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NCLab was part of the First Lego League competition finals at UNR. This was the right audience for NCLab’s self-paced computer programming and 3D modeling courses. Awesome experience!

The Cardan Grille, invented around 1550, belongs to the oldest encryption techniques. “In 1550, Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), known in French as Jérôme Cardan, proposed a simple grid for writing hidden messages. He intended to cloak his messages inside an ordinary letter so that the whole would not appear to be a cipher at all. Cardinal

Thanks to an awesome teacher Michele Baumann and a forward-thinking principal Keith Lewis, the Pau-Wa-Lu Middle School in Gardnerville, NV decided to introduce a regular computer programming course with Karel the Robot in NCLab. The course takes 4-5 weeks, with 45 minutes per day. It is self-paced, so that students of all skill levels and

Today I met with Brian Crosby, former teacher who is now the technology coordinator for the Washoe County School District. What an awesome guy! I had no idea who he was. He was on TED two times: http://learningismessy.com/blog/ Watch the two videos shown on the right. He was totally impressed with NCLab. Understood the main

Today we visited the beautiful city of Minden and met with Dr. Lisa Noonan, the superintendent of Douglas County School District (DCSD). Her school district has over 6,000 students. Dr. Noonan is an impressive administrator – she actually solved the 20 exercises of the Hour of Code tutorial. If I can do it, you can

Las Vegas, NV – After the “hour of code” movement announced recently, two companies from Reno are combining forces to inspire children to learn and enjoy computer coding. Under an initial arrangement EduLock and NCLab will make their combined platforms available to the children from a slum in India. During EduLock’s development in India, they

The NCLab Winter Camp on Robotics and 3D Modeling at the Discovery Museum in Reno lasted one week and kids were exposed to many different activities. They learned about various types of robots and where they are used, ethical and philosophical issues, designed robots on paper, and built 3D models from paper, wood, and plastic.

Based on a growing number of participants, the organizing committee of ESCO 2014 decided to expand the conference by adding one more parallel session. With more capacity available, we are pleased to announce that also the abstract submission deadline was extended until 31 January 2014. ESCO 2014 (the 4th European Seminar on Computing) will take

The NCLab Winter Camp in computer programming at the Nevada Discovery Museum (NVDM) in Reno just finished and it was awesome! In addition to building mazes on computer screen and programming Karel the Robot to navigate them, the kids also built mazes for themselves using cardboard, and navigated them using the same algorithms! Of course,

Let’s compare Karel the Robot and Scratch by solving the same maze. The Karel version is on the left, Scratch on the right: In Karel, students type the following code: To solve the maze with Scratch, students do not type code. Instead, they assemble the following graphical block with the mouse: Scratch also provides a