Coding for Kids
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Community Highlights: March 27 – April 2
Here’s what’s new in the Tynker community this past week.
Featured Makers
We featured five more amazing kids this week: Elijah, a 10-year-old from Alabama, Sadie, an 11-year-old from New York, Jackson, a 14-year-old from Australia, Yaamini, an 11-year-old from Texas, and Jeremy, a 10-year-old from California.
Yaamini’s story and coding projects are particularly inspiring. She was featured for a project about bullying, and she told us that she created it because she was bullied at her old school, and wanted to use Tynker as a way to tell other kids what bullying is and what they can do if they are bullied.
Projects of the Week
MyBall.io 2.0: This is an amazing multiplayer soccer game implemented in Tynker.
SharkAttack BETA [V 1.1]: You’re the fish and you need to collect worms to eat. But make sure you don’t accidentally chomp on the fisherman’s bait or get eaten by the shark!
Tynker in the News
Microsoft Education published a blog post about various partners (including Tynker) that are bringing STEM learning opportunities to classrooms.
Beth Holland wrote a great article in Education Week about how Tynker is a great example of harnessing the power of play to build computational thinking skills.
A feature story from Microsoft on their #MakeWhatsNext program links to Tynker’s STEM activities as the suggested coding activity for girls to get interested in coding.
Toca Boca featured Tynker as one of the 15 best creative tools for kids.
A Michigan TV channel ran a story on a teacher who’s using Parrot drones and Tynker to engage her students.
Josie McKay, a teacher in Indiana who won one of our drone giveaways was featured in a local newspaper for her work introducing coding to her students at a Drone Club that she founded.
Tweets of the Week
Microsoft’s #MakeWhatsNext campaign encourages young girls to stay in STEM because it will allow them to create the future. As part of this campaign, Microsoft has these girls complete coding activities – and if you take a look at their screens, they’re all coding with Tynker!
Cristina Mittermeier wants to inspire girls to be game changers. #MakeWhatsNext https://t.co/CFdjyrwxr7 pic.twitter.com/Mbq8eyOWdh
— Microsoft (@Microsoft) March 22, 2017
WXYZ Detroit featured a wonderful story of a Michigan teacher who’s bringing coding to her classroom and engaging students in the process with Parrot drones and the Tynker app!
#TECH: MI students learn to code w/programmable drones — huge thanks to Russell of @PCCS_Official for giving a demo https://t.co/ZtmoF4YmcL pic.twitter.com/TpxyJYaPW2
— Alexandra Bahou (@alexabahou) March 28, 2017
Have a wonderful week! Happy coding!
