The coding club at the McQueen High School in Reno is run by an enthusiastic local teacher Carrie Hair, and currently it has about 12 students. Carrie is not an expert in computer programming or in 3D modeling, but she knows that these are really good skills her students should have. Therefore she is using
We had the pleasure to provide a one-day STEM workshop for 15 international teachers under the Teaching Excellence Achievement Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. These teachers came from various parts of the world including South Africa, Nigeria, India, Philippines, Jordan, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, and others. We used the new NCLab Playground with login-free
After several months of work, today we submitted the NCLab’s Hour of Code tutorial to Code.org. Keep your fingers crossed for us. Before November 11 we should know whether we were accepted or not. Click on the image below to get to the tutorial!
We are excited to announce that anyone on the web can freely use many NCLab’s apps without creating a user account or having to log in. Available are Karel the Robot, Turtle Tina, Python, 3D Modeling, GNU Octave, LaTeX, 3D Molecule Sketcher and Finite Element Analysis. Click on the screenshot below to get to the
Today I had the pleasure to visit an awesome art exhibit of Ms. Tia Flores, a renowned Reno artist who specializes in burning native Indian motives on surfaces of gourds (check her site Calabazaart ) I realized that many of the native Indian symbols are beautifully simple geometric patterns: So, when I came home I
Solve mazes with Karel the Robot, draw patterns with Turtle Tina, learn Python, create games, and build your own 3D models. Have fun and make new friends with equally-minded peers. New this Fall will be physical activities including games, geocaching and more! Click on the image below to proceed to the Camps page to learn
We are excited to introduce an original NCLab Karel Coding T-Shirt. What’s interesting about it? It is not for sale. You have to complete the first two sections of the Karel programming course in NCLab to deserve it. If you see somebody else wearing it, you know you just met an outstanding programmer!
NCLab courses improve students’ critical thinking, problem solving skills, and perseverance in an undeniable and measurable way. Have your students take a Pre-Test at the beginning, and then a Post-Test after finishing an NCLab course. The Karel course is recommended for all age groups as it puts the strongest emphasis on computational thinking and abstract
The 5th European Seminar on Computing will take place in the historical premises of the Pilsner Urquell Brewery in Pilsen, Czech Republic, on June 5 – 10, 2016. ESCO is a successful series of interdisciplineary international conferences. It promotes modern technologies and practices in scientific computing and visualization, and strengthens the interaction between researchers and
Dear NCLab Users: We hope that you had a great Summer! Our team used the quiet summer time to work hard on NCLab, adding new features and improving existing functionality. Here are a few examples: 1. NCLab has a brand new home page that better describes what we do – More Than Coding! 2. Under