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Featured Maker Hyzzanessa: Learning to Code with Rainbow Cookies!
California third-grader Hyzzanessa thinks she wants to be an environmental scientist when she grows up, though she’s not quite sure yet and admits she might change her mind. That’s okay, at 8 years...
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Have a Very NASA Hour of Code with Tynker
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...
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Can Your Kids’ Screen Time Be Creative?
Can Your Kids’ Screen Time Be Creative? The holiday season is upon us, which means families will gather to eat, drink, and hopefully be merry. Meanwhile, our kids will gravitate to their computers like...
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Barbara Liskov: A Pioneer in Modern Code Writing
Barbara Liskov: A Pioneer In Modern Code Writing In 2008, renowned computer scientist Barbara Liskov won the prestigious Turing Award, an award often referred to as the Nobel Prize of computing, and in...
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5 Tynker Features that Educators Love
5 Tynker Features that Educators Love Like all tools and platforms- the more you use the tool, the more you discover. Tynker has a handful of exceptional features for students and teachers, though...
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What Is Coding For Kids?
What Is Coding For Kids? With the new year upon us and kids heading back to school, this is the perfect time for parents to introduce their kids to coding. By this point, you’ve probably read about all...
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Learning Problem-Solving with Tynker is Music to Amaya’s Ears
It’s hard to imagine that our Featured Maker, 12-year-old Amaya, has any free time at all. After all, this California native already plays four instruments — cello’s her favorite, but she also plays...
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Women in STEM: Joy Buolamwini
Women in STEM: Joy Buolamwini Joy Buolamwini is a digital activist, championing social issues in the medium that she believes will best shine a light on her message. Whether she’s promoting human...
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Setbacks Can Be Steps Forward
Setbacks Can Be Steps Forward When you pour your heart and soul into a project and it doesn’t work out, it can be discouraging to say the least. The emotional residue of not being able to finish or...
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Crystal Clash: The Epic Battle Continues!
Crystal Clash: The Epic Battle Continues! Tynker’s immersive battle game, Crystal Clash, is already a smash hit with over 4 million games played so far. Over the past two seasons kids have been coding...
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Featured Maker Emil Terraforms His Code
Our Featured Maker Emil has joined us all the way from Norway to talk about his experience coding with Tynker! A fourth grader, Emil is ten years old and has a passion for handball, ice skating and,...
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Coding in the News: January 2020
Coding in the News: January 2020 Can you remember a time when you weren’t reaching for your cell phone to text a friend or write an email to a co-worker? It’s getting harder and harder. Or maybe you...
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Featured Maker Teagan: Exploring the Paws-ibilities of Coding
Featured Maker Teagan: Exploring the Paws-ibilities of Coding Meet Teagan, our newest Featured Maker from Colorado! Teagan is 12 and has a passion for both coding and drawing — particularly drawing...
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Women in STEM: Carol Reiley
Women in STEM: Carol Reiley When we were looking for the next candidate in our series exploring women in the sciences, the search was practically over before it started. First of all, Carol Reiley is...
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Featured Maker Nathan Authors His Code
Our newest Featured Maker, Nathan from Ohio, has a huge collection of hobbies in addition to coding — he’s a gymnast, a piano player and even a yellow belt in karate. Above all though, Nathan loves...
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A Gift This Valentine’s Day – For Your Kids!
A Gift This Valentine’s Day – For Your Kids! Friday February 14th is Valentine’s Day, the day when we try to show the people that mean most to us—how much we love them. One way to do that is by giving...
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Mason Designs His Future!
Meet 10-year-old Mason from Illinois — our newest Featured Maker! In school, Mason loves math because it’s fun and easy. But when he gets home? It’s all about gaming! Mason’s love of video games isn’t...
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Celebrate Black History With Code!
Celebrate Black History With Code! You’ve probably heard a lot about the gender gap in STEM (science, tech, engineering, math) fields. Getting more girls involved in coding and other sciences is...
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Tynker Junior Adds 9 New Creative Projects!
9 New Creative Projects Added To Tynker Junior! We’ve just updated our Tynker Junior app with 9 new projects that will inspire your kid’s creativity! This is a super cool app that lets kids get really...
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Coding In The News: February 2020
Coding In The News: February 2020 The technological revolution is alive and kicking with a seemingly endless stream of announcements of awe-inspiring innovation. Yesterday, it was the out of this world...
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