CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has announced its list of 2016 Top Ten Summer Learning Programs from its Teen Programming HQ contest. Thanks to the work of Aubrey White and Sena Loyd of Carson City Library in Nevada, NCLab is among them. Read full press release. YALSA’s Teen Programming HQ is
After an introduction by CTL’s Amy Al-Khalidy, Sheila starts speaking at approx. 4:40.
Recently, the Carson City Library did the first NCLab Coding and 3D Modeling Camp for kids. The library director Sena Loyd sent us photos along with a compiled report of what went well, what did not go so well, and what the plans are for the future. Download Report The report can be downloaded here.
“Just wanted to give you guys a heads-up… Our class finished this morning and we had a 97% attendance rate!!! I have never had a class attend at this rate before and it is quite exceptional that these percentages are being reported for a zero period class that meets daily one hour before the regular school
The 3D Model of this Month is Minecraft Skeleton by Evan Rowley. Click on the image to view and run the code. Be patient though – the evaluation takes over a minute. The wait it’s well worth it – the best Minecraft Skeleton our team has ever seen. Congratulations Evan!
NCLab is the key STEM education component of Nevada Ready 21, a 1:1 computing program that brings Chromebooks to 20,000+ Nevada middle school students. The NCLab team is committed to providing the best possible learning experience for both the teachers and the students. The first round of teacher training begins on Monday April 18:
Meet Una Gauper, the first female developer in the history of the NCLab Team!And this is her impressive CV! UNA GAUPER umgauper.github.io | umgauper@gmail.com | Wheatland, CA | SUMMARY I am a junior level full stack JavaScript developer. I have built and deployed a variety of MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node.js) applications. I am
We are excited to report that we have successfully finished a first version of Turtle 3D. This is the next step after Turtle Tina, where the Turtle can freely swim in the 3D space using airplane-like controls of yaw, pitch and roll, and create awesome wire frame models. Two samples are shown below. Click on
Thanks to the efforts of Carson City librarians Sena Loyd and Audrey White, the first NCLab Library Camp will take place on 3/29/16 (grades 6-8) and on 3/31/16 (grades 4 and 5). Second session:
The Eagle Valley Middle School is one of only two Carson City schools that were selected to be part of the Nevada Ready 21 program. As a result, each one of its 750 students will receive a Chromebook with NCLab on it. That’s awesome! This school has been using NCLab courses to teach computer programming