The Turtle course in NCLab comes after Karel the Robot. It is lighter on logic and its purpose is to expose students to full Python syntax in a playful and visual way, allow them to be creative, and get a taste of 3D modeling. The Turtle course has two parts. Lesson plans for Turtle 1
We are thrilled to announce that NCLab will be pre-installed on 27,000 Chromebooks that will go to Nevada students and teachers in 2016. Nevada Ready 21 is a statewide initiative providing 24-hour access to a laptop for Nevada middle and high school students with the initial phase targeting middle schools. In addition to providing digital
The first NCLab Coding and 3D Modeling Camp of 2016 took place on January 7-8 at UNR. Students were the first to try our new Karel Jr Coding course, the successor of the original Karel Coding course. They also built mazes and games for Karel the Robot, created 3D-printable designs with Turtle Tina, and of
This Monday and Tuesday, the Boys and Girls Club of Lake Tahoe hosted the first NCLab Coding and 3D Modeling camp in their beautiful and spacious facility located in South Lake Tahoe. There were 11 kids in the age range 9 – 14 years. We did introductory computer programming with Karel the Robot, intermediate computer
For those who don’t know Karel the Robot – this is a legendary educational programming language that was used to teach computer programming to millions of kids worldwide. It’s main advantages are super simple logic and syntax, as well as its visual nature, that allow kids to learn computational thinking and computer programming quickly, without
We are delighted to report that under the supervision of their teacher Ms. Georgia Lascaris, students of the 4th Primary School of Pefkis, located in Athens (Greece) translated the Karel Hour of Code tutorials, as well as the commands of the Karel programming language, to their native language. Why is this effort so awesome and
The first Career Expo of the Washoe County School District (WCSD) was designed to present 5000+ middle and high schoolers from WCSD with various job opportunities in the area. Awesome event! It took place on Monday and Tuesday, November 9-10. NCLab was invited to give 12 presentations on computer programming and 3D modeling jobs to
After the success of the first NCLab coding and 3D modeling camp that took place in Susanville in April 2015, we were invited to do another one in the November 7-8 weekend. This time the Mt. Lassen Charter School paid for it, to make it accessible to more students. The camp was absolutely awesome again.
Meet students of the elementary school in Chrast, Czech Republic, who learn computer programming and 3D modeling with NClab as part of their after school coding club: They can take advantage of the fact that Karel the Robot understands Czech commands: The 3D modeling app in NClab understands Czech keywords as well: And this is
We will deliver a keynote presentation about the importance of computer programming and 3D modeling skills for engineering careers, and present a display of 3D prints, flyers, textbooks, and interactive activities. Hope to see you at the Reno Convention Center on Monday and Tuesday!