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Mrs. Arita from Ewa Beach, HI is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Programming With Bee-Bots

Help me give my students hands-on coding tools to learn early programming skills

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Arita's classroom raised $979

This project is fully funded

My Project

We want to get our youngest students at Holomua started in programming! The Bee-Bot's simple and child friendly layout is a perfect starting point for teaching control, directional language and programming to young students. It is a hands-on and interesting way to get our students to understand how robots and computers are programmed at a basic level. The Bee-Bots are small robots with directional input buttons on the top of them. A student must press the buttons for the directions first, hit go and watch as the Bee-Bot buzzes off on its journey based on what has been pressed. This input mirrors the basic programming language used in programs such as Scratch, which the older students at the school are introduced to.

Having the Bee-Bots in our school would enable students in Kindergarten to 2nd grade to think critically and use problem solving techniques while interacting with robotics.

Computer programming and coding develops students’ computational and critical thinking skills and shows them how to create rather than simply use new technologies.

Mrs. Arita Holomua Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Ewa Beach, HI View local requests

More than a third 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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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
BT363 - Bee-Bot<sup>&reg;</sup> Programmable Robot • Lakeshore Learning Materials $99.50 6 $597.00
TT760 - Learn to Code File Folder Games - K-Gr 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 4 $159.96

Materials cost

$756.96

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $33.31

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.35

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$831.62

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$146.76

Total project goal

$978.38

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $978.38

1 Donor

-$978.38

Donations toward project cost

-$831.62

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$146.76

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