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  • Teacher with Whiteboard
    Last Updated: October 18, 2013 10:00 am

    Article: ReadWrite: Schools Aren’t Teaching Kids To Code; Here’s Who Is Filling The Gap

    ReadWrite 10/18/13 Learning to code is all the rage these days, but not in one place that matters a...

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  • Tynker Coding Software
    Last Updated: October 16, 2013 10:00 am

    Article: Babble: Forget The Music Lessons, We Need To Teach Kids Coding

    Babble 10/16/13 She asked for more ukeleles. At our Parent Council Meeting last week, the principal brought a funding...

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  • Last Updated: October 15, 2013 10:00 am

    Article: Mobile Entertainment: Five reasons to teach kids to code

    Five reasons to teach kids to code 10/15/13 The ability to communicate with machines is probably the closest thing...

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  • Last Updated: October 15, 2013 10:00 am

    Tynker in the News: GigaOm: ‘Hour of Code’: Tech Giants Join Code.org to Bring Learn to Code Campaign to Millions of Students

    GigaOm 10/15/13 Silicon Valley’s biggest companies may fight tooth and nail to recruit programmers already groomed for the industry’s...

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  • Kids Crowded Around Laptop
    Last Updated: October 10, 2013 10:00 am

    Article: Edutopia: 7 Apps for Teaching Children Coding Skills

    Edutopia 10/10/13 Editor’s Note: Helen Mowers, co-creator of the Tech Chicks podcast, contributed to this post. It’s hard to imagine...

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  • NPR on Tynker
    Last Updated: October 9, 2013 9:10 pm

    NPR Features Tynker – Can Disruptive Technology Change The Way Kids Learn

    That was the big question KQED’s Katrina Schwartz explored on NPR Morning Edition yesterday – how entrepreneurs and startups...

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  • Kids On Computers
    Last Updated: October 8, 2013 10:00 am

    Tynker in the News: KQED: Can Startups Disrupt the Slow-Moving Education Market?

    KQED  10/08/13 Every year, schools spend billions of dollars on supplies and instructional materials and staff. A lot of...

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  • Musical Puzzle with Dr. Glitch
    Last Updated: August 30, 2013 10:00 am

    Tynker in the News: coolmomtech: Future Coders of the World Can Get a Head Start with Tynker

    coolmomtech.com  08/30/13 During a recent discussion with a group of young kids about what they wanted to be when...

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  • Last Updated: August 19, 2013 10:00 am

    Tynker in the News: Lua for Kids: Scratch vs. Tynker, Who’s the Underdog?

    Lua for Kids  08/19/13 One is an open-source, graphical programming tool that’s highly acclaimed and popular around the world....

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