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7 Spooky Halloween Coding Projects Made by Kids Happy Halloween from your friends at Tynker! We’ve seen tons of awesome Halloween-themed games, trick-or-treating storytelling projects, and spooky remixes published to the Tynker community this past week. Here are some of our favorites! Make sure you turn up your sound so you don’t miss the sound effects and scary music. 2 […]

How Learning to Code Can Improve Math Scores By adding coding across the curriculum with Tynker, Jenny Anderson, a STEM specialist at a magnet elementary school in Southern California, increased her students’ math scores and targeted girls in 3rd and 4th grades to increase their interest in STEM. Now her school is being used as the model for other schools across the district […]

Community Highlights: October 17 – 23 With kids around the US back in school, the Tynker Community really seems to be ramping up with a lot of great new projects. Projects of the Week 3D Simulator | V: This project uses a really cool technique that involves stamping to create the appearance of a rotating 3D shape. pac man spelling: […]

We Had a Blast at Minefaire 2016! We spent the weekend in Philadelphia for Minefaire 2016, an a huge convention for Minecraft fans. Kids were incredibly excited about modding and making resources with Tynker. Kids loved trying their hand at modding with Tynker’s easy-to-use modding platform. And parents loved the opportunity to channel their kids’ passion for Minecraft into excitement about […]

New! JavaScript School Course Launched Tynker’s new JavaScript course prepares students for the rigors of AP Computer Science when they get to high school and bridges the gap between block-based coding and text-based coding. Tynker’s curriculum is the best way to get your students on track to succeed in AP Computer Science and beyond while sparking a lifelong passion for creating […]

Community Highlights: October 10 – 16 There’s been a lot going on this past week in Tynker’s Maker Community! Projects of the Week Emoji Meme Maker: This project lets you design your own emoji! Choose eyes, a mouth, and more. quiz projekt: This project was submitted by a student in a Tynker classroom in Sweden. It’s an English quiz for […]

How to Use Google Classroom with Tynker Tynker’s Google Classroom integration streamlines the process of importing students to Tynker, assigning Tynker lessons, and seeing grades. This integration is available for free to all teachers and students who use Tynker and Google Classroom. With the Google Classroom integration, teachers can: Log in using Google authentication Import all their Google Classroom students with […]

Community Highlights: October 3 – 9 We’ve seen so many cool things this past week in the Maker Community. Featured Makers We started our Featured Maker program a few months back in order to showcase some of the incredible kids from around the world who make awesome games, storytelling projects, animations, and more using Tynker. We’ve interviewed kids and their parents […]

Community Highlights: September 26 – October 2 Happy Monday! Here are some of the best things happening in the Tynker community this past week. To join in on the fun, download the Tynker app for your iPad or Android tablet and start coding!       Projects of the Week “Star Scramble” is a game where you need to avoid […]