Manzanita Students Go Digital: Using Raspberry Pi3 Units
My students need 22 Raspberry Pi3 kits to explore coding and programming concepts.
$1,897 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 STEM teacher in a low-income/high poverty school district, my students are faced with Technology Access challenges. Despite the many barriers they face, my goal is to ensure that this generation of Centennials have access to both the hardware/software needs to address the Digital Divide.
Many of my students already are exposed to digital technology through Smartphone/Gaming Consoles, but yet can't afford much of the equipment.
Many of them are being raised in single parent households and receive a free lunch based on their socioeconomic status. These things may prevent them from getting ahead in life and becoming model citizens and role models in their community. While in the STEM Class the students key focus will be on what "Technology Can Do For Them".
My Project
In a world where blue collar jobs are falling every day to automation, in a world where robots are slowly taking over menial, hard-working and dangerous tasks, understanding how these machines work and how to program and repair them is already an important job.
The donations to this project will help to improve my students' understanding of and competency in the world of coding, and further developing their skill set in two programming languages, SCRATCH & PYTHON.
By implementing this project will further promote the teaching of basic computer science in our school and allow my students to begin to see themselves as life-long coders. As the teacher, I have done extensive research and reading on the Raspberry Pi3 units and truly need your support to make this a reality. Children being born in 2015 will be graduating into a world of domestic and industrial robots. Even with the intention to study other subjects, and having a grounding in software development and computing will be as useful in day-to-day life as math.
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