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Westminster Schools of Augusta (GA) is a private institution with rich tradition of excellence in academics and arts. Computer Science teacher Craig Ham at WSA says “I’ve been very impressed with what I saw in NCLab and know its been promoted by the CSTA. We want to use NCLab primarily for 3D design and introductory

The Dilworth STEM Academy middle school in Reno was one of the first K-12 schools to partner with the NCLab project. There are more students that want to use NCLab than computers available. Therefore we decided to donate some Samsung Chromebooks to the school. Supporting K-12 schools that use NCLab, as well as open source

We are excited to announce that the White Pine County School District (WPCSD) in Nevada is the first school district to become an official partner of the NCLab project! NCLab has openings for five partner schools in every U.S. state.

The Beamer package is a popular tool for students, scientists, and engineers who like LaTeX to prepare their presentations in PDF format. Beamer is a free, open source alternative to PowerPoint that is easy to get used to because of many predefined styles and cool features. Currently, most people are still presenting from their own

To sustain the project growth, we need to expand the underlying cloud computing platform. In the night of Tuesday Feb 26, NCLab will be moved from Linode to a new provider, DigitalOcean, who offers more powerful hardware at lower cost. This will cause a one hour interruption of service. We will notify individually all users

This is the Leather Sofa project by 10-year old Adrian Gonzalez at the Roy Gomm Elementary School in Reno. Adrian created this design in NCLab completely on his own, prior to today’s workshop, consulting the free PLaSM textbook http://femhub.com/textbook-cad for things he did not know. Amazing! The first NCLab CAD Challenge ended on December 31,

Denise Mirich from Owyhee Combined School is one of the participants of the STEM teacher training program organized by Val Byrnes and Holly Marich from the Northern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program (NNRPDP). She shares her impressions with using Karel the Robot in NCLab in her class.

NNRPDP (Northern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program) adopted NCLab for teacher training. NCLab allows educators to bring into their classrooms new tools and methods to teach computer programming, math, geometry, 3D design, writing, and other subjects. This includes cool tricks such as using Karel the Robot to teach probability, using a CAD system to explain

LaTeX was introduced to NCLab recently and we already plan substantial improvements, so this post is not a grand celebration yet. Nevertheless I want to share how easy it was to create my first professional LaTeX document – an invitation letter for an Italian professor. It was super easy – upload all files, press the

Dilworth STEM Academy is Reno uses NCLab to teach 3D geometry. Here are some insights from Jennifer Jones, a Dilworth Math Teacher (posted with permission): “The kids were working on the task of creating four 3D geometric figures and then surrounding them in a torus. The beauty is that when it didn’t work, the kids