Help me give my students an illuminated vision of the future world of robotics engineering.
$826 goal
This project expired on July 1, 2022.
This project expired on July 1, 2022.
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.
My Project
As Isaac Asimov once said, "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all." Literacy is paramount in all disciplines, but none more so than robotics. The robotics revolution is poised to disrupt all aspects of our society. It is through higher levels of literacy that we will prepare for the coming societal shift.
By building a library of science fiction resources to be housed here in the robotics lab at CTEC, students will actively investigate human-robot interactions and ethics, the socioeconomic ramifications of robots on hypothetical communities, and a future that may be more probable than previously assumed.
I am the robotics engineering instructor at the Career Technical Education Center (CTEC) which serves as the primary CTE pathway for the Kern High School District. I sit on the literacy council where I spend my off-hours strategizing plans to combat illiteracy in our student population. Many of the students we serve come from Spanish-speaking households and are English language learners. "An estimated 11 million U.S. adults lack the literacy skills to perform everyday tasks, while an increasing number of Hispanics struggle to do more than sign a form in English, a federal survey shows." (Houston Chronicle)
The aim of this project will be to provide reading materials and resources to students from this eclectic population of learners in the school district. Through daily reading activities across a 40 week school year, students will begin and complete multiple books in an effort to combat this growing illiteracy epidemic in California.
More than three‑quarters of 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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