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.
My Students
Raise your hand if you love robots! Who doesn't remember daydreaming about a robot they could build to do their dreaded chores?
My students are energetic little kindergarteners who love to be challenged.
I teach coding to my kindergarteners every year. Yes, you read that correctly; 4 and 5-year-olds can learn computer programming (coding). How you ask? By engaging them through a series of lessons that are bite-sized for them. Teach them step by step how to program a robot.
My Project
My students already enjoy coding with tablets and practice moving characters on a screen with basic codes. Can you imagine how excited and engaged the students would be if the codes they wrote on the iPads controlled robots. Dash and Dot would do exactly that! You can program the robots to go anywhere you'd like. They would be able to challenge themselves by building obstacle courses and having their robots go all the way through without crashing.
Many of my students come from poverty-stricken households.
I want to give my students the best education I can to give them a fighting chance to overcome the many negative statistics that plague my students. Robots can do just that. Please support us on our journey to engage students in STEM.
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
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