My students need one LEGO Mindstorms kit, a Pitsco Hydraulic Arm, a Quadcopter with HD camera and one OWI Robotic Arm Edge.
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My Students
This program started as an after-school club activity that has mushroomed into a full course for our upcoming 6th graders. At the conclusion of school students camp outside my room twice a week eager to build and program their robots. We are the "Spotted Engineers" named after our leopard mascot.
We service a diverse group of student from different ethnic backgrounds.
Our student population is, for the most part, underrepresented, minority, low income children with a sizable group of second generation immigrants. Our school prepares students from pre-K to grade 8th.
Our Robotic Club is seventy percent female primarily with students in grades 5th and 6th. We have a competitive science department whose goal is to engage students in hands-on and collaborative learning. Hence, our students are highly motivated and competitive in the area of science and math. We also offer various other after school activities to our students, and our robotic club is one of the few in the community. In our club, we engaged students in student-directed inquiry projects that serve to enrich their experience and knowledge of STEM and deepens their technological awareness. Our recent successes in robotic competition have renewed our resolve to challenge our students by exposing them to different robotic platforms and programming software.
My Project
We'll use these requested LEGO Mindstorms kit, a Pitsco Hydraulic Arm, a Quadcopter with HD camera and OWI Robotic Arm Edge for robot building projects that will engage students in inquiry based learning activities. These activities challenge students to use their own experience and problem solving skills while creating a collaborative and encouraging learning environment where thinking is visible.
This initiative will provide minority students with a multi-sensory experience that will help increase their engineering and problem solving skills to the point where they can create machines that can resolve everyday problems. Moreover, materials use in this program will permit disadvantaged students to stay on pace with their peers so that they can continue learning in a less restrictive and more engaging, technologically equipped environment. With these resources we hope to foster creativity thus returning purpose to learning.
one LEGO Mindstorms kit, a Pitsco Hydraulic Arm, a Quadcopter with HD camera and one OWI Robotic Arm Edge.
Access to adequate materials has been a limiting factor to the number of students we can service in our club.
Ideally, one kit for every two students would afford everyone the opportunity to practice and gain real-world knowledge. Also, our ability to expose students to different platforms upon which they can construct different types of automation has been affected; hence, having samples of these would broaden their visions and their perspective. Funding received will facilitate this process.
More than half 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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