Taking the 3D modeling course in NCLab will not only make you strong in geometry, but it will also develop your spatial reasoning skills. But what is that, exactly? When you google for “spatial reasoning”, you will find: “Spatial reasoning is a category of reasoning skills that refers to the capacity to think about
NCLab partnered with the Terry Lee Wells Discovery Museum in Reno to build a setting where kids can play with an engineering app to computationally test mechanical properties of materials. Click on the image to read the full article:
The next free coding workshop just for librarians will take place on March 3 at the Windmill Library in Las Vegas. Find details in the flyer below.
Watch a 45-minute webinar recording where NCLab’s Director of Education Sheila Bunch explains how to teach 3D modeling with NCLab:
In Issue 3 of the NCLab Newsletter you learned how to create Karel mazes. In the present lesson we will pick up where we left off, and explain how you can make your own Karel coding game. This is the maze that we built last time: Let’s switch back to the Programming Mode in the upper
There is no doubt that the World War II pushed forward the development of the digital computer. In the USA it was the need to calculate firing tables for artillery and later the atomic bomb simulations (see Issue 1, December 2016). In the UK it was the highly secret code cracking work of Alan Turing and his team
What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution, sometimes (inaccurately) called Industry 4.0 or just 4IR? Before we answer, let us take a step back. 1. Steam The First Industrial Revolution, or “Industrialization”, began in England in the late 18th century, following in the wake of James Watt and his steam engine (1774). Tasks previously done laboriously by
Karel has 10 columns of crates in front of him. He has to measure the height of the tallest column, and build an equally-tall column of light bulbs in front of his home square!
Full STEAM Ahead – Issue 3 (February 2017) We are excited to share the third issue of our 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
Attendees will receive CEU credit. Click on the image to get PDF file.