Tinker Stories

When life gives you lemons… you make a battery! That’s what we call Positive Energy!!! During STEM Saturday, Tinker 4 students created their own Lemon Battery Experiment in order to prove the science principle of electric currents. The simple lemon battery has been made with copper nails and thin pieces of [...]

  Tinker Education teaches STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) with coding and physical computing tools. In each physical computing lesson, students are taught with interactive hands-on systems which include both software and hardware that can sense and respond to the analog world. During Saturday STEM class, Tinker Grade 4 students [...]

Our students have been busy Scientists at work using their creativity and problem-solving skills as part of the Global Cardboard Challenge by Imagination Foundation. The theme of our August camp was Cardboard Invention with Physical Science where our students observed and experimented with Simple Machines, Kinetic Energy and Force. During [...]

Following the successful recreation of the Flappy Bird game, our Tinker 3 students Nathan and Leon couldn’t wait to make another game for the Scratch online community to enjoy. Snake is the name for a video game concept where the player uses the keyboard arrows to draw a line and [...]

In Computer Science there are four key concepts for computational thinking: 1. Decomposition 2. Abstraction 3. Pattern Recognition 4. Algorithms In order to understand how a complex system works, it is easier to use decomposition. Decomposition is breaking down a big problem into smaller manageable parts. Don’t be overwhelmed by a big [...]

Flappy Bird was a mobile game featured on the App Store and Google Play in 2013 by the developer Dong Nguyen from Vietnam. In the game, the player controls a bird, attempting to fly between rows of green pipes without hitting them, or falling to the ground. Over the last [...]