Coding for Kids
Community Highlights: July 16 – July 22
Happy Monday! The Tynker community was busy working on Week 3 of the Summer Code-A-Thon last week – our young coders created cooking-themed games and more. Check out some of our users’ amazing work!
Projects of the Week
This project is an interesting take on the “Cooking” theme. Throw food at your classmates and teachers, and dodge the food they throw at you.
This chess minigame challenges you to get the knight to the goal spot with as few moves as possible. The most impressive part of this game is that it prevents the player from moving the knight incorrectly.
Cook with Princess Maya by Absorbed Sheep
Help the princess bake a cake! Put all the ingredients together in the right order.
Jinx 2 -Cat World! by keeona the cat
In this project, you play as a cat. Choose the breed of cat that you are, and try the different toys.
This game will test your reflexes. Press the up arrow to jump over the barriers, and press the down arrow to duck below them.
Tweets of the Week
This teacher is having fun experimenting with Tynker!
Tynkering around a bit! @gotynker @DonorsChoose @LYankie @Infosys #IndyPathfinders #Tynker #Girlsthatcode #coding pic.twitter.com/cm2QmtZ0oB
— Paige Stanford (@Paige_O82) July 16, 2018
Cool – this teacher is getting prepared to use Tynker with her students.
Learning a new way for my Ss to #code #tynker #InfyPathfinders @drezac pic.twitter.com/1dw342VLqa
— Caren Long (@ReadforCupcakes) July 16, 2018
Nice shout-out to Tynker in this tweet!
https://twitter.com/Awesomegenie/status/1019377273915486208
These kids are creating projects for our Summer Code-A-Thon!
Today we are creating games to enter into the @gotynker summer code a thon. I wonder what they will create. #allin4theville pic.twitter.com/ltSbzZvwbN
— Elissa Malespina (@elissamalespina) July 19, 2018
Another nice shout-out: “Tynker is so fun and a great way to introduce coding concepts!”
.@gotynker is so fun and a great way to introduce coding concepts! #EveryoneCanCode pic.twitter.com/9HmkYm2n9D
— Jaime Parker (@jparker6) July 19, 2018
On the Blog
This week’s Featured Makers were Bella and Asher! Bella looks to her favorite Tynkerers for advice and loves the Tynker community, and Asher told us that he loves to code because it helps him express himself!
We also posted an article about our new AR course, and one about a school in Georgia using Tynker to fulfill their mission of teaching their students to code!
Keep contributing to the Tynker community! Parents and teachers can connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and the Tynker Community Forum. Kids can start learning to code and creating for free with the Tynker app for iPads or with our FREE Summer Code-A-Thon!
