NCLab Has New Desktop

Check out NCLab’s new desktop theme and icons! More than 50 additional desktop themes can be chosen in Settings.

Visit us at CSTA 2013!

Visit our booth #103 at the California Science Teachers Association conference in Palm Springs on October 25 – 27, 2013! This is a great opportunity to see who we are, connect with us, attend live presentations, order discounted NCLab licenses, and view a large collection of 3D prints created in NCLab. Every visitor receives a

Fall 2013 Special

How to Order the Course Send orders to sales(at)nclab(dot)com. Please include the following: Number of student accounts (divisible by ten, 30 minimum). School name and address. Name, email, and phone of NCLab Site Admin. Name, email, and phone of School Principal. An online invoice with instant credit card payment option will be emailed to School

Karel Now Has a Face!

Thank you for participating in the ballot! Your votes along with the votes of kids from dozens of our Partner Schools decided about the appearance of the robot: Karel invites you to earn Black Belt in Computer Programming!

NCLab in Mineral County SD

The Mineral County School District adopted NCLab for computer programming and 3D modeling courses. More details about the courses can be found on the course pages: Explore Courses

NCLab Textbooks Printed!

This was our first experience with Lulu.com, an online book printing service. The outcome is awesome – flawless quality hardcover and binding, quality paper, all pages in full color. PDF versions of the textbooks are included in NCLab Courses.

NCLab 0.9.6 Released

This release brings an extraordinary amount of new functionality that reflects an equally extraordinary effort that we have put into it: Karel Has a Debug Mode Based on many instructors’ requests, we implemented stepping through Karel programs. In the main menu, there is a new blue arrow button for that: You can either step through

NCLab Speaks German!

Willkommen! Based on increasing demand from our European users, NCLab was translated to German. The language menu is available in Settings. We have not stopped at texts on icons and menus. The PLaSM language itself has now German commands, which allows kids in Germany to create 3D models using their native tongue. Translating NCLab into

NCLab Comes to Mexico!

Tecnológico de Monterrey became a new NCLab Partner School! NCLab is used at the Escuela de Ingeniería to teach computer programming and parallel GPU computing. This partnership may develop into a future collaboration on educational modules for parallel programming in NCLab. We are very excited about this partnership!

PLaSM Language Revised

3D modeling with PLaSM is the second most popular module in NCLab after computer programming with Karel the Robot. Based on user input collected during the last months we thoroughly revised PLaSM, made it easier to use, and translated into Czech and Polish. Other translations will follow based on requests. Here is a list of