Community Highlights – September 10-September 16

Last Updated: September 18, 2017 9:00 am
Community Highlights – September 10-September 16
Zoo Game Gif

Community Highlights – September 10-September 16

Among this week’s highlights are a creative farming game, a whimsical zoo game, and a whole bunch of great tweets. We’re excited to bring you the best of the Tynker community!

Projects of the Week:

Remix This Project

Cherries & Berries: Plant and harvest fruits and berries in this cool project.

Remix This Project

The Zoo of choices: Try your hand at this whimsical game!

Top Tweets:

It’s always great to see Tynker inspiring independence and problem-solving!

So cute! This tweet features another father-daughter duo bonding over code.

https://twitter.com/SiecrozPhotos/status/907555672543387649

This classroom used drones in a pretty cool way this week.

One teacher’s enthusiastic response to learning about Tynker’s compatibility with drones: “I can’t wait to fly drones with Tynker. If school is this fun I will never want to retire.”

https://twitter.com/GPAEdTech/status/906731612854816768

On the Blog:

This week, we posted the second article in our “Women in STEM” series – this one’s about Janese Swanson, who brought tech toys to girls.Our Featured Maker this week was Aidan, who was so fun to interview! We also featured Tynker Blue Ribbon Educator Kyleigh Westervelt, who led this week’s #Tynkerchat. The Summer Code-A-Thon was a huge success – thank you for your support and your kids’ participation! Here are the highlights.

Tynker in the News:

Digital Trends published this article about our compatibility with Parrot!

Please join the Tynker community! Parents and teachers can connect with us on TwitterFacebookInstagram, and the Tynker Community Forum. Kids can start learning to code and creating for free with the Tynker app for iPads or by playing our Hour of Code activities.

About Tynker

Tynker enables children to learn computer programming in a fun and imaginative way. More than 60 million kids worldwide have started learning to code using Tynker.