drones

Come Fly with Me! The Power of Drones in the Classroom The following is a guest post from educator Gabrielle Sipe. She is the K-12 Technology Integrator for the Littlestown Area School District, a Tynker Blue Ribbon Educator, and an Apple Teacher certified in iPads, MacBooks, and Swift Playgrounds. She started her career as a science teacher at the York […]

Tynker Teacher Feature: Connected Toys and Connecting Dots with Todd Burleson  In our new blog series, we feature Tynker Teachers who are moving coding forward in their school district. This week, we’d like you to meet Illinois educator Todd Burleson. Todd is excited about Tynker and coding, and recently shared his love for drone programming at the Illinois Computing Educators Conference, one of […]

New Programming Courses Released for Drones and Robots! We’re very excited to announce that we’ve released two new drone and robot courses to help kids learn to code at home in a fun, creative way. These courses build upon Tynker’s mission to introduce coding in a way that is relevant to any child’s interests–be it robotics, Minecraft, or advanced text languages. Both […]

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 […]

We’re excited to announce the winners of our Drone Giveaway! Many thanks to the teachers who entered, the teachers who won, and all the teachers around the world working to bring programming and technology into the classroom. To learn about future giveaways, updates, and information about how to introduce kids to programming, subscribe to our newsletter. Jan. 29, Week 5 Winners: Darwin Graser – Salk Middle […]

When students learn they’re going to be using programming to control drones, their faces light up. Connected toys are great for teaching programming and bringing STEM learning to life. Drones allow students to visualize their code and use programming to solve real-world challenges–and they’re also super fun and engaging for the whole class! That’s why Tynker is hosting a Parrot Drone Giveaway. […]

To get started, check out Sphero.com and the Sphero Support and Knowledge Base for all the information you need to embark on your exploratory journey with Sphero! Compatibility Sphero 2.0 – Sphero app-enabled robot Ollie – Ollie app-enabled robot Devices – Please refer to the list of compatible devices listed on Sphero’s web site. App – Tynker v3.0.2+ for  iPads Downloading Tynker Download the free Tynker App […]

Programming Parrot Drones with Tynker This is a quick-start guide to program your Parrot drone with the Tynker App. Parrot has a number of videos that you can watch to unbox and set up the drone. Compatibility Drone – Parrot Rolling Spider, Night, Cargo, Mambo, Jumping Sumo (support for Jumping Sumo on iOS only), or Swing (partial support for Swing on iOS) Tablet – Your tablet should support Bluetooth 4.0 […]

At Maker Faire this weekend, we announced support for drones, robots and programmable lights. We’ve released a new category of code blocks so that kids can include connected device capabilities in their programs. Kids learn how to use the new coding blocks by solving “Crash Course,” a sequence of training puzzles with virtual representations of drones, robots, and lights, available in the free […]