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
ISTE 2014 was an awesome, amazing, and overwhelming experience. We had a chance to present NCLab to educators, administrators and entrepreneurs on a scale that exceeded several other expo events combined. They immediately understand the huge benefits that NCLab’s self-paced online STEM courses are bringing to their schools. We introduced a new program of 10
Nathan Mayes is an electrical engineer who works at GE in Minden, NV. Building robots is his passion. Recently, Karel the Robot in NCLab captured his attention by its simplicity and elegance. Nathan says that building Karel should not be complicated at all and we can expect a first prototype before the end of summer.
We are pleased to announce that Prof. R.E. Pattis, author of the legendary visual programming language for beginners Karel the Robot, will visit the NCLab Summer Camp in Reno on July 24. Pattis formerly was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington. He holds a master’s degree from
The fourth European Seminar on Computing (ESCO 2014) was closed. Thank you for attending and presenting your new research results. It was a great week of computational engineering and science. See you, perhaps, in two years in Pilsen again! Check the conference home page for follow-up information including conference photos and proceedings.
After one year of preparations, the fourth European Seminar on Computing (ESCO 2014) begins tomorrow! The meeting brings together over 250 leading experts in scientific computing and open source software. It takes place in Pilsen, a beautiful historical city in the Czech Republic. Proceedings of the conference will be published in Applied Mathematics and Computation
We just deployed a new web page that is more transparent about what NCLab is about. The changes are not finished, now we will continue with secondary pages.
NCLab empowers FutureCoders.us, a great coding initiative for kids at La Cañada Unified Schools in California. “After participating in the Hour of Code project, we realized that there wasn’t a clear follow-on plan. Future Coders is that follow-on plan! We have selected NCLAB.com. The kids each get an account for the Karel (the robot) Black
Few days ago, kids from the Schurz Elementary School in Mineral County School District, supervised by Jeremy Elsmore, designed a whistle. I was amazed by the idea of creating something that works. So far, all 3D models I saw were just for display. Here it is. The ball inside the chamber is cool. Once printed,
This fun example is a great intro to Solid Modeling: Students learn how to create 2D objects, use colors, rotate objects, move them, subtract them, and extrude 2D objects to 3D. Here is the Pacman with his Berry, and the self-explanatory PLaSM code follows below. Stay tuned, a new fully self-paced version of the NCLab