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3 Million Budding Coders!
Did you know that over 3 million participants used Tynker’s programming puzzles last week during the Hour-of-Code? Children in thousands of classrooms and homes tried their hand at coding using...
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Fabulous 5th Grade Fun: “Hour of Code” and some Kinders!
Fabulous 5th Grade Fun 12/10/13 Today was one of those days that gets you all pumped about being an educator! I was at our early childhood school today. (One day out of the week I work there.) I spoke...
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Saint Michael School: 2013 December Hour of Code Success
Saint Michael School 12/14/13 Saint Michael School students from Kindergarten through eighth grade experienced “The Hour of Code” the week of December 9-13. You can find more pictures at our Shutterfly...
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Bits and Bytes: Tynker: Teach Your Kids to Code!
Bites and Bytes 12/17/13 I am by no means “old” but when I was in grade school computer programming was not something that was taught or even offered as an extracurricular activity, but that didn’t...
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Lesson Plans that Teach Kids Computer Programming
We are happy to announce two new programming courses for schools appropriate for Grades 3-8: Programming 101, and Programming 102. Students learn at their own pace, which frees you up to provide more...
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30 Minutes of Tynkering goes a long way
“Tynker is an absolute success. As a member of the KySTE, the Kentucky Society for Technology in Education, I’m excited to have the opportunity to present my wonderful experience with Tynker at a...
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Ant’s ICT.com: Tynker
Ant’s ICT.com 01/19/2014 Friday was Day 2 of our enrichment week and gave me another opportunity to work with children from across Key Stage 2. Most of the children enjoyed the challenge of building...
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Futsal, Art and Tynker – A Middle Schooler’s Programming Experience
Saathvik Vangati is a twelve-year old seventh grader enrolled in the Quimby Oak Middle School of the Evergreen school district in San Jose, CA. What do soccer and Tynker have in common? Fun,...
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The Beacon News: Students in District 204 learn how to write computer code
The Beacon News 12/12/13 Biff needs to collect five power cells. The trouble is, the moon base is filled with zombies that will sap Biff’s health if they touch him. Who can protect Biff from the...
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Diary of a Public School Teacher: Hour of Code: My Kids WILL CODE!
Diary of a Public School Teacher 12/14/13 We missed the first 2 days of Computer Science Education Week because we had Snow Days. As much as I enjoyed those two days off , I was kinda bummed about not...
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21st Century Computer Education Using Tynker
Jesse Thorstad is the Technology Coordinator for Fergus Falls Public Schools, MN, where technological learning has begun to shine. School: Fergus Falls Public Schools, MN Using Tynker Since: May 2013...
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Hays Consolidated I.S.D. : Carpenter Hill Students Learn to Think Like...
Hays Consolidated I.S.D. 01/15/2014 Carpenter Hill Elementary School (CHES) students recently participated in Computer Science Education Week as depicted in the video entitled ‘Hour of Code.’ In...
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Programming is the New Literacy – Educator shares Coding Club Experience
Patricia Cloud Technology Associate School: Grand Oak Elementary School, NC Using Tynker Since: April 2013 Started Tynker Premium: Oct 2013 Number of Students on Tynker: 33 Number of projects created...
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Teachalogue: Code Learning
Teachalogue 02/13/14 Introducing myself and my students to the exciting world of coding Author: Anna Miller I recently wrote an article for my school’s website that focused on a brand new and a...
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How We Introduced Coding to Kids using Tynker Puzzles
“In the next 10 years there will be 1.4 million Computer Science jobs in the US and only 400,000 people to fill those jobs. Coding is something that every person and student can do, they just need the...
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New Game Design Course Now Available
We’re excited to tell you about Game Design 101, the new game design course that we have just launched. In this course, students learn all the basics of game programming as they build the Drone Menace...
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Venture Beat: Tynker plans launch of its teach-kids-to-code iPad app at SXSW
Venture Beat 02/18/14 Young kids can acquire foreign languages extremely rapidly. How about computer languages? Education experts are putting pressure on schools to introduce students to programming...
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Learning to Code with Tynker’s Self-Paced Course
John Plattner is a radio enthusiast. He got his first amateur radio license in high school in 1955 and started a business making automated radio systems a few years later. Since then he has seen...
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Programming with Tynker at the Lubavitch Education Center, Miami
Knowledge that will keep on giving… The Lubavitch Education Center (LEC) is a Jewish day school located in Miami that educates over 1,000 children. LEC runs a very succesful programming club using...
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Teaching Kids to Code Will Change the World. Here’s How. Interview with...
Ben Mangan 03/05/2014 As markets get frothy and the Nasdaq marches toward 5,000, I would understand if you believed that we’re on the road to a painful burst of yet another bubble. That road – littered...
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