We need a competition field for our Rookie Robotics club being started by three sophomore girls. The robots need to have a practice area so our team can be prepared for the season!
$2,184 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
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.
In 2018-19, three young ladies from my school decided to form a FIRST Technical Challenge team. Each of the ladies joined the school's FIRST Robotics Competition team but were relocated to taking inventory and cleaning the shop. Toward the build season (6 weeks), one mentor took the ladies aside and began teaching them how to code the robot. From there, they sought to increase involvement and asked if it were possible to form a new team that was a smaller investment so more students could get involved.
The school agreed to back the fledgling team and together, Kenna, Stephanie, and Zoe are founding a rookie FTC team. They have already organized outreaches to local middle school students who will be freshmen this fall and managed to raise enough funds to buy parts for a "starter" robot.
The kick-off will be September 8, 2018 and the ladies are anxious to build test robots and demonstrate them for the entire school.
Each of the founding members of the team wanted to program on last year's FIRST Robotics Competition team but as freshmen weren't able to do so. They want to learn programming from start to finish and bring robotics to every student in the school. As a team, they have held two outreach events to encourage new students to the school to join robotics. The robot(s) just need a field on which to practice!
In Their Own Words
We will broadcast to the entire student population that we have a robotics team which is inclusive, tolerant, and exciting! Starting with just us 3 girls is a challenge that we are willing to take on. The administration is behind us and we hope to grow our team until we need more teams!
Rookie teams have little support so we do community outreaches and organizing them takes a lot of cooperation and coordination. These are skills that leaders need. We have been scheduling facilities, arranging transportation, advertising, and sending invitations well in advance so students can put our activities on their calendar and actually attend!
FIRST Tech Challenge robots do activities on a square field autonomously (They're preprogrammed and not driven.). We have raised the money for the robots themselves and the registration/competition fees but have no place to practice the missions. Having a portable field would help us fine-tune our missions because the dimensions will be correct.
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
DonorsChoose is the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.
As a teacher-founded nonprofit, we're trusted by thousands of teachers and supporters across the country. This classroom request for funding was created by Dr. Perez and reviewed by the DonorsChoose team.
