Robotics Platform: Chromebooks to Bridge Codes to RoboKits
My students need Chromebooks that they can use in order to access the Arduino software so they can write their code, upload it to their boards, and make their projects come to life.
Our students come from very diverse backgrounds and abilities. The school currently has a school population of approximately 598 students in grades six through eight. We are a Title I school with a 2015-2016 ranking of 50.8%, signifying that about half of the student population is receiving free or reduced price lunch.
Students that go to the STEM Academy, particularly the Coding Class, are equipped with the interest and the perseverance to go out of their comfort zones and explore something that interests them but have not had opportunities created for them.
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Our school does a great job in getting students to select their homeroom class with their interests and strengths in mind. This is made possible through the academy system, and STEM Academy is one of the most popular ones, owing to the growing interest in computer science and its multitude of applications, including robotics.
The Coding Class at our middle school has made great strides in just two years since it was created from doing merely block programming.
It ventured into a few other programming languages and Arduino and Lego Mindstorm robotic projects. We are just entering our third year and our students have already accomplished a lot.
The additional Chromebooks will increase the existing Chromebook units we acquired also through DonorsChoose, and will significantly bring the ratio down, giving more opportunities for students to code and apply their code to their Arduino kits and creating their machines and prototypes.
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