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Mrs. Carlson from Royal City WA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Tiny Rural Town - Powerhouse Robotics Team - Part 4

Help me give my students two LEGO SPIKE Prime Expansion sets to expand our robotics program.

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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 Project

Despite our rural school district's small size and limited resources, we love robotics. Over 80% of our school children are of Hispanic descent, and many of them are English Language Learners. Our robotics team reflects this diversity as well. Our teams welcome students of all ability levels from special-ed through our gifted program and everyone in between.

Participation in our after-school robotics program changes the trajectory of our students' lives by giving them a glimpse of the wide variety of career options and giving them 21st-century programming and job skills.

Our school sponsors 4-5 FIRST LEGO League Robotics (FLL) teams each year. Since we began 7 years ago, we have been fortunate enough to send at least 2 of our teams to the State competition every year. FLL has switched from the older EV3 robot to the newer SPIKE Prime robots, so we are working on updating our robot fleet. The expansion sets requested will complement the base sets previously donated to us through DonorsChoose.org donors.

Kids join robotics because they think robots sound fun, but they get so much more! Our novice students quickly become experts in computer coding, but, more importantly, they learn the cooperation, critical thinking, leadership, and presentation skills applicable to all their future learning.

We can't give all the credit to the robots. The FIRST Robotics program is an amazing force for building positive life skills in our students, but we can't run the program without the robots.

Coaching robotics is one of the best parts of my job because I get to see my inexperienced students transform into confident leaders interested in pursuing computer coding and engineering as careers. Many of their parents work in agricultural jobs, and participating in robotics opens their eyes to many technical careers they had not previously considered.

Mrs. Carlson
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
LEGO Education SPIKE Prime Expansion Set • LEGO Education $139.95 2 $279.90

Materials cost

$279.90

Vendor shipping charges

 $15.00

Sales tax

 $24.49

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.20

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$353.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$62.40

Total project goal

$415.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $415.99

3 Donors

-$30.00

Donations toward project cost

-$29.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.75

Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation match offer

-$30.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$25.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$4.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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 $351.58

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