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Reno firm brings computer education down from the cloud
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3D Heart – Happy Valentine’s Day from NCLab!
Happy Valentine’s Day! Click on the image to view the model in a 3D viewer and export STL file.
Tina, the 3D-Printing Turtle
Today we printed two sample designs created by Tina, the 3D-printing Turtle. Actually, she got some help from Linda Niday, an elementary school teacher from Carson City. The free Turtle App in NCLab allows you to draw beautiful patterns and export them for 3D printing. Without even having to log in to NCLab. Just click
Lesson Plans for Turtle 1 Available
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
NCLab is Part of the Nevada Ready 21 Project
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
Photos from NCLab Winter Camp 2016
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
First NCLab Coding and 3D Modeling Camp in South Lake Tahoe
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
NCLab’s Hour of Code Tutorial Finalized Based on Code.org’s Feedback
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
Karel Coding is Now Available to Greek Students in Their Native Language
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
WCSD Career Expo Hit by Snow Storm
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