I teach a mix of kids who have grown up on the island, some students who are adopted and recently moved to America, and some students who have recently moved to the island. My classes feel more like small families, and my students treat each other like brothers and sisters versus classmates.
They are intelligent and have a strong connection with our island community.
My students live on an island with a permanent population of just over 700 year round. In order to reach us, one would need to drive to the tip of the peninsula, hop on a 20 minute ferry ride, and drive about 2 miles to reach our school. Being the smallest public school in Wisconsin, encourages my students to form close connections with kids from all grades K-12.
My Project
For our Solve for Tomorrow project, we connected to our island’s need to solve our wastewater treatment methods. We toured a centralized facility to see why something like this would be too costly for the island to adopt. This led the students to look into the variety of septic systems. They found out there are 208 properties with holding tanks.
Our project focus moved from designing a solution to educating our year round community and tourist community about septic system usage and maintenance.
The kids mobilized to design and 3D print designs of the various septic systems to create models. These will work alongside print and digital informational and educational material distributed to both of our audiences.
Here are some plans for the materials we have chosen:
1. We are planning to use the 3D printer to help make some of these models on a larger scale for implementation of our next stage.
2. The interactive display will be placed in our commons to accommodate community wide presentations.
3. The tablets and chrombooks will allow kids to continue working on this project in and out of the classroom. Also these materials will be borrowed by other classes in our school for lessons.
4. The LittleBits kits and materials will boost our growing STREAM program in the coding, technology, and engineering areas of focus K through 12.
Samsung Gear VR w/Controller - Latest Edition - US Version with Warranty + Samsung Gear 360 (2017 Edition) Real 360° 4K VR Camera (US Version with Warranty)
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$174.08
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$174.08
littleBits Electronics Synth Kit
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$129.00
1
$129.00
littleBits Space Rover Inventor Kit-Build and Control a Space Rover tech Toy with Hours of NASA-Inspired Missions!
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$116.42
1
$116.42
littleBits Base Inventor Kit
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$69.96
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$69.96
MakerBot Educators Guidebook
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$50.00
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$50.00
YOYI 1.75MM Flexible TPU Filament 1.75mm TPU 3D Printer Filament, Diameter Tolerance +/- 0.03 mm, 0.8 KG Spool, 1.75 mm (Green)
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$25.99
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$25.99
YOYI 3D Flexible TPU Filament 0.8KG 1.75mm Flexible TPU 3D Printer Filament, Diameter Tolerance +/- 0.03 mm, 0.8 KG Spool, 1.75 mm (Blue)
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$25.99
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$25.99
3D Solutech Natural Clear 1.75mm Flexible 3D Printer Filament 2.2 LBS (1.0KG)
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$20.99
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$20.99
Materials cost
$19,999.75
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$300.00
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$20,329.75
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$3,587.60
Total project goal
$23,917.35
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$23,917.35
1 Donor
-$23,917.35
Donations toward project cost
-$20,329.75
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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