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
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
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
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…
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
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 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
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:
New edition of the Karel programming course was just released! It has stunning graphics, new games, and improved autograding. Visit course web page for more information. Request free evaluation access Teachers can request free evaluation access by filling a simple online form.
While improving the NCLab’s self-paced 3D Modeling course, we decided to change the order of arguments in the ROTATE (R) command in PLaSM. This change is not backward compatible but adjustments are easy to make. Previously, the order of the arguments was: R(object, axis, angle) After the change, the last two are switched: R(object, angle,