RoboDawgs Computer Aided Design and Fabrication Part 2
My students need a high-end laptop computer.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Evele's classroom raised $725
This project is fully funded
My Students
Our goal is to give students skills and experiences in high school that prepare them to have a competitive edge at the university level as they pursue engineering or other STEM degrees. Our CNC program teaches students to use 3D CAM/CAD software to design useful objects such a robot parts.
Our students are an excellent cross-section of our school.
On our robotics team, we have students who are high achieving honors students, and we also have students who are high achieving special education students. Our high school is a suburban Michigan school of about 1800 students.
My Project
The resource we are requesting, the second of two high-end laptop computers, will allow students to gain experience in 3D CAD (Computer Aided Design) and CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) software. At the high school level, technology classes teach students how to draw mechanical parts in 3D. However, in the real world of engineering, what is drawn on the computer is not always possible for the computer controlled (CNC) mill to fabricate. In other words, there is often a significant disconnect between what is taught in school and what is actually required to engineer precision mechanical parts. Our goal is to take students through the full process of creating a mechanical part from the initial idea, to the 3D design, to the fabrication of a physical part. This is an experience formerly reserved for college upperclassmen. We would like to make this experience part of the our students' high school education.
Students in our high school robotics program soon discover that they can accomplish much more than they ever dreamed.
They realize that careers, which at first seemed too technical or too difficult, are certainly within their grasp. Our program opens doors of opportunity to students as they come to understand their own potential. This requested resource will bring us closer to this ideal by allowing us to show students that real engineering is a combination of science, technology and art.
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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