{"id":12471,"date":"2018-05-04T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/blog\/?p=12471"},"modified":"2023-03-09T15:26:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T23:26:44","slug":"anna-is-a-minecraft-modding-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/blog\/anna-is-a-minecraft-modding-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna is a Minecraft Modding Expert!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Anna is a Minecraft Modding Expert!<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meet twelve-year-old Anna, a talented 7th grader who lives and codes in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clayton, North Carolina. She explores Tynker as part of her interest-led homeschooling curriculum and codes in a library coding club. Coding is just one of Anna&#8217;s many interests!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12474\" src=\"https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-2-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-2-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-2-94x70.jpeg 94w, https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-2-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-2-900x675.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/images.tynker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-2-1280x960.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Anna ice skates and has been doing so for about a year, which we think is a really cool hobby. She\u2019s also a talented artist \u2013 we spotted some of her drawings\u00a0when we interviewed her! We\u2019ve been really impressed by Anna\u2019s work in Tynker \u2013 especially her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/minecraft\/mods\/\">Minecraft mods<\/a> \u2013 so we chatted with her to learn more about the maker behind the projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Do you have an idea of what you want to be when you grow up? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t know yet, I have a bunch of choices! Maybe a hockey goaltender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What\u2019s your favorite subject in school? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I like English because I like to write and read. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How did you feel when you found out your project had been featured? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I felt excited, I went crazy!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How did you learn how to use Tynker when you were first starting out? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was so easy \u2013 I figured it out on my own!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Did you use any Tynker courses or tutorials to learn to code? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I did a few courses!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How do you get inspiration for your projects? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes I see other people\u2019s projects and then remix them to make them even cooler! Sometimes I make them on my own with my drawings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How do you use your creativity when you code? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I usually just think a while! Sometimes the right answer comes to me and I suddenly start typing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Why do you like to code? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I just like creativity and cool stuff! You get to drag and drop things instead of drawing with a pen across a page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"\/ide\/embedded?p=5a6667731c36d133018b4ba8&#038;controls=yes&#038;autostart=no\" height=\"350\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>&#8220;Tynker Tiny Things&#8221;\u00a0 Check out more of Anna&#8217;s projects <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/dashboard\/student\/#\/community\/profiles\/5a4bcf3c1c36d128158b456b\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>here<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>What is your favorite project you\u2019ve made so far? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve been doing a lot of Minecraft modding. Those are my most favorite projects. I\u2019ve been a Minecraft fan for a while and then I just saw modding one day and I was like, \u201cWow, what is that?\u201d I got on and started doodling and stuff and thought \u201cWow, this is crazy!\u201d I saw Mythicraft, it\u2019s really cool!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Is there anything you\u2019re planning to make next or currently working on?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I\u2019m making a few other mods. I\u2019ve made a rainbow person and I changed an ocelot into a cat with purple stripes on it! It\u2019s really neat! It\u2019s just got one stripe straight down its back and a stripe by its head. I think I might be making a few other interesting projects. They might be a few Minecraft-like things where kids can interact with the Minecraft characters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What do you do with a project when you\u2019re done with it?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I usually just immediately publish it. I make sure everything\u2019s good first and then I publish it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What\u2019s your favorite feature in Tynker?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I really like doing the art on there. There was this one project that there was like bouncing multicolored balls, I made them do a bunch of crazy stuff! I made them just drop down there and stay down there. I also like Minecraft modding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Do you think other kids should try coding? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah! Kids might like coding because there\u2019s a bunch of art and stuff, and they could make their own things in it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What advice would you give to kids starting out with Tynker? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, if you don\u2019t feel creative enough, think a long time! If you have something that you really like, take it and then you can make it even cooler!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anna\u2019s mom Alicia told us that Anna enjoys coding, and with interest-led homeschooling, they\u2019re able to focus on things she\u2019s passionate about. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anna\u2019s mother provides a lot of great support for Anna as she learns to code! She told us, \u201cOnce I saw that it was something she was interested in, we started going to the library, they had a coding club, and she just runs with it! She shares her projects with me and we talk about them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When asked why learning to code is important, she said, \u201cTechnology is the future! Anything she\u2019s going to be doing in her future is going to have to deal with building things, and coding is the building blocks of technology these days.\u201d We couldn\u2019t agree more \u2013 as we look to the future, kids who have experience coding will certainly have a head start.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks for chatting with us, Anna and Alicia! We\u2019re excited to see what you create next Anna, and where your talent for Tynkering takes you. Keep coding!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna is a Minecraft Modding Expert! Meet twelve-year-old Anna, a talented 7th grader who lives and codes in Clayton, North Carolina. She explores Tynker as part of her interest-led homeschooling curriculum and codes in a library coding club. Coding is just one of Anna&#8217;s many interests! 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