Past projects 7
Help Us Wind Our Yarn!
Funded Feb 6, 2023The swift and ball winders were immediately put to good use. Turning hanks and donuts of yarn (aka future tangles) into functional cakes that we were able to quickly knit and crochet.
Students were excited because they had only seen these tools in stores and on TikTok. They were excited to try out the tools and use them to make their projects more functional. Students enjoy the wooden swift better and we discovered that some ball winders have more protection from tangling (and from messing up our yarn)!
Our next steps include finishing up our winter projects and moving onto summer projects. Thank you again!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Andrea
Future Knitters Create With Tools and Storage
Funded Jan 28, 2023We have been able to store our materials carefully, preventing bugs and rodents from entering our yarn and allowing us to sort things as well. Students have also taken advantage of the variety of knitting needles to create different projects.
Students were excited about the organization system. Before this, we were unable to find things easily and as a result of clear bins with labels, students are able to quickly identify the tools and/or materials they need.
Our next steps are finishing up our winter projects and moving on to summer projects. Thanks again for your yelp!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Andrea
This classroom project was brought to life by A New York City Parent and 4 other donors.Improving Online Teaching During a Pandemic
Funded Nov 24, 2020Thanks so much for your generosity! It's really changed my teaching, being able to present the screen, see my students simultaneously, and annotate it while managing a chat room and individual breakout rooms is amazing!
My students were really amazed at my newfound ability to "write" math on the screen quickly and efficiently. Knowing that I could see them, while I presented material, meant they left their cameras on and as such, I was able to read their facial expressions while going over presented material. This encouraged the few stragglers who had their cameras off to continue to turn their cameras on.
I can't say thank you enough for everything!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Andrea
This classroom project was brought to life by Two Screens for Teachers and 2 other donors.Empowering Future Programmers & Engineers with Legos
Funded Aug 23, 2015Thank you for your generous contributions! It was really exciting and wonderful to have your donations. We truly appreciated the new education kits. These kits have more sensors, and more versatile Lego pieces that allowed our students to do some amazing things.
This semester we built three different types of robots as a class. First we built a drawing robot that could draw three equilateral triangles. This was for beginning students to learn some of the basic programming logic and become familiar with the Lego Mindstorm programming interface. Then we built robots that could fetch a ball. To make it more competitive, students had to signal their robots to fetch the ball and retrieve it before the other team. In our final project, we are currently working on "sumo" robots. Our students must stay in the ring longer than all of the teams.
We also have students working on individual projects thanks to the additional kits. These students are completing more complex robots for their Science PBAT as their final graduation piece in the sciences. One student is interested in making a robot that will clean and help pick up clutter/litter. Another student is designing a robot that can count money. Four more students are brainstorming ideas to build something both complex and interesting for themselves.
This semester would not have been possible without your generosity.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Andrea
This classroom project was brought to life by Infosys Foundation USA and 17 other donors.Empowering Future Engineers with Legos
Funded Dec 7, 2014Without a doubt, the kits and additional motors and sensors have made a huge difference in our class!
The organizer kits have allowed us to keep our pieces neatly organized and not scattering all across the room. The additional motors have allowed students to build robots with more creative applications. The sensors are allowing us to explore gyroscopic and ultrasonic applications.
Without a doubt, our students would not have been able to learn to program as easily. This increased both the students' learning and my own ability to be flexible with our pre-existing materials and help students achieve their robotic goals.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Andrea
This classroom project was brought to life by Kia and 3 other donors.Materials for Mathematical Proofs & Games Course
Funded Jul 24, 2014This semester we have used your resources to explore the game of Mancala. Some students have selected this as their final project. Since some games were not available at the time we ordered, there are other games that we chose. Including, but not limited to 3d tic-tac-toe. The document camera was greatly appreciated and has been used both in this class and other courses to the benefit of students.
Today, we had two guest speakers from Carnegie Mellon University who were impressed with the analytical ability of the students. We would not have been able to analyze the games we've played so far without your generous donations. Thanks again!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Andrea
Robotics With Lego MindStorm
Funded Jul 31, 2014This course would not be possible without your donation! Our students were excited to have these kits for their class, and they were really surprised at both their expense and your generosity. We use these kits every class in order to be able to build our robots. Our students are learning beginning programming logic, engineering, and troubleshooting. Our students are also learning to deal with frustration and rethink strategies. I am also learning to how to help students learn to persevere. Thank you for improving our entire classroom, and helping us purchase something that will impact future classes and not just this one generation.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Andrea