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Ms. Diaz from Hialeah, FL is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Did Someone Say Drones?

Help me give my students three Dji Ryze Tello drones. They’ll be a great incentive to set up commands in Scratch and to teach VLOS skills as well!

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

In the heart of Hialeah, a small town in Miami, there is this small school, PSMS, that would welcome, for the first time, its future drone students- pilots/programmers. This initiative will be offered to those six graders who would like to join our Drone/Coding elective class. PSMS school is a public school that enrolls 88% economically disadvantaged students.

My Project

What wouldn’t be more exciting for a child than flying a drone at school? Students find drones very captivating. These fragile but powerful quadcopters function very similar to those video games our learners often play at home. They already possess the basic skills to fly these devices, yet many students can’t afford to buy these costly devices: PSMS is a public school that enrolls 88% economically disadvantaged students.

Drones have the potential for motivating students to learn concepts from programming, aviation, engineering, robotics, weather, geometry, etc.

Studies show this technology nurtures life skills such as planning, concentration, strategizing, multi-tasking, critical thinking and experimentation, and social skills that would ultimately give our learners an advantage in promising job markets in a near future.

We would love to assist our students in reaching their maximum potential by bringing this enthralling technology to our classrooms. We will be offering two coding/drones, elective classes, next year. A perfect location has been set up for indoor flights. We also have two Tello EDU drones, a drone obstacle course, a net, and 15 laptops for coding. Scratch, the targeted programing language, will be installed on our students' computers.

We are aware this technology is very expensive to acquire, therefore we will try our very best to add more drones to our classroom, but we may have to wait for too long until we have the needed funds for this.

We would love to change our school, after all, technology is already changing our society.

Ms. Diaz Palm Springs Middle School Grades 6-8

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Hialeah, FL View local requests

More than 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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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
DJI RYZE TELLO DRONE WHITE 9X8X2 IN • Ward's Science $107.99 3 $323.97

Materials cost

$323.97

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$358.83

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$63.32

Total project goal

$422.15

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $422.15

7 Donors

-$360.68

Donations toward project cost

-$316.33

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.35

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$11.47

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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