Tinker Stories

As an 11 year old taking STEM classes, Mbula Nzavi is always thinking and tinkering with PyGame Programming language. She finds making different projects through coding very interesting.  Instead of playing the online games, she likes to make her own games and play them with her brother. One example of [...]

Python is a module and programming language that allows for creation of games. Through coding Games, students get to learn critical thinking. Critical thinking is the ability to take information, then instead of simply memorizing it, analyze it, draw conclusions and find practical applications. One example project that Tinker students [...]

Machine learning is based on the idea that systems can learn from data that people feed them, identify patterns and make decisions on their own with less human intervention. For example, how Netflix suggests shows for its viewers based on the previously watched shows, or self driving cars which uses [...]

Meet Keli. He is a 9 years old Python programmer student. With passion for coding, Keli joined Tinker STEM Education to sharpen his coding skills. And so far, this is how it’s going. The Making of Beautiful squares by Keli In Computer Science, a variable is like a store, used [...]

STEM learning is mostly about designing creative solutions for real-world problems.  Once students start to learn within the context of problem-based STEM design , they can more clearly see the real impact of their learning. This explains the learning outcome of one of our students by the name Nzavi. A [...]

Covid-19 Information Chatbot For the 2020 Coding Challenge, Fernando and Lyon, the two brilliant 12 and 14 year old respectively, partnered up and created the chatbot project with Machine Learning, which gives information on Covid-19! They teamed up and at their own time, they met and discussed an idea online. [...]