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Mr. Forde from Stamford, CT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Doing the Robot with my 6th Graders!

Help me give my students the tools (Spheros) necessary for an exciting robotics programming experience within our curriculum!

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Forde's classroom raised $1,469

This project is fully funded

My Students

Our middle school is an urban school in Stamford, CT. Our students are very diverse and have a +50% free and reduced lunch rate. The Stamford Public Schools have students that speak over 50 different languages and a significant ELL population.

The hard working kids of our middle school require support to improve our technology curricula in order to include robotics for all students during the school day.

This project would be exiting for the students and help develop computational thinking skills in an equitable manner.

Please help us communicate to these deserving students that they matter!

My Project

I am hoping to use the 8 Sphero robots to teach basic programming and computational thinking skills as part of my 6th grade technology curriculum.

I believe strongly that we need to deliver these skills to All students during the school day so that it is equitable and available to all.

The only way to develop these important thinking skills is to embed the use of these robots during the school day when ALL kids are available.

Help me deliver "cs4all" and light the fire of learning in my students and increase their love of STEM!

Thank you in advance for your support!!

Mr. Forde Scofield Magnet Middle School Grades 6-8

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.

Stamford, CT 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

220 students impacted 19donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sphero - BOLT • Best Buy Education $149.99 8 $1,199.92

Materials cost

$1,199.92

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$18.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,247.92

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$220.22

Total project goal

$1,468.14

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,468.14

16 Donors

-$1,055.00

Donations toward project cost

-$918.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$136.50

Matching donations from our partners

-$387.56

Match offers toward project cost

-$329.43

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.13

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$25.59

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 $0.00

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