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Color Changing

Romana, one of our youngest Scratch students presented his End of the term project last week. He created a project called "Color Changing". What is the project about?There are two balls, one in turquoise and one in pink. When the sprite GIGA touches the ball, it changes its color to [...]

2021-12-14T19:26:43+09:00 Dec 14, 2021|Tinker Stories|0 Comments

End of Term Project: Drawing a House

Last week marked the end of our third term classes. All students had an opportunity to present their own projects which they created with using the knowledge they acquired during the term. For this presentation we had a total of 28 students along with their parents join our end of [...]

2021-12-08T18:50:00+09:00 Dec 8, 2021|Tinker Stories|0 Comments

ROCKET BLASTER GAME

“Children learn as they play. More importantly, in play, children learn how to learn.” – O. Fred DonaldsonJust like O. Fred Donaldson said, playing is important while learning.7 year old Moraa not only enjoys to play games but also enjoys to create her own games using scratch.This week, she created [...]

2021-11-26T19:30:19+09:00 Nov 26, 2021|Tinker Stories|0 Comments

AI CHATBOT : OWL

Aliyah, 9 years old has been learning coding for the past 2 years. And for the last 2 months she has been learning about AI and Machine Learning.For this lesson, she learnt about Chatbots!Do you know what are chatbots?Well, a Chatbot, a.k.a Chatting robot is a software that automatically communicates [...]

2021-11-09T16:14:35+09:00 Nov 9, 2021|Tinker Stories|0 Comments

Shoot The Fruit Game

PyGame is a module that allows for the easy creation of computer games using Python. Typically, when you want to create a game, you will need game engines and very heavy software running on powerful computers. PyGame simplifies that process, especially when a student is new to the concept of [...]

2021-10-22T18:02:06+09:00 Oct 22, 2021|Tinker Stories|0 Comments

Ping Pong Game

Studies reveal that creating and playing original online games help in children’s brain development. It also allows for creative self-expression, a deep understanding of game rules, structure and new ways of detecting personalities and interests. The players are often involved in planning and problem-solving.Moraa loves tinkering! She is currently a [...]

2021-10-13T13:24:29+09:00 Oct 13, 2021|Tinker Stories|0 Comments

Creating Web Forms

Databases allow software applications to store users' information. For instance, when a user signs up an account on YouTube, the user's information such as email, username and password is stored in a database. These data can be retrieved later, to help identify the user. To work with a database, web [...]

2021-10-01T17:46:08+09:00 Oct 1, 2021|Tinker Stories|0 Comments

Make Me Happy

Machine learning is based on the idea that systems can learn from the data that people feed them, identify patterns and make decisions on their own with less human intervention. Gabriella is an eight year old student. She is a very sweet, talented and curious girl. She enjoys discovering new ways [...]

2021-09-27T15:13:01+09:00 Sep 27, 2021|Tinker Stories|0 Comments

Creating Animations

Albert Einstein once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulates progress thus giving birth to evolution.” Children who tell their own stories foster creative thinking. They have to imagine a world with characters, movement and have to articulate the [...]

2021-09-23T21:48:02+09:00 Sep 23, 2021|Tinker Stories|0 Comments

The Dance Challenge Game with Python

This is a simple dance game built entirely using Python Programming  and the pygame module. In this game, Aaron, a 15 years old Tinker student coded so that his character dancer performs a sequence of moves. Aaron has been taking the STEM classes since 2018, and is now in the [...]

2021-03-29T00:30:31+09:00 Mar 29, 2021|Tinker Stories|0 Comments