Materials for an Engineering Program at a High Needs School
My students need banana to minigrabber cables to hook up to digital multimeters in order to read resistance, current, and voltage for a computer engineering program
I have 20+ urban high-needs students are willing to stay after school to learn college level math/science and do extra homework! The majority of these students are freshman! What more do I need to say? Many of them even take their toolboxes home to work on projects in their free time! How cool is that?
Practically all of my students come from low income homes and every one of them is a minority.
The majority of students in my engineering club are freshmen. In terms of personality, they are awesome. The group is highly motivated and excited about learning computer engineering. One of the main driving factors for my students to join this club is to see if they are able to handle college-level course work. The club is literally an extra class for the students. Each non-lab day, we are learning the academics needed to function as a computer engineer. The students are willing to do extra course work and additional homework. All of them aspire to be in amazing professions and I want to do my best to make sure they have a good step forward. The kids really deserve it. They deserve a chance.
My Project
Thanks to Donorschoose, fundraisers, and other donations, I was able to purchase ten digital multimeters (DMMs) for my classroom.
In order to use these DMMs, my students need cables that they can use with their circuits. Because of this, I wanted to purchase a class set of banana to minigrabber cables.
It is important for students to learn how to use a digital bench multi-meters since this is what they often have in industry and in college. Since the goal of my course is to boost student understanding, build hard skills applicable in the real world, and prepare students for college, I am really pushing for my students to use these DMMs and we need the cables for them. On top of the skills they would learn, quality multi-meters are incredibly important for troubleshooting and safety.
Having taught engineering in college, I have created an after school program geared towards helping high needs students prepare for college-level electronics and computer engineering courses.
The curriculum focuses on the math/science related to the electronics as well as teaching students real-world applications. By the end of the club, students will have a great portfolio to show colleges, be able to get basic electronics jobs, and have a head start on engineering curriculum.
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