Coding for Kids
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Community Highlights: November 26 to December 2nd
Wahoo! Hour of Code Week is here! Now’s the time to celebrate all things code through fun coding projects at home and in school. If you’re waiting for inspiration to strike before you unleash your coding masterpiece, check out some of these great projects and tweets from our Tynker community and blog!
Projects of the Week
Beetleasy by screechingnoodle550
Choose your own beetle and collect the food that pops up in order to out-grow your opponent and ultimately eat them!
Attack of the Birds by jediminemaster
Make sure the birds do not make it across the line! Shoot them down and defend the goal.
The Relics of Sympan – Beta 2.0 by Quasar
Your friend has been kidnapped! Rescue him by fighting through the enemies and making it through the gauntlet!
War Robots The Game by hcosjeffreym
Battle the other bots and customize your own in order to defeat them swiftly and with ease!
Mellow Fight by Teh 1 ho flys a be
Click on the green diamond on the top right of the screen to figure out the moves. Defeat your opponent before he beats you first or try out the campaign!
Tweets of the Week
Celebrating Hour of Code with Tynker!
Happy #HourofCode week! The kids are working hard in the #HamlinLibrary and enjoying @codeorg, @GoogleCSFirst, and @gotynker. 🙂 pic.twitter.com/PO8FoVrt5J
— Kathleen Bateman (@BatemanLibTech) December 3, 2018
This teacher is all set to help her first graders learn how to code this week!
Ready to share @gotynker with first grade! I can’t wait to see how they LOVE #HourOfCode #RedBud132 pic.twitter.com/gmyheFG5cu
— Stephanie Lerch (@sllerch) December 3, 2018
Can these third graders help astronauts find the spaceship? So exciting to see how these students are gearing up for Hour of Code!
Congrats to students who participated in the coding competition held by Fort McMurray Public Schools!
Coding Competition junior high awards for @FMISonthego teams. Congratulations! #ymm @FMPSDTech @DougNicholls2 @gotynker pic.twitter.com/NfABgJAUF5
— FMPSD (@FMPSD) December 1, 2018
Students are learning all kinds of coding concepts here!
On the Blog
We’re excited to have two stellar Featured Makers this week, Morielle and Ahmad! In Morielle’s project, “Ice Cream Maker,” you can customize your ice cream by changing the cone and ice cream color and adding toppings! Ahmad likes to make things disappear in his projects. If you play his project “Platformer Test,” you can make the character disappear when it walks out of the scene!
We’re excited to have St. Albans Country Day School as our Featured School this week! At St. Albans, Ashley Gern, the Computer/Technology teacher, feels that Tynker supports teachers who want to teach coding, and she particularly likes using Tynker’s JavaScript and Python courses with her middle school students. We’re so glad to hear how Ashley is using Tynker to empower students at St. Albans!
This week we published the second installment in our “4 C’s Needed for the 21st Century” blog series, Critical Thinking. Coding helps kids practice all the steps in the critical thinking process, like understanding cause and effect relationships and building on others’ ideas. (And if you missed it, check out last week’s article on Creativity!)
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!
