Code Jam

We’re excited to announce the winners from this year’s Winter Code Jam. With only two weeks to code during winter break, Tynker received over 3,600 project submissions from around the world, and we now have 6 incredible winners! Tynker’s Winter Code Jam was a skill-based coding competition that challenged young minds to stay sharp over winter break—a great way to […]

Winter is here, and so is the coolest coding competition of the year. Show off your coding skills for a chance to win $1,000 worth of cash prizes over a twelve-day period. Want to hear the best part?  Anyone with a FREE Tynker account can join, even beginners. So be sure to tell all your fellow coders!  The Competition takes […]

The winter holidays are fast approaching and children will be out of school with time on their hands, looking for things to do. We hope they can get outdoors and exercise, read a good book, and spend quality time with the family. They can also code! We also know that today’s generation will gravitate toward their electronic devices to play […]

Another successful Tynker Summer Code Jam is in the record books, and we’re excited to announce the GRAND PRIZE WINNERS! If you missed the final results as we revealed them live, you can still watch the video on YouTube. 1st Place – Happy Day – $2,000 Happy Day created amazing baseball and sporting projects with an imaginative blend of stories and games […]

As the world turned its attention to the heart-warming stories and incredible achievements of its Olympic athletes, young coders at Tynker began doing some amazing things of their own in the spirit of the games for our annual Tynker Summer Code Jam. For example, check out how Happy Day expresses their creativity in this incredible project called Be an Olympian, […]

Summer’s here and so is the hottest coding competition of the year. This time around, our Summer Code Jam features MORE of everything — more fun, more weekly cash and gift card prizes, and more opportunities to win! Just show off your coding skills for the chance to win up to $8,000 in prizes over 6 weeks! Want to hear […]

Tynker Video Code Jam Last year, Tynker had thousands of submissions to our three Code Jams and handed out over $12,000 in prizes to hundreds of winners, so we’re super excited to kick off 2021 with something new — a fantastic February Video Code Jam! In this Video Code Jam, you’ll not only build a project but also make a 1-minute […]

Our 2020 Tynker Holiday Code Jam has come to a close! Over 12,000 young coders from around the globe have competed over the course of this winter, and we now have 10 AWESOME WINNERS! Our Holiday Code Jam, was just one part of Tynker’s Hour of Code in celebration of CSEdWeek. We were so impressed with the amazing entries this year and choosing […]

For the 2020 Hour of Code we have classroom prizes, live coding sessions with NASA, prep webinars, and more