Dear STEAM Coders and Makers, We are excited to share the fourth issue of our monthly newsletter Full STEAM Ahead. The newsletter delivers messages from prominent personalities, comments on recent developments as well as on the exciting history of computing, brings updates from schools and libraries, presents tutorials and short courses on various computing subjects,
Our team spent this Saturday in Las Vegas, training NV Ready 21 educators and coaches in coding and 3D modeling. It was once again obvious that in-person training is so much more efficient that a webinar. It was an awesome day, and we are ready to visit the individual schools for follow-up workshops! Sheila explains
The NCLab Team is pleased to announce the release of new versions of the free game-based coding and 3D modeling courses. Visit Teachers page to request your free professional development license! Major improvements include dozens of self-graded quizzes and performance tasks (creative projects) matching NGSS standards. In addition, we have implemented many other improvements based on instructor
We just love working with librarians! It always is so energizing and fun. Today we had the opportunity to help about 15 new Clark County and Tonopah librarians explore NCLab’s Virtual Desktop, Creative Suite, and game-based Karel, Turtle and 3D Modeling courses. Sheila explains the principles of game-based learning: Cool ticket with QR code! Since
Today we visited the German International School of Pretoria, South Africa. This is the SA capital’s distinguished K-12 school which has a long tradition of excellence in robotics and other STEM areas. The principal Mr. Clevens and STEM teachers find NCLab courses superior to other products on the market. The school is going to use
In the article about John von Neumann we mentioned that he invented the Monte Carlo method. This method is very simple in its nature. It uses the “brute force” of computing to solve a wide range of problems. It performs many (thousands of) trials to infer results such as areas or volumes of complex objects,
If one scans the pages of computer history, the name John Von Neumann turns up at so many places that it seem unbelievable that this could be the work of only one man. Besides inventing game theory, cellular automata, the Monte Carlo method, and putting down the foundations of quantum mechanics, he invented the computer
We are pleased to announce that, after several months of work, new versions of the Karel, Turtle and 3D Modeling courses were finally released. The original Karel, Turtle and 3D Modeling courses will remain available until the end of June 2017. Quizzes The game levels in the new courses remained almost intact, because not many
by Brian Crosby, STEM Training Facilitator, Northwest Nevada Regional Professional Development Program In my role as PreK – 12 STEM Learning Facilitator for northwest Nevada I applied for and received a Nevada College and Career Ready grant to support learning in computer science and Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles (UAVs). Both fields are vital for Nevada’s future in
By Camille Stegman, Executive Director, Nevada STEM Coalition As the 21 st century opened for Nevada, we found ourselves with a new and different economy. This new economy will be requiring Nevada’s young students to develop skills necessary for new industries, such as renewable power, computer automation, drones, and yet to be discovered aptitudes. In