Community Highlights: March 24 – March 30

Coding for Kids
Last Updated: April 2, 2018 10:04 am
Community Highlights: March 24 – March 30

Community Highlights: March 24 – March 30

Every week we get to reflect on what the awesome Tynker community has been up to! We’ve seen hundreds of great tweets showing kids’ enthusiasm for code, and the community has been creating tons of fantastic projects. Make sure to check out all the exciting games we saw this week – we can’t stop playing them!

Projects of the Week

Boss Blitz Arena by Nolan

Try to survive all the boss fights! Can you defeat the kraken and the puppet master?

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clean up the earth by ErikaJane

Keep the planet healthy by picking up trash!

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Tynker Help! (Clicker Game) by keilanis16

This tutorial shows you how to create your own clicker game in Tynker!

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Attack of the Birds by Sergio

Can you defeat the birds? Use the arrow keys to move, and click to shoot.

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Super Mario power ups by Slushy Casserole

This project shows several of Mario’s power-ups and the items that activate them.

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Peppermintos’s News! by peppermintosfox

Check out the latest news from Peppermintos. This user is taking project requests and talking about their favorite makers.

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Tweets of the Week

Very cool – this teacher has used a grant to purchase Parrot drones to code with Tynker!

No pre-spring break slacking is going on in this classroom!

These kids are excited about their reaction tests!

So cute – check out these kindergartners coding!

These 5th graders are all smiles as they code video games with Tynker.

Nice! 7th graders are getting started with our Python course.

These campers are getting started with Tynker by modding Minecraft. Check out their mods!

On the Blog

This week’s Featured Makers were Sebastian and Olivia! Sebastian reads a book about processing in his free time, and Olivia wants to be a programmer, author, or tour guide when she grows up!

NYC schools have coded 1 million lines of code with Tynker, and John Frezza is one of the teachers bringing Tynker to the city. We also posted two fun projects for April Fool’s Day! Code one of two pranks, linked here.

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 by playing our Hour of Code activities!

About Tynker

Tynker enables children to learn computer programming in a fun and imaginative way. More than 60 million kids worldwide have started learning to code using Tynker.