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Dr. Utz from Brooklyn, NY is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Hands-on Learning with Robots

Help me give my students the robot kits that will enable to improve their engineering skills.

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My Students

My students are seventh grades who come from different backgrounds. They include students in the advanced classes, special education students, and students from foreign countries, including China, Uzbekistan and Latin America. About 60% of the students are Asian, especially China, but also countries like Bangladesh and Uzbekistan.

These students are very inquisitive and want to do things on their own.

Unfortunately, we have only two old Lego NXT robot kits for their class (7 classes, about 190 kids total). The robots would be able to use physical robots in addition to the virtual robots that they can program with Scratch. Providing them with actual robots will let them put them together, move things with motors, and sense the environment. Thank You!

My Project

This will enable my STEM students (I call them "engineers") to manipulate motors, computers, gears and other items to learn about engineering. The young engineers will be programming the EV3 brick (the name for the robot computer), designing the robot, building the robot, revising the design, and completing their goal. The engineers will learn how different sensors (light sensors, color sensors, ultrasound sensors for distance, sound sensor and tachometer found as part of the motor) work and how to use the information from the sensors to control the robot. The students will be working in small groups to achieve particular goals, like moving the robot to within 10 cm of the wall, following a line and lifting objects. They will make lot of mistakes, learning every step and rotation along the way.

Dr. Utz Junior High School 223 the Montauk Grades 6-8

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Nearly all 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
MINDSTORMS Education EV3 Core Set • LEGO Education $411.95 1 $411.95

Materials cost

$411.95

Vendor shipping charges

 $15.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.18

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$463.13

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$81.73

Total project goal

$544.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $544.86

1 Donor

-$273.00

Donations toward project cost

-$232.05

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.95

match offer

-$271.86

Match offer toward project cost

-$231.08

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.78

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 $0.00

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