My students need acrylic sheets to use in the laser cutter to make their ideas and some additional literature to help them understand the making process.
$268 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.
My design classroom is a high energy environment that focuses on teaching critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity to our future engineers, fashion designers, chefs, architects, and computer scientists through various real world STEAM projects. My design students are in grades 6-8th, and all reside within a city of Illinois. A majority of them come from underprivileged neighborhoods with high rates of poverty. Over 90% of our students come from low-income families. We are a Title I school.
My young designers are extremely creative and the sky is their only limit.
Since the beginning of the Design program at my school, I have seen these students overcome many challenges and persevere through the hardest projects. They do it with a smile on their face because they greatly appreciate all of the learning opportunities that they have through the IB curriculum and MYP Design program at our school.
Their approach to creating and innovating is truly inspiring as they are not afraid to let go and always dive right in. In the end, they always end up with amazing products and solutions that showcase their Design Thinking and outstanding technical skills.
My Project
Last year, after intense fundraising efforts we were able to add laser cutting to our studio. Very quickly students became interested in the laser cutting technology and explored various materials that they can use with it. The cast acrylic sheets were in such demand that we completely ran out of them in less than a week.
Going into new year I would like to replenish and stock more materials that students enjoy working with everyday.
The cast acrylic sheets are definitively one of those materials, but their cost is way too high so we can't afford them out of our operating budget. We are hoping to get some from this project and allow students to make more products made out of acrylic while they continue to build their understanding and learn more about the capabilities of the laser cutting technology. The books included in this project will enable them to better understand the design process and will helps students to get more inspirations when working and creating using various tools in the design studio.
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