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Ms. Scaletti from Gaithersburg, MD is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Creating a Buzz, Coding with Bee-Bots

Help me give my students a class set of Bee-Bots to learn basic coding skills!

  • $807 goal

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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 first graders are a diverse group of learners. They love to collaborate and learn in interactive ways, whether that be with the teacher, with a group of other students, or by interacting with technology.

Most of the students in my class come from low-income​ households and do not have access to technology in their homes.

Because of this, they look forward to and are motivated by any chance they have to use and interact with technology in the classroom.

My Project

My students will use these Bee-Bots to practice basic programming skills that will help to get them ready for an increasingly technological world.

My students will love using the Bee-Bots to help them learn directionality, problem solving, estimating and sequencing.

They will work together to read and write simple code to make their Bee-Bots move on a grid, through mazes, etc.

These Bee-Bots will also be used to help make math and literacy centers exciting and interactive. Students can solve a problem and direct their Bee-Bots to move to the correct answer on the grid.

Ms. Scaletti Whetstone Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Gaithersburg, MD 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

19 students impacted 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
BT363 - Bee-Bot® Programmable Robot • Lakeshore Learning Materials $79.99 7 $559.93
Bee-Bot(r) Docking Station • Kaplan Early Learning Company $49.95 1 $49.95

Materials cost

$609.88

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$36.59

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.15

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$685.62

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$120.99

Total project goal

$806.61

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$806.61

4 Donors

-$467.51

Donations toward project cost

-$440.12

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.39

match offer

-$288.82

Match offer toward project cost

-$245.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.32

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$50.28

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$0.00

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