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Mr. Southwick from San Antonio, TX is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Coding Robots in Our Lego Built Community

Help me give my students the opportunity to create and test code using the Sphero Mini Coding Robot Ball in 3-D environments that they have planned and created using Legos.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Southwick's classroom raised $579

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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 Project

Students have always loved the idea of robots and how they exist within our world. Students will often enjoy programming character (sprites) on a web-site simulation but do not always get to create code that guides a real robot in a 3-D environment. I have students that are constantly drawing robots with wheels, lasers, or other dramatic attachments. The creativity of the students is wonderful to witness, especially when it inspires other students to add their own ideas either to the robot or to how the robot's environment may need to change with or because of the robot.

I am requesting a set of Sphero Mini Coding Robot Balls and Legos to create 3-D environments for the Spheros to navigate in.

This particular activity will allow teams of students to examine and create a community environment that will utilize a robot. What will its role be here? How will the robot work in the community? What are the needs of the community?-- Questions like these may be addressed by the students. What I really enjoy is the students' thoughts and questions and solutions that the students will come up with. At the end of the project the students will share their creations and allow other students' communities to visit their community and hopefully share their findings and creations, inspiring and being inspired by others.

Mr. Southwick H.B. Gonzalez Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all 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

350 students impacted 1donor

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sphero Mini (Blue) - Coding Robot Ball - Educational Coding and Gaming for Kids and Teens - Bluetooth Connectivity - Interactive and Fun Learning Experience for Ages 8+ • Amazon Business $64.78 6 $388.68
LEGO Classic Large Creative Brick Box 10698 Building Toy Set, Toy Storage Solution for Home or Classrooms, Interactive Building Toy for Kids, Boys, and Girls • Amazon Business $33.12 2 $66.24

Materials cost

$454.92

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.82

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$491.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$86.78

Total project goal

$578.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $578.52

1 Donor

-$491.74

Donations toward project cost

-$491.74

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$86.78

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 $0.00

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