Coding for Kids
Community Highlights: July 30 – August 5
Happy Monday! The Tynker community was hard at work submitting projects to Week 5 of the Summer Code-A-Thon last week – our amazing young coders came up with some awesome quiz games. Check out some of their work!
Projects of the Week
The Ultimate Minecraft Quiz! by Aaron
This quiz has lots of tricky questions that only Minecraft pros will be able to answer.
First ananual TynkerTest! by comet cat
This user created a quiz about popular Tynker users and useful code blocks.
Minecraft Test & IQ evaluator.(COMPLETED!) by Cyboo
This is one of the best quizzes we’ve ever seen in Tynker!
Just like fire//TMV (tynker music video) by Idealistic Soccer
This user animated a full music video for the song “Just Like Fire” by P!nk. Users enjoyed this project and gave it plenty of Likes!
In this game, play as a leopard running through a city. Avoid all the obstacles by jumping with the spacebar.
Harry Potter Quiz by EmiPlayzMC
This take on the Quiz theme will test your knowledge of the Harry Potter books and movies.
Tweets of the Week
We saw two great tweets from this teacher this week – her class is hard at work!
Pereserverence pays off! Students are focused working to use programming blocks, repeats and conditional to complete Dragon Dash! If you are looking for a great, FREE way to get your students programming be sure to check out https://t.co/zhqjxfZasO @gotynker @aapscolligan pic.twitter.com/xtPBQ60Ghn
— Miss Schemanske (@TeachSchemanske) August 2, 2018
We like, we like to…code! Students are working hard to complete the @gotynker tutorials to add an enhanced understanding of programming blocks and capabilities using Tynker! Telling jokes, dancing characters, flying penguins and more. pic.twitter.com/jqzyYaNmiS
— Miss Schemanske (@TeachSchemanske) July 31, 2018
This teacher proudly tweeted about lines of code!
My students programmed 623 lines of code using @gotynker. pic.twitter.com/YUvQG1BF8n
— Kids R Coding (@coding_r) August 2, 2018
Fun drone flights at STEM camp!
https://twitter.com/judytruszcraig/status/1024653765843013632
Love this tweet of a funny project!
The LTAs had a fun day learning to code with Tynker! I call this “Pete the Cat – Learns to Swim” #stem #tynker pic.twitter.com/EUz9zhYhCl
— Ruth Kinkley (@MrsKinkleyLTA) July 30, 2018
On the Blog
This week’s Featured Makers were Rosalee and Nathan! Rosalee gave great advice to other young coders – “Do your best and never give up!” How have Featured Maker Nathan’s coding skills improved since he started using Tynker? “I think I’ve improved quite a bit, because I used it a lot since I found it really fun.”
We also posted this article highlighting Springfield Public Schools’ use of Tynker and Chromebooks!
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!
