Coding for Kids
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Community Highlights October 9-October 15
Happy Monday! We’re excited to bring you the best and brightest of the Tynker community. This week, we saw some particularly fantastic projects and tweets and posted some interesting articles on our blog! Take a stab at the games and let us know which one is your favorite!
Projects of the Week:
Dab Clicker: This clicker game gives funny predictions about the future of dabbing! Click the stick figure to make him dab and spend your points on upgrades.
Traditional Origami Boat: Watch a hand-drawn tutorial on how to make an origami boat!
Defender of the Galaxy PC Version: Survive as long as you can in this space shooter game!
AVOID THE CHILDREN: You are a ghost! Collect the glowing lights while avoiding being damaged by the kids.
Tweets of the Week:
Check out this teacher’s rave review of Tynker on Twitter.
Kids in my coding class (elementary school, 2nd/3rd grade) are totally hooked w/ @gotynker Space Cadet & Dragon Spells 🚀 🐉 📱 🤓 https://t.co/W40Qdixtrx
— Rafał Kobyliński (@rkobylinski) October 14, 2017
This user is loving our drone compatibility!
Tell you what Tynker, the battery life with your app lasts 3 times longer than with the app we used to use!
Makes my job so much easier! 😀 pic.twitter.com/o7J258z0ub— DRONEdays (@DRONEdays) October 12, 2017
So cute – this second grader is having a great time coding on an iPad!
https://twitter.com/MrsDerza/status/917934981720231936
Nice! These kids used Tynker to make flashcards in class.
4th graders love using @GoTynker to make electronic flashcards with multi digit multiplication & science vocab words. #TalawandaEmpowers pic.twitter.com/ijDXrxHy5M
— Talawanda STEM (@TalawandaSTEM) October 11, 2017
Featured Maker Noah taught a class at his school to use Tynker!
We have guest presenters today from sixth grade. They taught the class how to use the coding app Tynker. pic.twitter.com/Yofi69kvgQ
— Mrs. Publow's Class (@MrsPublowsClass) October 11, 2017
On the Blog:
This week’s Featured Maker was Alyanna. She wants to be an architect who codes in her free time to relieve stress! We continued our “Women in STEM” series with this article highlighting Frances “Fran” Allen and her amazing work with IBM on compilers, and most recently, we posted this article about ways kids thrive in the Tynker community.
Tynker in the News:
TechRadar published this article about coding a Mambo drone with Tynker! The journalist reported that his nine-year-old son loved it, writing, “he began to see the true power of coding.”
