My students need aluminum and metalworking tools for cutting and forming robot parts.
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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 Students
My students have worked hard to build competition robots using hand tools, and I'd like to give them access to proper metalworking tools.
The roughly 700, mostly (91%) Latino students in grades 9 and 10 attend our school at the southern tip of the city of Los Angeles.
Surrounded by several refineries and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the school serves a blue-collar, working class community with a substantially (70%) economically-disadvantaged population. The majority of our parents work for these industries and others in the Los Angeles industrial harbor vicinity.
My Project
Robotics competition is rapidly growing as a method for teaching students to apply skills in and knowledge of mathematics and science and engineering practices through designing, manufacturing, and programming a working machine. The students on my Robotics team will use this aluminum and these tools to shape and form frames, brackets, body panels, and other parts for a robot to enter in the FIRST Robotics Competition.
Most of my students have no experience working with hand tools.
As Career Tech Education has declined, few high school students have any opportunity to learn to work with tools. Few programs provide the types of experiences and opportunities students routinely take advantage of in Robotics competition. Your donation will provide tools and materials that will reduce limitations on design. It will provide them with opportunities to learn to safely work with tools and the satisfaction of making.
Nearly all 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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