Busy Week at NCLab

Remember – any K-12 school can make an appointment and visit us for a free one-day STEM workshop at UNR. If interested, fill this online form. Monday – We Visit Glenn Duncan STEM Academy Wednesday – Lemelson STEM Academy Visits Us Thursday – Sierra Nevada Academy Charter School Visits Us Friday – We Visit Cottonwood

Visit us at ISTE 2014!

NCLab will be presented at the ISTE 2014 Expo in Atlanta. We’ll be looking forward to meeting you at Booth 3626! We will be showing our self-paced online STEM courses as well as many cool 3D prints of designs created by K-12 students.

Kudos to Coral Academy!

This Saturday we participated in a STEAM Expo at the Coral Academy of Science in Reno. For those who do not know, STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. The Expo was impressive. Our estimate of the attendance was well over a thousand people. Music could be heard everywhere, and it included a

Visit us on Saturday

NCLab will be part of the STEM EXPO at the Coral Academy of Science in Reno this coming Saturday at 9:30 – 1 pm. We will be showing sample 3D prints and how everyone can create them in NCLab using the free 3D modeling app. We will be also demonstrating other free STEM modules in

PLaSM Goes OO!

After several weeks of hard work we are proud to announce that the internals of PLaSM (NCLab’s CAD library) were rewritten to support object-oriented (OO) programming. As a result, many things got simpler. For example, to change the color of an object “obj” to “STEEL”, you can now type COLOR(obj, STEEL) as opposed to the

NCLab Down Under

Canberra High School is the first school in Australia to teach introductory computer programming courses with NCLab. We are very excited about this new collaboration, and we are looking forward to organizing the first NCLab Summer Camp there in the future. Or should we rather do a Winter Camp? Hmm…

Superintendent’s Testimonial

We had the opportunity to bring Dr. Solin and NCLab into our district for a teacher workshop. The teachers involved raved about the exciting opportunity this could be for our kids. Some teachers who had to be in another workshop expressed disappointment in having had to miss the NCLab workshop. One of our computer teachers

Some Updates

FINISHED: VERSION 1.0 OF THE KAREL PROGRAMMING COURSE We hope that you were able to try the new version of the Karel programming course with beautiful illustrations, new games, and improved autograding. To request free evaluation access, just fill this simple online form. FINISHED: VERSION 0.9.13 OF NCLAB In addition to many routine fixes and

Free K-12 Workshops at UNR

Free NCLab STEM workshops for K-12 schools at UNR were introduced in February 2014 and they quickly became popular. Often we host three school trips per week. School buses come from Reno but also from towns as much as 130 miles away. If you are interested in exposing your students to introductory computer programming and

Caughlin Ranch Elementary

On Monday we hosted a workshop for the gifted and talented program at the Caughlin Ranch Elementary School. These 3rd-graders were simply amazing! Girls were the fastest learners as usual: Working on Karel games ignites collaboration and communication: