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Mrs. Fontaine from Cohoes, NY is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Students Learn Coding with Robots and Drones!

Help me give my students drones, a coding robot ball, and robot for them to learn how to code through hands-on play and STEAM activities.

  • $1,028 goal

This project expired on January 19, 2025.

This project expired on January 19, 2025.

My Project

Help inspire my students’ to explore their creativity, coding skills, and inventiveness with drones, a robot, and Bolt coding sphere.

My students will learn the basics of coding at first, and eventually build up their skills to be able to race drones, program a robot to do basic tasks, and have a coding sphere follow a specific path through a maze.

When my students are learning coding skills, they are also reinforcing foundational math and literacy skills, which is laying the groundwork for more advanced learning. This will help them become lifelong learners.

Mrs. Fontaine Cohoes Middle School Grades 6-8

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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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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

Never Before Funded 25 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Robolink Codrone Edu • Ward's Science $266.89 2 $533.78
Sphero Bolt - Coding Robot Ball - Beginner to Advanced Programming - Ages 8+ - Learn to Code 3 Ways: Draw, Blocks, Javascript - Programmable Sensors - LED Matrix - Durable and Waterproof Design • Amazon Business $179.00 1 $179.00
Learning Resources Artie Max The Coding Robot • Kaplan Early Learning Company $117.86 1 $117.86

Materials cost

$830.64

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.46

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$873.10

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$154.08

Total project goal

$1,027.18

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