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Ms. Swanby from Minneapolis, MN is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Expanding My Students' Minds With Coding and Programming Robotics

Help me give my students opportunities to have fun figuring out how to explore digital and robotic experiences.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Swanby's classroom raised $350

This project is fully funded

My Students

Students at our school are passionate about coding and programming. My students completed two lessons with Hour of Code and loved it. They loved trying to problem-solve to help the Fuzzy get through a maze. What they liked is they know they can tell the computer what to do to solve the problem.

My Kindergarten students loved telling Fuzzy in Kodable how to make it through a maze without hitting the wall.

They made mistakes but kept going back until the problem solved a solution to the maze.

My Project

This is a unique opportunity for our kids to explore, learn and have fun with robotics and digital materials. Students will love to figure out how to code a mouse. My students love to program the mouse to follow the maze they have created with the green tiles. They can try it and fix it again until they get it right. Students can then try harder mazes with bridges to go under. They can create more challenging mazes to program their mouse to follow.

My students will be excited to learn how to work as a team to make their projects work.

Robotics and coding are what they get excited about and what they are passionate about.

Thank you for giving our students such a great opportunity to grow as future scientists, engineers, and coders in the 21st century.

Ms. Swanby Bryn Mawr Community School Grades PreK-2

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Minneapolis, MN View local requests

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

160 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Code & Go® Robot Mouse Activity Set • AKJ Education $43.79 4 $175.16
Code & Go® Robot Mouse • AKJ Education $21.89 4 $87.56

Materials cost

$262.72

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.94

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$296.66

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$52.35

Total project goal

$349.01

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $349.01

3 Donors

-$175.00

Donations toward project cost

-$148.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.25

match offer

-$174.01

Match offer toward project cost

-$147.91

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.10

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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