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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

Here is a neat rainbow model that we created with kids during the NCLab Winter Camp at the Discovery Museum in Reno. The rainbow is created using concentric thin rings, removing their halves by subtracting a suitably positioned large cube, and displaying them together. This is also a very good exercise to practice Python lists.

Today I received this link with a Sierpinski tetrahedron fractal from Dr. Teague https://desktop.nclab.com/viewer/6a830b8f27b44d76a4eccaad06aac400 while working with kids at the Discovery Museum in Reno. Since I did not have time to sit down with a computer, I just opened the link on my Android smartphone – and it worked! For a complex 3D geometry, pretty

Here is a battleship stairwell created by Dr Teague as part of the NCLab Edmodo 3D modeling course Click on the image below to retrieve the actual 3D geometry from NCLab (this will create a new tab). Use mouse controls to freely rotate the object in 3D space, and zoom in and out. Soon, these

Dear NCLab users: Thank you for your support in the last year, and on behalf of the NCLab Team I wish you much success and prosperity in the New Year 2014. NCLab’s self-paced online computer programming and 3D modeling courses are now being used at 50+ schools in 11 Nevada school districts, at NCLab programming clubs, and at the Discovery

The Discovery Museum in Reno is offering a 2-day Winter Camp on computer programming with Karel the Robot on Jan 2-3, and a 5-day Winter Camp on 3D modeling with PLaSM on Jan 6-10. If you are from northern CA or NV, check out this link. Both Winter Camps will be done with NCLab and

Today we had a visit from the NCLab Club in Mineral County School District. We toured a 3D printer together, and after lunch we had a workshop on 3D modeling with NCLab. I never get tired of seeing how kids respond to 3D printing, and how it motivates them to learn geometry to be able

Cottonwood Elementary School in Lyon County is a new NCLab Partner School: http://www.ces.lyon.k12.nv.us. Looking forward to an exciting collaboration!

McGill Elementary School (White Pine SD, NV) is one of many schools that chose the Karel course in NCLab for the Hour of Code. The teacher Kenna Hall says: “Today went really well. The kids loved it and had so much fun! They enjoyed a different kind of challenge.”