Code Jam

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 […]

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 […]

Summer Code-A-Thon Winners Announced! The 2017 Code-A-Thon was incredible, but it has now come to an end. We are delighted to announce the Week 10 winners from our final week of  the coding challenge, listed below.  We want to thank all you incredible makers for participating in our Code-A-Thon and we look forward to what you will create in the weeks, […]

Week 2 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Tell Us Your Best Joke! It’s week 2 of the Summer Code-A-Thon! Last week, kids submitted thousands of “summer celebration” projects, and this week, the challenge is “Tell Us Your Best Joke!” To get started, kids can work through our “Tell a Joke” tutorial, which teaches them the coding fundamentals they’ll need to create a […]

Week 1 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Code a Summer Celebration! The Summer Code-A-Thon is live, and already we’re seeing so much amazing creativity and coding from our maker community! For week 1, we’re challenging kids to code a summer celebration! To get started, they can work through our PEEP: Dance with Friends tutorial, which teaches them how to create basic animations […]

5 Ways to Sharpen Up Your Skills for the Summer Code-A-Thon On June 12, we’re launching a global coding event to help you make this the summer of code. But you don’t need to wait until then to start sharpening up your coding skills! Here are five free ways for kids to get coding with fun games, puzzles, and do-it-yourself […]

We were thrilled when Facebook invited us to their Family Hackathon event! We had a blast running the hacking sessions at the event last Saturday. Here are some pictures from 1 Hacker Way! Coding Sessions for Kids During each 1-hour session, kids made interactive greetings, multi-level platformers and even hacked their own custom games. Here are a few finished projects published during the event. Programming Drones, Robots […]

Today, we hosted about 200 children of NVIDIA employees at their Bring Kids to Work day and introduced them to coding with Tynker. It was great to see all the parents coding with their kids.   With activities for all ages, everyone had fun. After learning to code, kids programmed controls to fly drones and controlled an Ollie robot outside.   At one […]