Tynker recently launched for schools and educators, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed. Thank you for all your great comments and for your endorsement of our vision. It’s one that we’ve lived and breathed in the last several months, as we’ve worked to develop our platform. It’s thrilling to see that parents, teachers, and schools are just as excited as we are about giving kids the opportunity to learn how to program.

Sarah Perez from TechCrunch characterized Tynker as “more about teaching kids how to think like a programmer, than it is about writing out long lines of code.” This sums up the mission of Tynker: we want to help kids develop logical, structured and algorithmic thinking — what’s known as computational thinking — because these skills are incredibly important in the twenty-first century.

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A writer from edSurge described us much in the same way: Tynker “aims to teach the thought process behind coding more than churning out lines of code.”

Ki Mae Heussner from GigaOM highlighted our belief that kids learn best when they’re having fun, titling her post on us as “From animated animals to algorithmic art: Tynker wants to turn kids into creative coders.”

Jolie O’Dell of Venturebeat covered a different angle — our focus on STEM education. Right now there’s a dire need for better science, technology, engineering and math education, and the Tynker platform is a solution.

In another post on VentureBeat, titled “Why your 8-year old should be coding,” O’Dell comments that “Tynker focuses on the more important but more basic concepts all programming languages have in common, like how loops work, how to solve computing problems, and how to order and structure tasks for machines.”

That’s a quick wrap-up of some of the extensive media coverage that we’ve received. We want to take this opportunity to again thank everyone for your support. Signups are coming in fast — GoTynker!