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Mr. Castro from Renton, WA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Build and Design for a Better Future

My students need these materials to help support their understanding with engineering design and being ready for the world ahead. We need Lego.

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate 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 Students

My students are coming from diverse backgrounds around the surrounding community which is ever changing. I want to provide my students with the ability to integrate technology in a creative way that can express their great engineering design and never letting that creativity die. I want them to achieve greatness and have the opportunity to strive and test out different skills to find what they love to do and have fun while doing it.

My class is comprised of 33 bright learners who come from different aspects of life and come from a variety of places in the world.

Many of my students are classified as English Language Learners (ELL). I want to provide my students with the chance to not just think about the Model & Design process but be able to give tasks and challenging questions and give the chance to show how they would solve the problem and put it to the test. I want them to feel that they can do anything with a great idea and use resources to help make that creation possible.

My Project

If we are able to have these Lego WeDo kits within our classroom, we are able to enhance understanding of how the engineering design process works along with being able to think of real-world problems and situations and think outside of the box on how we can create, design, and model/program how that tool will help society. The idea behind the Lego WeDo kits is to prompt students with real-world problems and showing them how to use the engineering process to be able to design a way to solve their problem, draft it, then use the LEGO kits to create a model using the model along with create a code in the program to be able to design the function of what the machine will do to solve the problem/task at hand.

This project will put a different view lens on how STEM & Technology play a huge role in our society.

It allows my student to not just design, but create and bring their ideas to life which sparks learning and engages them in understanding that anything is possible when you put your mind to it.

With adding the LEGO WeDo 2.0 kits to my classroom, it will allow my students to have a different view on the engineering design process along with giving them coding practice in creating, modeling, and design coding and expanding their learning in a more creative way that will align with the 21st century. It will also support their learning that is geared towards the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

Mr. Castro Benson Hill Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Renton, WA View local requests

More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

33 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 Core Set 45300 • Amazon Business $229.95 4 $919.80

Materials cost

$919.80

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $80.48

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.80

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,044.08

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$184.25

Total project goal

$1,228.33

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,228.33

8 Donors

-$614.16

Donations toward project cost

-$522.04

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$92.12

match offer

-$614.16

Match offer toward project cost

-$522.04

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$92.12

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