This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
About My Students
Zoe, Jacob, Minnesota, Omarion, and Beau want to lead their First Lego League team to victory next year. These students worked hard this past competition season and, even though they came away with no huge trophies, they are still confident that they can make the team stronger. Each of these students displays qualities that form a resilient team.
Zoe is the peacemaker. She's always the first to step in and offer an alternative solution if there is conflict. Jacob handles public relations. He makes business calls and advocates for the team's visibility within the community. Minnesota is the builder. He has no trouble building the models from the challenge set. Omarion is the programmer. He is able to reconfigure the codes quickly as he demonstrated at the local qualifiers. Beau is the creative thinker. He knows how to take an idea and make it stand out.
These students are eager to do better for next competition season and they're even more eager to get the community involved.
My students are hoping to make it to the FIRST Lego League state tournament next season. In FLL, students are not only developing math and science skills through robot programming, but they also learn communication and team-building skills through the real-world project they must complete.
FIRST Lego League provides many educational resources that help our students better understand the science or mathematics behind the problem that is provided. The team must find an innovative solution to that problem. They must also present their research and solutions to the public which increases their communications skills.
In Their Own Words
We want to do better than we did during our last competition season. Because we only had one working laptop and very little funding (it was our first year as a team), we had to choose between working on our project or programming our robot. This made it harder for us to be successful in our competition. We requested two laptops so we can all work on solving the issue and programming the robot at the same time.
Last year, the only laptop we had access to was our teacher's, so she kept up with most of our work. This year, we want to display agency by being responsible for the technology provided to our team. We want to be able to assign different roles so each team member is actively doing something rather than waiting for someone else to finish with the computer.
FIRST Lego League has helped increase our interest in science and technology and we think it will do the same for other students. We are able to present our research and solutions to our community which has made us better speakers. We hope that this project will strengthen the robotics program at our school and encourage others to join.
FlashForge 3D Printers, New Model: Finder
• Amazon Business
$399.00
1
$399.00
RCA Viking Pro 10" 2-in-1 Tablet 32GB Quad Core Blue Laptop Computer with Touchscreen and Detachable Keyboard Google Android 5.0 Lollipop l
• Amazon Business
$101.50
2
$203.00
Materials cost
$602.00
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$49.66
3rd party payment processing fee
$9.03
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$690.69
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$121.89
Total project goal
$812.58
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$812.58
3 Donors
-$809.05
Donations toward project cost
-$690.69
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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