an impressive animation, and some great tweets. We love seeing how kids are using Tynker! Projects of the Week: DINO COIN: Collect the coins but avoid the dynamite in this prehistoric jumping game! Sea Pirates: Sea Monster Attack!: Two pirates encounter a sea monster in this cool […]

Vivian Gets Inspiration for Projects from Her Favorite Books! Nine-year-old Vivian, who is starting 4th grade this fall, lives and codes in San Jose, California! When asked about her hobbies, she told us, “I love to do Tynker on my iPad!” She also likes to perform in musicals, read, and in her words, “create and write stories about dinosaurs and […]

The Eclipse Was a Computer Science Moment David Lockett is a STEM teacher at Bok Academy in Lake Wales, Florida. He is responsible for implementing a project based curriculum for all students as they rotate through the STEM Lab. Mr. Lockett has a distinguished and diverse background in the fields of Astronomy, Biotechnology, and Engineering, and he is an advocate and […]

Community Highlights: August 26 – September 1 This week, we have some great highlights to share with you from our community! Don’t miss these fantastic projects and awesome tweets from classrooms coding with Tynker. Projects of the Week: Warrior Cats part1: Check out this fun project that’s based on the Warriors series of children’s books by Erin Hunter. Elements: Dress-up meets […]

How to Use Clever with Tynker We’re excited to announce that Tynker is now fully integrated with Clever! Clever, one of the most popular platforms for managing technology access in the classroom, makes it easy to connect student information systems (SIS) with learning apps. Classroom apps are auto-rostered for district administrators, kept up-to-date for classrooms, and students access all apps […]