By Sena Loyd, Director Carson City Library Libraries have to change. We understand knowledge doesn’t necessarily just come from books. We’re in the generation where information is at our fingertips, but the way we access it is constantly changing. And how do we know what information is correct? The Carson City Library is bridging that
NCLab presented itself to a group of peers and venture capitalists at the Venture Summit West 2017 in Silicon Valley. Click on the image below to retrieve the PPTX file.
This two-page document provide an overview of courses and services provided by NCLab. Click on the image to retrieve the PDF file!
Soft skills such as perseverance, problem solving and coping with failure are increasingly important to employers. The table below provides a concise overview of the soft, hard and applied skills taught by NCLab in the context of computer programming and 3D modeling. Click to download the PDF file:
Dear STEAM Coders and Makers, We are excited to share the fourth issue of our monthly newsletter Full STEAM Ahead. The newsletter delivers messages from prominent personalities, comments on recent developments as well as on the exciting history of computing, brings updates from schools and libraries, presents tutorials and short courses on various computing subjects,
Our team spent this Saturday in Las Vegas, training NV Ready 21 educators and coaches in coding and 3D modeling. It was once again obvious that in-person training is so much more efficient that a webinar. It was an awesome day, and we are ready to visit the individual schools for follow-up workshops! Sheila explains
The NCLab Team is pleased to announce the release of new versions of the free game-based coding and 3D modeling courses. Visit Teachers page to request your free professional development license! Major improvements include dozens of self-graded quizzes and performance tasks (creative projects) matching NGSS standards. In addition, we have implemented many other improvements based on instructor
We just love working with librarians! It always is so energizing and fun. Today we had the opportunity to help about 15 new Clark County and Tonopah librarians explore NCLab’s Virtual Desktop, Creative Suite, and game-based Karel, Turtle and 3D Modeling courses. Sheila explains the principles of game-based learning: Cool ticket with QR code! Since
Today we visited the German International School of Pretoria, South Africa. This is the SA capital’s distinguished K-12 school which has a long tradition of excellence in robotics and other STEM areas. The principal Mr. Clevens and STEM teachers find NCLab courses superior to other products on the market. The school is going to use
In the article about John von Neumann we mentioned that he invented the Monte Carlo method. This method is very simple in its nature. It uses the “brute force” of computing to solve a wide range of problems. It performs many (thousands of) trials to infer results such as areas or volumes of complex objects,