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  • Summerdale Elementary Middle School
  • Summerdale, AL
  • More than three‑quarters 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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We have been fortunate enough to be able to use some Title funds to get some robotics for our school, however, those funds don't pay for a way to store them. As much as we like to think our kids would never walk off with one of them, things happen. Having storage cabinets for our STEM materials will make it so that our STEM materials will always be available to all of our students. Cabinets filled with Curiosity is a great way to ensure that our Robot's have a safe environment to stay in where they will not be taken advantage of. Have a place to store our STEM gear will make certain that our gear will have a longer shelf life as they will have a place to be store properly and out of the way of other activities going on in the room. Our students are now required by the State to take Computer Science, it has been recommended that we get mice for them to use on the computers. Having mice will make their work more productive and more efficient rather than trying to navigate the trac pad.

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We have been fortunate enough to be able to use some Title funds to get some robotics for our school, however, those funds don't pay for a way to store them. As much as we like to think our kids would never walk off with one of them, things happen. Having storage cabinets for our STEM materials will make it so that our STEM materials will always be available to all of our students. Cabinets filled with Curiosity is a great way to ensure that our Robot's have a safe environment to stay in where they will not be taken advantage of. Have a place to store our STEM gear will make certain that our gear will have a longer shelf life as they will have a place to be store properly and out of the way of other activities going on in the room. Our students are now required by the State to take Computer Science, it has been recommended that we get mice for them to use on the computers. Having mice will make their work more productive and more efficient rather than trying to navigate the trac pad.

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