The last two days of NCLab Summer Camps 2014 in Reno were mind-blowing. It is unbelievable how much the kids learned and were able to accomplish with NCLab in just two short days. See for yourself. Beating the Spiders Tracy beats the Spiders. Here, Karel needs to collect spiders in the jungle to buy himself
Hosting the NCLab Summer Camp at an elementary school has a variety of advantages – students feel good in a familiar environment, and there is a playground where they can let the steam out during lunch break. They worked really hard on the second day. Many arrived way before the official 9:00 start time, and
The first NCLab Summer Camp in Minden, NV takes place at the Minden Elementary School. It has 40 students. Although Minden is much smaller than Reno, the demand for the NCLab summer camp was equal or greater. We just opened one session this year though. For many of the kids this was not the first
This DNA model was created during the NCLab Summer Camp in Reno, using the free PLaSM app in NCLab. It demonstrates that computational thinking and basic knowledge of computer programming can be extremely useful when modeling 3D objects with repeating patterns.
Prof. Pattis – creator of the Karel programming language – talks about the history of computers, programming languages, and how the Karel language was born. Students are listening. They are way more engaged than I expected! Entire morning is dedicated to computer programming with Karel the Robot. Prof. Pattis works with students all morning. He
Today, we had the privilege to work with 50 gifted kids from Nevada – mostly from the Reno area but some of them came from Minden (2 hours from Reno), Hawthorne (3 hours), and even Eureka (7 hours). The youngest participant is 6 years old, and the oldest one is 16. For starters we did
This year we have three sessions – Reno 1 (July 23-24 at UNR), Minden (July 28-29 at Minden Elementary School), and Reno 2 (July 30-31 at UNR). Please remember for which session you have signed up. All three sessions are full. When your child comes to a wrong session, unfortunately s/he may not have a
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“Just to let you know, I had a wonderful group of kids this week and they advance very well through the program. All of them liked it and I even had a comment one of my former Scratch students that they enjoyed NClab much better! I awarded 7 purple belts!” — Karin Hester, Smithridge STEM
Sierra Forever Families is a private, nonprofit agency that focuses on finding and nurturing permanent families for children living in foster care. Founded in 1983, Sierra celebrates its 30th anniversary, and more importantly, the placement of more than 3,000 children into forever families. Sierra will be using NCLab computer programming and 3D modeling courses to