Featured Maker

Our 2020 Summer Code Jam is well under way, and we’re so excited to talk to some of our winners so far to learn more about them, their awesome projects, and their experiences with Tynker! Next up, Alex is one of the winners of our Week 1 Challenge (“Create Your Own Avatar!”) We were very impressed with the dragon avatar […]

Our 2020 Summer Code Jam is well under way, and we’re so excited to talk to some of our winners so far to learn more about them, their awesome projects, and their experiences with Tynker! First up is Iva is one of the winners of our Week 1 Challenge (“Create Your Own Avatar!”), our Week 5 Challenge (“Create a Crazy […]

Meet Gabby, our newest Featured Maker and a budding young programmer from Texas. Gabby showcases her creativity in a lot of different ways — in addition to her passion for creating coding projects with Tynker, she loves to tell stories and draw people she knows. In fact, Gabby says she can pretty much draw anything!  Like every great creative, Gabby […]

Meet Frances, our newest Featured Maker from Canada! She’s a pretty active, creative 5th-grader and when she’s not practicing music (she’s been playing the piano and the ukulele for 5 years, we’re jealous) or playing sports (baseball and soccer are her favorites), she’s also a big fan of coding with Tynker.  Frances sat with us to talk about her experience […]

Seventh-grader Santiago from Arizona loves STEM and enjoys using 3D printers at his school! In addition to being a lover of science fiction and fantasy, Santiago is also a whiz at Rubik’s cubes! His own personal record time of cube completion? One minute! Santiago has aspirations of making coding a career…. if he doesn’t wind up a NASA scientist that […]

Noah is 12 years old and codes because he loves it and wants to become an engineer when he grows up. As our newest Featured Maker, Noah has a wealth of hobbies, including Legos, hockey, and especially football!  Noah’s a big NFL fan and has incorporated that into his favorite project, NFL Quiz, which is what first got our attention! […]

Meet our newest Featured Maker, Travis! A 10-year-old from Pennsylvania, Travis loves to play Fortnite, ride around on his bike and, of course, code on Tynker! Travis’ favorite subject in school is math, partly because his teacher takes what can be a really difficult subject for some, and makes it fun to learn.  These teaching skills that Travis admires are […]

Meet Adel, a seventh grader from Canada and our newest Featured Maker! Outside of school, Adel has a lot of hobbies — he composes his own electronic music and plays the piano and guitar. In school, though, Adel is all about computer class. His fondness for mastering his computer and STEM skills through Tynker has been a large factor in […]

Meet our newest Featured Maker, 11-year-old Giana Marie from Ohio! Giana Marie loves math, social studies and particularly science because of all the hands-on projects, like launching rockets into the sky!  When she’s not in school, she loves to go on Tynker and play Roblox or Minecraft! She’s excited to gain as much coding knowledge as she can through Tynker. […]