Coding for Kids

This is Part 2 of a series on algorithms. Part 1, How to Explain Algorithms to Kids, is available here. Understanding the Basic Algorithms that Power Your Digital Life Algorithms provide a series of instructions that the computer follows to arrive at an answer and they underlie all of our technology. The problem that the algorithm is solving might be […]

Playful Learning with Drones Whether for a birthday, the holidays, or just for fun, a drone is the ultimate gift for kids. Controlling a drone and making it take off and perform stunts is absolutely exhilarating. With Tynker, kids can blend this fun with learning by programming their drones. This allows in them to do much more advanced things with coding, and […]

Five Inspiring Ways that Technology is Making the World Better Every year, the Nominet Trust names 100 people and organizations using digital technology to address the world’s biggest social problems. Tynker is honored to be chosen as one of the Nominet Trust 100 2015 for our efforts to empower children by teaching them to program in a fun, engaging way. […]

Why Coding? There’s been a lot of buzz about kids learning to code lately. This year, almost 200 million students around the world were exposed to coding through the Hour of Code event. And over 90% of American parents want programming added to their child’s curriculum.¹ In today’s digital world, coding is a fundamental skill alongside math and reading, but […]

BY SYLVAN LEARNING | MAR 30, 2015 BALTIMORE (March 30, 2015) – Sylvan Learning, Inc., the leading North American provider of personal learning for students, is launching EDGE, a series of highly engaging, hands-on classes that empower parents to incorporate STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) content into their children’s after-school activities. With an alarming number of parents reporting that their […]

“That’s easy, you can use this block to move the troll,” says Cyrus, a 5th grader at the Casita Center for Technology, Science and Math in San Diego. He’s walking a group of teachers and administrators through a coding puzzle on Tynker, helping one in particular who was stuck. Cyrus and a group of 4th and 5th graders presented their programming […]

By Tomas Durkin, Exhibits Coordinator, Children’s Creativity Museum, San Francisco At the Children’s Creativity Museum, we strive to inspire our visitors to transition from being everyday consumers of media to producers of media.  With our Creative Coding Field Trips, we use Tynker to help students realize that they can actually make the games that they love playing so much! One of […]

Coding with Tynker Produces Confident, Creative Kids What is the benefit of creating with code? Do we want all of our kids to become programmers? Not necessarily. As parents, we want our kids to learn skills important to their future success. We want our children to be confident, independent, and resourceful problem-solvers. Coding with Tynker teaches kids all of these things. […]

If you ask an average 10 year old if she wants to learn programming, the answer will quite possibly be “no”.  However, when kids realize that programming is fun and rewarding, and not hard and frustrating, the result is increased confidence and self-esteem.  Tynker’s game-like approach is getting more kids, especially girls, to learn programming — an exciting shift that […]