Help me give my students the tools needed to build a rocket for the NASA SL rocketry competition! The proper tools and safety equipment will ensure a safe learning environment!
$441 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
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.
I teach aerospace engineering, civil engineering, and engineering design and presentation for a title 1 school in an economically disadvantaged area of San Antonio. I am also the mentor for the rocketry team. I am a teacher for the engineering magnet program at our school. Our students are very bright and have a fantastic work ethic. I couldn't ask for a more enthusiastic and eager group of individuals. We graduate students that are college and career-ready. The challenge is finding and funding projects that are as challenging as they are. San Antonio, TX, has a huge Hispanic population. Many of our students are at an economic disadvantage. We try to offset that by offering them opportunities that wouldn't be available to them otherwise. Engineering is an essential field, but it is an expensive one. We seek projects and activities that will pave a realistic path to the engineering field for all students regardless of their ability to pay for it.
My Project
The Engineering and Technologies Academy at our school is competing in both the Team America Rocketry Competition (TARC) and the NASA Student Launch (SL) rocketry competition. We are competing with some of the nation's most prestigious engineering universities.
First and foremost is safety.
I've made it a priority to update the lab that the students work in with a medical cabinet that will always be stocked with bandages and other first-aid materials. As an engineering teacher, I teach the students to plan smart and always know where to look for aid. We also take a first aid kit and fire extinguisher to all of our rocket launches.
The tools such as the sockets, multimeter, wire strippers, cordless drill, etc., will give the students invaluable hands-on experience with real tools. They will learn how modern tools work and use them for troubleshooting and building complex electronic systems on our dual-deployment rockets.
These supplies will give a group of mostly freshman and sophomores a boost in the competitions that they have dedicated so much time to this school year, and I look forward to competing for all the way into April! They will also be able to use this equipment to compete for years to come!
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