{"id":12972,"date":"2018-09-07T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/blog\/?p=12972"},"modified":"2023-03-08T17:11:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T01:11:14","slug":"auburn-animates-and-creates-by-coding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/blog\/auburn-animates-and-creates-by-coding\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn Animates and Creates by Coding!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Auburn Animates and Creates by Coding!<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meet Auburn, an aspiring engineer who uses Tynker to bring her drawings and ideas to life as colorful animations! Auburn is going into the 7th grade in Florida, and she&#8217;s been using Tynker ever since she was in the 3rd grade in Colorado. In her free time, Auburn draws, sings, and dances, but most of all she enjoys creating animations!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Auburn\u2019s dad, Slater, thinks it\u2019s great that Auburn is interested in coding, remarking, \u201cI love that she\u2019s doing it, and I love watching her play around with [Tynker] \u2013 sitting on the couch and not doing other things, but trying to learn and better herself. It\u2019s great.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Auburn is very passionate about creating something new! We had the opportunity to speak with Auburn and her dad to understand how she transforms her creativity into animation and code. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What\u2019s your favorite subject in school? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Math! I love math, math is fun! I think it\u2019s interesting because it\u2019s a way to use numbers to figure out other things. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Why do you like to code? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I like to code because it gives you a chance to create, sort of like moving pictures. Instead of explaining what it is, you can show people what it is without words. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is your favorite project you\u2019ve made so far?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> My favorite project that I\u2019ve made so far is an animation. It\u2019s an animation of Bendy, a character from a video game that I like, sort of doing a little dance he does in the game. I like that one a lot because it actually looked good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p 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=5ac7e6b4949b56920b8b456b&#038;controls=yes&#038;autostart=no\" height=\"350\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>&#8220;Bendy Art Dump Animation&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>How did you feel when you found out your project had been featured?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I was sort of surprised! The project that you chose to feature was for an art competition. I also won third place in that art competition! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What\u2019s your favorite thing you can do in Tynker?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I like to use it to create projects! I like that you can actually draw your own art right on the site; in other programs, the drawing tools are hard to use. I\u2019m glad you can just draw right on the site and not have to go anywhere else and upload it.<\/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 debug it&nbsp;and then publish it. If it still has bugs, I go back and redo the project. <\/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;\"> The teacher did a few basic rundowns of how to use the block coding system, but I pretty much figured out how to use it myself. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Do you think other kids should try coding? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh yeah! I think coding is fun!<\/span><\/p>\n<p 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=59b9186476f293d80b8b456d&#038;controls=yes&#038;autostart=no\" height=\"350\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>&#8220;Undertale!&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>How do you think learning coding has prepared you for the future?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I want to be an engineer when I grow up. Since technology has gotten better over time, I think the majority of designing new pieces of things will be done on computers.&nbsp;I think this is the first step in learning how to do more advanced code. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What advice would you give to kids starting out with Tynker?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Start small first, then gradually start adding new steps as you go to make a better project. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Auburn\u2019s dad, Slater, is a mechanical engineer who works in a field where he has to take apart and fix things every day. Slater says that mechanical engineering and coding are very similar \u2013 \u201cyou start with the basic building blocks, and you put something together and create something.\u201d He believes that \u201cwe need to push children more and more toward coding, and we need to get more and more folks into it as the future progresses.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slater completely supports Auburn\u2019s interest in coding, especially because of the way coding helps children learn to create. \u201cIt\u2019s the process of thinking about \u2018what do I want the end state to be,\u2019 and then \u2018how do I get to that end state\u2019 and what the journey is to get there.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Auburn\u2019s passion for creating new projects is clearly shared by her dad, and we can\u2019t wait to see what other projects she plans to engineer in the future. We\u2019re glad that Auburn is getting experience actualizing her projects with Tynker. Thank you for talking to us, Auburn and Slater!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auburn Animates and Creates by Coding! Meet Auburn, an aspiring engineer who uses Tynker to bring her drawings and ideas to life as colorful animations! Auburn is going into the 7th grade in Florida, and she&#8217;s been using Tynker ever since she was in the 3rd grade in Colorado. 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