My students need the Lego Mindstorms EV3 robotics kits to compete in our county robotics competition.
$1,114 goal
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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.
My classroom is filled with brilliant young minds, who have an intense focus on getting to college.
Many of my students will be the first in their family to attend college.
My school, RCP is a public charter school that primarily serves students from the Roseland community in Santa Rosa, California. RCP is a Title I school, with a focus on college readiness for our students.
In October our high school building was lost in the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa. In addition to losing my entire classroom of teaching materials, we lost all of our robotics material (Lego kits and computers). We are fortunate that we have a location within our district to house our school while we rebuild, but it has been a slow process re-supplying our classroom materials. The county robotics competition happens in the spring, and my Robotics and Tech Club happens once a week all year long. I'd love to get these materials back in the hands of my students!
My Project
In addition to teaching math, I run a Robotics and Tech Club for the high school students, and a STEM Club for our middle school students. Our middle school students compete in the Sonoma County Robotics Challenge each year, and I also use the robotics kits for my high school club, as well as my math classes.
We lost all of our robotics equipment in the Tubbs fire in October.
Not only do I use this for our clubs, but I have enjoyed integrating programming and robotics into some of my math classes - especially my class of students repeating 9th grade math. The Lego robotics really caught their attention, and gave them something to apply the math to that was tangible and fun.
Lost in the fire was one EV3 kit, and about 8 of the older Lego NXT models which are no longer in production. I'm hoping to upgrade to at least two of the EV3 kits, as that is what most of the other schools use in competition.
Learning to program is a skill that I believe will soon be required for most of our jobs in the future. The Lego Mindstorms kits allow students to learn these skills in a fun way.
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