Past projects 4
LET’S GET PHYSICAL WITH PHYSICAL COMPUTING
Funded Dec 21, 2019I am immensely grateful for your generosity. I know that my students and my administrators also appreciate your donation. This wonderful gift will allow us to explore computing on an entirely new and different platform. The creativity and ingenuity that my students exhibit every day will now be challenged and extended in a new way. We are looking forward to sending you pictures that document the impact of your kindness. Thank you again for this opportunity. All of us wish you a very merry holiday season and happy new year.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Hamilton
This classroom project was brought to life by An anonymous classroom supporter and 7 other donors.Drones and Arduino Robots Will Help This STEM Class Soar
Funded Oct 31, 2018Thank you so much for this impactful donation of Tello drones. The students were able to learn about the components of drones, how drones are constructed, how to fly drones and how to program drones.
In a technology arena poised for huge growth, our students were able to engage in every activity and connect the lessons to real-world possibilities. The students connected their activities to a variety of industries where drones are currently being deployed such as the military, real estate, farming, mapping and disaster relief.
The students were also very excited to apply the DroneBlocks programming platform to the Tello Drones. Using their phones and laptop computers, students successfully programmed the drones to fly autonomously and with remote controls. They designed and set up obstacle courses and challenge patterns and flew the drones with a great deal of excitement.
We are truly grateful for this opportunity.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Hamilton
This classroom project was brought to life by The Rebuild Texas Fund and 5 other donors.STEM Boys Want to Program Robots with Up-to-Date Laptops
Funded Oct 13, 2015Your generous donation has been a huge windfall in our efforts to develop my school's programming acumen in robotics. For the past four years our robotics teams have done very well in the mechanical aspects of robotics. We have won many competitions at the District, state, and national levels. However, we have lagged behind in our mastery of programming our robots.
Your donation will allow us to have greater access to the equipment we need to learn and practice a variety of programming languages including NXT-g, EV3-g, RobotC and Java. We learn these programs in the classroom and put them to "real world" test in tournaments.
With your help, so far this year, one of our robotics teams won a regional Programming Skills award. This award is earned by the team that writes the most effective program to make their robot perform tasks autonomously.
And all five of our robotics teams have made it to the State Championships. These include three middle school teams and two high school teams.
We have also started asking our students to research the parts that they need for their robots and to create spreadsheets that detail the item name, the ID #, the quantity and cost of each part they want to order. We effectively have 6th and 7th graders managing the process of ordering their own parts. Not only is this grooming them for management level skills but it is also teaching them the value of money and the value of their robots.
We deeply appreciate your support of our efforts.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Hamilton
Inner-City All-Boys School Loves to Program Robots
Funded Dec 19, 2014My students are very grateful for your donation which allowed us to receive two HP laptop computers. One of our boys said, "We love our new computers". Another student said, "They are so new and light. All of the programs we need will really work". A high school student commented, "The laptops will help us learn RobotC and be able to program our VEX robots easier".
The laptop computers are being used very effectively with four different robotic systems across four different grade levels. We are using Lego NXT-g, Lego EV3-g, RobotC graphical for VEX-IQ, and RobotC for VEX Cortex on the laptops. In the future, we will also use them to teach RobotC using Robot Virtual Worlds online. I am able to use the laptops to teach robotics programming on grade levels 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th.
The laptops have boosted my teaching by allowing me to move around the lab shoulder-to-shoulder with my students as they program their robots to master the tasks that I have assigned. It definitely adds to the interactivity and engagement between me and my students.
The laptops are so light weight that my middle school students feel very comfortable moving around the lab with them in hand. As a result, the students are a lot more confident and seem to be projecting a more professional attitude. This leads to increased learning and mastery of the subject matter.
Your donation is definitely making a difference in my classroom. Thank you so much.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Hamilton