Coding IS Our Superpower! Wonder League Competition Dash Robot
My students need 3 more Dash Robots so that one Dash Robot will be in the hands of ALL 7 competition teams at our school. We will share the Dot Robots and Accessory Packs.
$548 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.
Our school is designated as a Title I school. Our students come from several countries.
Our kids are so motivated about computer coding that they stay two hours late on Fridays!
Our Code Club is half girls and half boys, with 90% classified as minority students. Almost all of our students come to our school as English Language Learners. The upper grade students are now bilingual and 40% of coders tested into the gifted program.
Several students were so motivated to learn coding, they coded on their own over the summer, using a free Internet-based coding curriculum. Many had to get creative securing Internet access. Several students report having no access or sporadic access at home, so they code on public library-computers, or only code at school.
Our school is a Traditional Theme School. This means we have very high parent involvement, offer a multitude of extracurricular activities including Code Club, translate all paperwork into at least Spanish, and are working toward our school-wide STEM certification this year. Code Club is a part of STEM Certification.
My Project
Our Code Club just had had a project funded on Donor's Choose, allowing 4 of the 7 teams to begin coding for the Wonder Workshop Dash Robot Competition.
Learning to code can reduce the inequality gap for students of color, girls, and second language learners - our students!
Coding in elementary school will give these kids a marketable skill that is adaptable to whatever comes next. By the time these kids get to college, they will have been coding for seven to ten years!
Coding is also learning how to think in a new way, about science and math but also what is possible. Because the world is changing so much, teaching a skill that is adaptable and enabling is monumentally beneficial to these students. Learning how to code will improve their school and home lives immensely by exposing them to technology their parents and older relatives have never seen. Learning to code also elevates our students from mere consumers to producers and creators. Creating and producing is empowering but also one of the highest levels of thinking. Computer coding unlocks doors, making the impossible possible.
We are using existing tablets. We will share the Accessories Pack, Launcher, and Dot for missions. We are up-cycling and creating by hand competition mats, props, and costumes. The kids are keeping paper STEM journals of their processes for each mission.
We are leveraging existing tech in our school, a few hand-me-down tablets, and free online training resources to learn how to computer code in Javascript using Blockly in preparation for the international, online competition.
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