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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!

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!