Coding for Kids
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Community Highlights ~ December 17-22
Kids are celebrating coding in classrooms and making stellar projects all over! Plus, the release of Tynker Junior gives us even more reason to get excited: Now young children ages 5-7 can start to understand programming ideas like sequencing, pattern recognition, loops, counters, and events. Read on to learn more about what happened this week in the Tynker community!
Projects
Infinity Flight by TheDiamondPunchCard
Choose your character and fly high in the sky! Make sure you dodge the clouds because they will ground you!
Coin Collector by wyattplayzpc
Collect all the coins simply by clicking and your character will move up in the pathway of the coins, but be careful not to pick up the red coins because they are harmful.
Dodge the falling walls and pick up your friends to increase the chain following behind. Garner the biggest chain and help as many people as you can!
Evil Cody Pt. 2 by keysandwich937
This user created a very hard game. This boss is trying to eliminate you but you must use the directional pad on the right side of the screen to direct the wall around Cody to protect him against the fireballs from the boss!
Jet Pack Rock Ride by Grayson K
This game is super hard, but you can beat it! Navigate with the up and down buttons to avoid the rocks and beat the game!
This user created a realistic Pokemon Stadium! Choose your Pokemon at the beginning of the game and defeat your opponent!
Tweets of the Week
These students rocked their Hour of Code!
@gotynker Proud scholars at UPA with their "Certificate of Excellence" in "Hour of Code". pic.twitter.com/YU4baPgqV1
— Vasantha Siva (@siva_vasantha) December 21, 2018
Our newest seasonal project, Ice Art, helps these 5th grade students get creative!
5th graders writing a coding program based off of the knowledge they gained from completing the “Ice Art” project on @gotynker. Our students absolutely love having access to the entire coding library to bring their creative ideas to light. #CAESINNOVATION pic.twitter.com/7ZdoS8FUld
— CBANaperville (@CBANaperville) December 20, 2018
So cool to see this Talawanda student show school spirit with code!
Only a few more coordinates to identify in @GoTynker before this fifth grader successfully makes her penguin draw the Talawanda T. #TalawandaEmpowers #Perseverance pic.twitter.com/6PyBiPfBNg
— Talawanda STEM (@TalawandaSTEM) December 19, 2018
Check out how these students sync Tynker with 3D printing!
Had a BLAST today with @MrsAndersen308 's learning lab students creating designs on @gotynker & printing them on @ff3dprinters our 3Dprinter! @chpinckneyelem @CCSDInnovation pic.twitter.com/UNG6wBOs6G
— Alethea (Ec) Setser (@ecsetser) December 18, 2018
On the Blog
Featured Maker Gordon’s project, Gecko Simulator, is inspired by his pet gecko!
The much-anticipated Tynker Junior app is here-now children ages 5-7 can develop coding skills using picture-based block coding!
Featured Maker Chase likes how you can create your own games in Tynker!
Thanks to our Tynker community for an amazing 2018! We have so much to celebrate, from the launch of popular games like Crystal Clash and new releases like the Tynker Junior App!
Keep contributing to the Tynker community! Parents and teachers can connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and the Tynker Community Forum. Kids can also start learning to code and creating for free with the Tynker app for iPads!
