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CS Education Week is December 6-12th, 2021. Celebrate with our FREE activities! It’s that time of year again! Join us for the world’s biggest celebration of learning to code. Hour of Code kicks off during Computer Science Education Week each year when teachers around the globe choose fun activities to get students excited about computer programming. Tynker makes it easy […]

For the 2020 Hour of Code we have classroom prizes, live coding sessions with NASA, prep webinars, and more

Have a Very NASA Hour of Code with Tynker This year marks an amazing year for Tynker. Back in the spring of 2019, we collaborated with NASA to offer coding challenges to students from beginner to advanced levels. We held design contests that allowed students to dream big about space, the Moon 2 Mars NASA missions, and how computer science […]

Hour of Code 2019: Get Ready to Blast Off! This year for Hour of Code, stands to be our biggest yet. With over 60 Million students reached all over the world since 2015, we couldn’t be more excited for Computer Science Education Week! Now topping 40+ activities, this year we’ve included new projects and experiences featuring the UN Sustainable Development […]

Moon 2 Mars Part II – The Lunar Gateway Coding Challenge Calling all educators, parents, and students: The Tynker team is excited to bring you the second in a series of coding challenges inspired by NASA space missions! In the first challenge, Design a Mission Patch, students imagined that they were about to embark on a journey to the moon […]

Sharmila Bhattacharya: Powering Human Spaceflight with Bioscience! “‘You can be absolutely anything you want to be. You can be President of the country if that’s what you want to be.’ I realize how important it was for me to hear those words as an impressionable young child. It made me believe that if I worked hard, I could achieve my goals, whatever they may be.” […]

NASA and Tynker Mission Patch Design Challenge: The Expert Sessions Read our previous blog post to learn more about the five winners of the Design a Mission Patch Challenge! This week, the five winners of the Forward to the Moon Mission Patch Design Challenge and their classrooms spoke with experts from NASA! Each session was full of excellent questions from […]

Teo Yuang Teck Brings NASA and Coding to Malaysia! Connect @RealfunM   Realfun Learning Centre   Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia Teo Yuang Teck, a Tynker Blue Ribbon Educator and director of Realfun Learning Center, has made it his personal mission to teach as many students as possible how to code. Since opening Realfun Learning Center last year in Miri, Malaysia, that […]

NASA and Tynker Mission Patch Design Challenge: The Winners Tynker and NASA STEM Engagement teamed up to bring the first of three “Moon2Mars” challenges to kids worldwide. Following NASA astronauts’ tradition of designing mission patches, kids were asked to create their own patch for an imaginary spacesuit with code. Thousands of kids rose to the occasion, submitting nearly 10,000 unique […]