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Ms. Kessinger from Alexandria VA is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ozobots for Developing Computational Thinkers for Tomorrow

Help me give my students the opportunity to develop computational thinking skills while learning content, with a class set of Ozobots that can be used in any subject in any grade! The entire school will benefit from this!

  • 6 donors
  • $3,370 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate 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

With a class set of 18 Ozobots, I will create computer science-integrated curricular lessons for students at Mount Vernon in grades K-5 across subject areas. Ozobots are amazingly adaptable to every age, from pre-readers to those at an advanced skill level in reading and computational thinking. These tiny robots, loved by students for how "cute" they are, can follow lines as well as color codes created by students for activities such as escaping slavery on the Underground Railroad, correctly identifying the solution to a double-digit addition problem, or identifying short vowel sounds in CVC words. Ozobots can also connect via Bluetooth to an online block-based programming language, giving students crucial foundational learning in coding principles, to do things like react the way a character did to certain moments in the plot line of a story, or travel across a surface the ways a sound wave would through various states of matter.

Ozobots have a low barrier to entry, requiring no background knowledge from students to start learning computer science in class.

These amazing, versatile tools will allow me to provide enriching, project-based learning opportunities for all students at our school, integrating computer science and robotics into our daily curriculum to enhance students' learning in all subjects. Thank you for helping me provide this tool for the future, and for helping to build equity of learning opportunities for all M. School students!

Ms. Kessinger
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Ozobot Evo Robot Classroom Kit - 18 pack • Nasco $2,541.50 1 $2,541.50

Materials cost

$2,541.50

Vendor shipping charges

 $254.15

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$38.12

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,863.77

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$505.37

Total project goal

$3,369.14

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $3,369.14

4 Donors

-$1,684.56

Donations toward project cost

-$1,431.88

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$252.68

Matching donations from our partners

-$1,684.58

Match offers toward project cost

-$1,431.89

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$252.69

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 $0.00

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