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Community Highlights: May 11-17 This week in the Tynker community: Students are using drones to work collaboratively and learn about shapes, and Featured Maker Cadence uses coding to achieve her goal of making games! Read on to learn more! Projects of the Week STEAM Design Thinking Project by brentonlin Use the “a” and “d” keys to dodge the meteors and […]

Community Highlights May 4th-May 10th We hope everyone had a great Mother’s Day! We saw students using our Mad Libs activity to code poems for their mothers and other special people in their lives. Christina Deoja, an electrical engineer at NASA, offers insight into how to help kids get interested in STEM, and Blue Ribbon Educator Justin Mattson explains why […]

Community Highlights: April 27th-May 3rd Get ready–this week’s community highlights are packed with great updates from our Tynker blog, teachers, and users! Kids all over checked out the Design a Mission Patch coding challenge inspired by NASA missions, and Tynker Blue Ribbon Educator Ross Hartley gives teachers 3 tiers of collaboration to maximize student-initiated problem-solving–just to name a couple of […]

Community Highlights: April 20th-April 26th We’re so excited about the great projects and teacher tweets we saw this week! And we’re thrilled about our newest coding challenge, the Forward to the Moon Mission Patch Design Challenge, inspired by NASA missions! Read on to learn more about this week’s community highlights! Projects of the Week The Battle! by Sam_ Avoid the […]

Community Highlights: April 13th-19th As always, this week there have been all kinds of exciting things happening in our Tynker community: Makers are creating interesting projects, students are using Tynker to acquire and demonstrate knowledge and skills in the classroom, and we’ve announced that Tynker Junior is free for teachers until August 1st, 2019! (Learn more and download Tynker Junior.) […]

Community Highlights: April 6th-April 12th We’re so excited to see so many fantastic user projects and teacher tweets this week! New features, like the District Dashboard for district admins, clearly demonstrate why Tynker is valuable for schools, and Tynker Blue Ribbon Educator Janeen Cohen shapes her students’ view and use of technology for the better! Plus, this week: Variables are […]

Community Highlights: April 1st-April 7th We hope everyone had a great week and a fun April Fools’ Day! This week we saw some interesting projects from our Tynker community, featured creative educator Marcos Navas on our blog, and announced that Tynker Junior is now available for schools. Read on to learn more! Projects of the Week 2-Person Tank Game by […]

Community Highlights: March 4th-March 8th It’s been another exciting week in the Tynker community! Kids are making all kinds of creative projects, and teachers and students are coming together to use coding to strengthen critical thinking skills and demonstrate content knowledge. Your favorite multiplayer battle game, Crystal Clash, has new features like Duo Mode, Questbook, Friends and Character Customization; Tynker […]

Community Highlights: February 23rd to March 1st This week we saw so many exciting things happening in the Tynker community! Special shout out to Illinois–this week at the ICE (Illinois Computing Educators) Conference, we gave away drones, played Crystal Clash with educators, and met so many people who are passionate about their students’ futures! Becky McDowell, an Illinois educator and […]