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  • Cotswold Elementary School
  • Charlotte, NC
  • 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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Our robotics program is past its trial year and now has accepted many more students. As a team, we have learned the basics and applied our knowledge. We are now aiming higher than before! Programming and engineering are invaluable skills to possess in the 21st century for learners of any age. Our club provides the opportunity for students to develop their understanding and apply their knowledge of programming by writing codes that give autonomy to robots they have created. To accomplish this, the students need laptops that are able to support the Lego Ev3 software programs. Our robotics students will develop thinking, social, communication, self-management, and research skills while programming. Ultrasonic sensors are eyes for their robots. The sensors are highly-accurate and able to sense objects near the robots. Students can read the values reported by the sensors and program the robots to respond to their surroundings. The sensors give simplified data to the students that is easier for them to understand. Our kits are aged. Our sensors are old, outdated, and not designed to sense the robots’ surroundings. Giving our students updated technology to incorporate into their robots’ creation will give them a fighting chance! Our club is also in need of battery packs for the robots. Currently, each robot uses six AA batteries per unit. These batteries need to be replaced after 10-20 minutes of continued use. This is extremely problematic because the students often need to disassemble their robot to change these batteries. Providing students with rechargeable battery packs will give them a long-term solution to the problem of rebuilding and their robots each time they need to change their batteries. It will also maximize their time problem-solving and engineering their robots’ design and function.

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Our robotics program is past its trial year and now has accepted many more students. As a team, we have learned the basics and applied our knowledge. We are now aiming higher than before! Programming and engineering are invaluable skills to possess in the 21st century for learners of any age. Our club provides the opportunity for students to develop their understanding and apply their knowledge of programming by writing codes that give autonomy to robots they have created. To accomplish this, the students need laptops that are able to support the Lego Ev3 software programs. Our robotics students will develop thinking, social, communication, self-management, and research skills while programming. Ultrasonic sensors are eyes for their robots. The sensors are highly-accurate and able to sense objects near the robots. Students can read the values reported by the sensors and program the robots to respond to their surroundings. The sensors give simplified data to the students that is easier for them to understand. Our kits are aged. Our sensors are old, outdated, and not designed to sense the robots’ surroundings. Giving our students updated technology to incorporate into their robots’ creation will give them a fighting chance! Our club is also in need of battery packs for the robots. Currently, each robot uses six AA batteries per unit. These batteries need to be replaced after 10-20 minutes of continued use. This is extremely problematic because the students often need to disassemble their robot to change these batteries. Providing students with rechargeable battery packs will give them a long-term solution to the problem of rebuilding and their robots each time they need to change their batteries. It will also maximize their time problem-solving and engineering their robots’ design and function.

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