A Coding Project Worth Noting!

Funded Sep 15, 2023

The robots you have donated have made coding come alive for my students. In 2 classes, we used bee bot and Colby to navigate to avatars students would like to choose in 3d world (3d world is a District 75 program for students with profound special needs that teaches life skills such as budgeting, working, grocery shopping, and maintaining an apartment through an adapted online simulator in second life). In 3 classes, we used bee bot to teach cause and effect. The students were able to press a button and hear a noise and then when go was pressed they saw their code in action. In another class we used Bee Bot to teach directional coding to prepare students for work on code.org by first providing them with a concrete robot. Artie 3000 was used in Computer Club on Fridays to teach phonemes -- students used the block coding feature to draw an o and an e. I can't wait to teach more coding concepts and to use Bee Bot to teach beginning reading skills to our students!

Thank you so much for your generosity!”

With gratitude,

Ms. Nielson