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.
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NCLab’s LaTeX module supports Beamer presentations!
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
NCLab is moving to Digital Ocean on Feb 26
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
Amazing 3D design by a 10-year-old
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 talks about using NCLab in her class
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 adopted NCLab
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: Pre-release impressions
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
PLaSM course at Dilworth STEM Academy
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
NCLab on an Android Phone
Today I [Pavel] bought my first Android phone! I have been planning for some time to upgrade my super old iPhone because I needed an ssh client. Today a nice special ($560 -> $99) decided that my next phone will be a Samsung Galaxy SIII. BTW the offer at BestBuy lasts till 04/11/13. As a
NCLab Adopted by Dilworth STEM Academy in Reno
The Dilworth STEM Academy Middle School in Reno is excited to use NCLab for math, computer programming, and 3D design courses. “The increase in the WANT to learn went up tremendously in just one day” says Math Mentor Teacher Ms. Jennifer Jones.