My students need robots to use in class and after school programs.
$2,196 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.
As a public high school in New York City without an admissions exam we have diverse students who need the physical representation of problem solving in order to understand and motivate them. This project will help excite and inspire our students as well as give them practice with concepts.
We are a public high school in New York with a 90% minority student population.
We do not require an admissions exam and do not select our students based on grades - this give us a diverse population with a variety of strengths and weaknesses. Students will not have the personal resources to purchase this equipment themselves so the school needs to provide it.
My Project
The robots we are requesting are specifically designed for education and can be used with a variety of programming languages (so as our curriculum changes so can our robot projects). They are sturdy and cost approximately 1/2 of standard robot kits because they are powered from the computer and not a battery pack. A large amount of free curriculum is also offered with the robots as well.
Many introductory computer science students drop out or do not take a second course because they do not see the connections between the code they write and it's implications.
Research at Georgia Tech shows that programs involving context (such as robots) have higher pass and retention rates, especially among women and minority students. As a diverse school this is VERY important to us.
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