Our Computer Scientists & Technical Writers Need Computers!
My students need 10 laptop computers for the Computer Science & Software Engineering course.
$5,435 goal
This project expired on April 3, 2015.
This project expired on April 3, 2015.
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
In this course, students create apps for mobile devices, automate tasks in a variety of languages, and find patterns in data. Students work together to come up with solutions that can improve people’s lives, and consider the ethical issues of how computing and connectivity are changing the world.
Our school is a Title 1 school (predominately low income), in an urban area, with a very diverse student population.
This cohort of students have chosen an engineering pathway, so during their four years in high school, they will take an engineering elective each year, along with the courses needed to be admitted into a University of California or California State University. In our program we strive to create cross-curricular projects with authentic application in the real world. These students are motivated to learn, and most expect to go on to a college and perhaps study for a career in science or technology.
Our program is new, so we are offering Computer Science & Software Engineering for the first time. We cannot teach this course without computers! Your contribution will help students master essential 21st Century computing skills, and work across the disciplines to build their STEM portfolios.
My Project
The name says it all – you can’t teach computer science without computers! Ideally, one computer for every student, with the ability for other disciplines in our cohort to access computers for cross-curricular projects. We have fought tooth and nail to acquire eight computers, and we just need 30 more, because, believe it or not, our class sizes are that big!
Our students have applied to be part of a STEM magnet because they are interested in science and technology, and our magnet offers two pathways: biomedical science and engineering. In this computer science course, students create apps for mobile devices, automate tasks in a variety of languages, and find patterns in data. Students work together to come up with solutions that can improve people’s lives, and consider the ethical issues of how computing and connectivity are changing the world. We know that students learn most if they are engaged, and our curriculum, using software and data, gets them focused and interested.
This donation will help the 38 students in each elective have a hands-on experience in computer science, as well as allow cross-curricular projects to connect to other disciplines in our program.
It is our goal to make this course the highlight of the engineering curriculum as well as increasing the participation of women and underrepresented students of color in computer science.
Our students can achieve great things, and they can be better prepared with your assistance.
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