School

Phenix City Schools Embody ‘College and Career Readiness’ with Tynker Phenix City Schools is a public school district serving approximately 7,000 students in grades pK-12. Located in the eastern-most portion of Georgia, Phenix is separated from the larger city of Columbus by only the Chattahoochee River. This guest post was written by Tamara Sanders, Instructional Technology Specialist at Phenix. You can […]

Tynker at ISTE18: Preview Apple Schoolwork and Tynker in Augmented Reality! This month, Tynker will be in Chicago at one of the largest EdTech expos in the world, the International Society for Technology in Education Conference (ISTE). We’ll be joined by the Tynker Blue Ribbon Educators, as well as some of Tynker’s most prolific teachers, who will be sharing how […]

Jon Hidalgo has been teaching technology skills for 11 years at Monroe Middle School in Union County Public School District in Monroe, NC.  He shares his experience on Tynker.

Students in Yemen Use Tynker to Open the Door to Peace   Arwa Al-Anesi studied computer science and has worked in IT for the last 15 years. Her experience is very rich, mainly because it comes from a place of passion. She is proud to be the only female who has led sensitive IT projects in Yemen. Recently, she started […]

Chicago Students Exemplify Growth with Almost 3 Million Lines of Tynker Code Miguel Santana is a K-8 Technology Coordinator at Salmon P. Chase Elementary for the Chicago Public School system. He’s in his 23rd year of teaching and was introduced to Tynker through the Hour of Code. To date, CPS students have coded 2,873,888 lines of code with Tynker, making […]

Last year, Tynker announced the integration of our award-winning Premium curriculum making its way to iPad. Students could now log into the iPad app and work through hundreds of hours of content, including Apple’s Everyone Can Code courses, Space Cadet, and Dragon Spells. Tynker teachers have been digging in since then, and we’ve collected some of their stories here. 

Adrian Santesteban is a Math & Computer Science certified teacher at Williams Middle School at Houston ISD in Houston, Texas. He teaches his students to have Wolverine Pride as well as to code!

Brooklyn Students Help Lead NYC to 1 Million Lines of Code Using Tynker John Frezza is the CS/Tech teacher and single point of contact (SPOC) for Technology at PS 84 Jose DeDiego Magnet School for the Arts and Sciences (K-8th) located in Brooklyn, part of the New York City Dept. Of Education. He has been teaching Technology for six years […]

Tynker Builds Coding Confidence in South Carolina Students Michele Seborowski-Price is a teacher at Orchard Park Elementary School at Fort Mill School District in Fort Mill, South Carolina. She has worked in Technology since 2002 and is currently working on her Masters in Instructional Technology. She loves to play with gadgets and is very honored to have been selected with three […]