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Mrs. Leffler from Billings, MT is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Drones in Middle School STEM Class

Help me give my students programmable drones, an obstacle course for racing them, and books to teach about drones -- the new technology and hope for the future.

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My Students

My students are in their first year of middle school. They are eager and excited for all things science. Our Project Lead the Way curriculum provides students many opportunities to solve real-world problems that exist today and may exist in the future. This is an introduction to careers in science, technology, and engineering. In order to create the best possible learning environment for my students, I begin with helping them to develop a growth mindset. This enables them to persevere as they learn from failure since all of their solutions are innovative and new.

"Many of life's failures are people who didn't realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison

"Success is a pile of failure. You're just standing on top of it."

These two quotes are examples of a growth mindset. We have posted them around the classroom and written them in our Engineering Notebooks.

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My Project

My students are ready for the next steps in their robotics and programming learning. A drone is a complex machine; once you are able to peek inside, one STEM concept leads to another.

Since my students have had lots of exposure to robotics and programming, adding drones to our classroom would allow us to take the next steps in learning concepts like Bernoulli's principle while addressing Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in order to prepare students for a world where science literacy is increasingly necessary.

These drones and accompanying books that teach about them will help introduce my students to the real-world use and application of semi-autonomous robots and drone-use ethics. My next generation innovators will greatly benefit from this initial exposure in order to realize the potential of drones in their future to capture data during natural and man-made disasters, delivering stuff, surveying property, building inspections, assisting search and rescue, monitoring wildlife, assisting farmers, covering sporting events, assisting firefighting, and even transporting medicine to unreachable and/or remote areas to provide lifesaving measures.

Mrs. Leffler Ben Steele Middle School Grades 6-8

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Billings, MT View local requests 150 students impacted 2donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Robolink CoDrone Lite - Programmable and Educational Drone Kit • Amazon Business $119.99 3 $359.97
Holy Stone HS220 FPV RC Quadcopter Drone with Camera Live Video, WiFi APP Control, Altitude Hold, Headless Mode, One Key Take Off/Landing, 3D Flips, Foldable Arms,Wing and Folding Flight Modes • Amazon Business $79.99 2 $159.98
Drone Racing Obstacle Course. Easy to Build Racing Drone Kit. Create Your Own Drone Racing League. Suitable Drone Games for Kid or Adults (Amazon Exclusive) • Amazon Business $29.99 2 $59.98
What on Earth: Robots • Amazon Business $12.37 1 $12.37
Discover Drones (Searchlight Books: What's Cool About Science?) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
All About Drones (Cutting-Edge Technology) (Focus Readers: Cutting: Edge Technology: Navigator Level) • Amazon Business $9.66 1 $9.66
Drones (True Bookengineering Wonders) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95

Materials cost

$618.90

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.28

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$658.18

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$116.15

Total project goal

$774.33

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $774.33

1 Donor

-$388.00

Donations toward project cost

-$329.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.20

match offer

-$386.33

Match offer toward project cost

-$328.38

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$57.95

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