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Edu-Maker Sara Boucher is Making the Case in New Mexico  Every state has varied engagement with and need for Computer Science; this week’s educator hails from New Mexico, where the demand for computing jobs far outweighs CS graduates. To find stats on other states’ implementation of Computer Science, check out this resource from Code.org. Select any state, and get informed! […]

How Coding Develops Focus and Organization Welcome to this series, where we’ll explore the relationship between soft skills and coding! We’ll look at the importance of soft skills in programming, as well as how learning to code can help kids develop these skills. So, what are soft skills anyway? A non-technical ability that nevertheless helps a person to succeed at […]

Week 5 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Lights, Code, Action! It’s already Week 5 of the Summer Code-A-Thon! Summer is one of the best times for watching movies or reading a great book. This week, we’re challenging kids to code a storytelling project about their favorite book or movie from this summer. They could recreate their favorite scene, come up with a […]

Educator Brian Briggs Puts Innovation in Motion It’s no secret that California has some pretty innovative educators. Brian Briggs, Director of Innovation for a Northern California elementary school district, is a product of that progressive mindset, and makes his name integrating coding, STEAM, and science into the curriculum.  Brian will be moderating Monday’s #Tynkerchat, with our dedicated code-minded educators. Here’s […]

Week 4 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Fireworks Celebration For Week 4 of the Summer Code-A-Thon, we’re challenging kids to make a fireworks celebration! There are many ways kids can do this, including math drawing, frame-based animation, or anything else they can dream up! For this project, kids can start from a blank template and create a fireworks celebration in any way […]

Toy Hacking and Puppet Building: Get to Know Edu-Maker Sam Patterson Every so often one teacher makes a name for himself in ways that are beyond creative, beyond anything you’d expect in the classroom. That name is Sam Patterson. Sam is a maker teacher like none other. If your child has the chance to taught by Sam, they’ll be hacking […]

Week 3 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Change the World! For Week 3 of the Summer Code-A-Thon, we’re asking kids a question: How are you going to change the world? Kids can code a project about how they hope to have an impact in their local community or on the whole world. It could be as simple as performing one small act […]

NEW! Teach Coding with Tynker’s LEGO WeDo Course We’ve just released a new course that teaches your students to program with the LEGO WeDo 2.0! This fun course introduces the basics of block-based coding and computational thinking, and helps your students build competency with computer science and problem-solving. Tynker’s coding platform allows students to do so much more with LEGO […]

Tynker at ISTE: Minecraft, Apple, LEGOs, and New Courses! Next week is the year’s largest EdTech extravaganza – the International Society for Technology in Education Conference. We’ll be there, and have invited some of education’s finest teachers and collaborators to share their Tynker stories at the Tynker booth (#758). If you’re going to be there, you’ll want to make sure […]