Help me give my students materials for our Junior Lego League program. We would love more WeDo2 kits and extra batteries.
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My Students
FIRST programs give our children the opportunity to check their personal challenges at the door. Over the seasons, we have seen our children flourish. We have seen children who have never belonged to a team grow into people who trust and value others' thoughts and opinions. We have seen children who have a strong sense of self learn to trust and value others' thoughts and opinions. We have seen children work to be autonomous in learning rather than simply learning from adults. We have seen children grow in solving problems and tasks. Best of all, we have seen children having fun!The children take their commitment to FIRST and the Core Values extremely seriously.
We have seven FIRST teams in our school of approximately 350 kids.
This year, 54 kids participated in FIRST Lego League or Jr. Lego League. Our principal has implemented the policy that every child who wants to participate may do so. We added two junior teams after the "students" applied to be on a team. Our FIRST teams include children identified as Gifted and Talented, Special Needs, and Twice-Exceptional. The kids make my job fun, and I couldn't be prouder to be a FIRST coach.
My Project
This project, "FIRST for ALL at Kingsley Elementary," was created to grow and enhance our FIRST program. The other coaches and I have a GOOD problem: We need more supplies to support our enthusiastic, hard-working children!
We also would like additional WeDo2 Core kits.
For the past two summers, we have implemented an annual "Robotics Summer Boot Camp." We are able to teach the kids basic programming so that they were ready to "hit the ground running" when school starts. We only had six WeDo2 kits for 30 kids. Additional WeDo2 Core Sets would allow us to give the kids more hands-on time. It would also allow the teams to build more than one robot to experiment with different ideas. (Our Girls Only team won the Robot Strategy and Innovation Award at the IA State FLL Competition!)
More than half of students from low‑income households
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