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Mr. Mincey from Tampa FL is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The CODE for a Successful Future

Help me give my students by supplementing their two-dimensional coding experience with the three-dimensional logic of coding with Edison Robots.

  • $782 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

I am a 5th grade ELA teacher at a Title I school (90%+ free/reduced lunch, 98% minority) in the inner city of Tampa, FL. This year's 4th & 5th graders scored 20% proficiency in reading last year. In this challenging environment, education isn't a high priority - existence is. In conversations with them, some don’t believe education is a means to a positive future, others don’t aspire to be more than they currently are. Most tend don't work up to their capability. The truth, however, is that they are intelligent and resourceful individuals who've overcome obstacles I would've shuddered to face as a student. The ability for academic success exists within them, we need to help them find it.

The goal of this project is to inspire these students to discard their "academic apathy" and forge ahead to a future filled with promise and purpose.

My Project

Help me give my students experience in the logic of coding with the Edison Robots. Coupled with the code.org courses, this two-pronged technology program equips students with vital thinking and reasoning skills, which are applicable in reading and math as well. Code.org uses a block-style coding structure embedded in computer games (Angry Birds will be the first one). The students alter code by connecting the appropriate blocks in the appropriate sequence to get the bird to capture the pig (Angry Birds). The complexity increases with each level in the distance the bird must travel, the varying course options and the obstacles the bird must overcome. There is an efficiency factor as well, where students need to complete the program in a limited amount of lines of code. They are even awarded a higher score for using fewer lines of code. As they progress through the 18 Lesson course, I'll allow work on the robots that correspond with the lessons. In the two years I've used it in my previous school, the students who embraced it were successful. There are limitations to Code.org, however.

Mr. Mincey
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
KIT EDISON ROBOT PACK OF 10 • Frey Scientific $558.55 1 $558.55

Materials cost

$558.55

Vendor shipping charges

 $67.03

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.38

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$663.96

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$117.17

Total project goal

$781.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $781.13

5 Donors

-$465.56

Donations toward project cost

-$395.73

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$69.83

match offer

-$315.56

Match offer toward project cost

-$268.23

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$47.33

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