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Mr. Puertas Aguilera from Houston, TX is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Recycling to put Together a Robotics Club

Help me give my students the opportunity to create robots and participate in contests throughout the state of Texas.

  • $991 goal

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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

My students are Vietnamese and Hispanic kids from four through fifth grade. They are economically disadvantaged.

We have a robotics club in our school and I’m their coach.

We won first prize on Ecobot last year, so we are excited to expand the experience to more kids who can benefit from the club.

We focus on learning English through STEM activities as our students are all English Language Learners and have different first languages. The students are mostly Gifted and Talented and have no other means to have STEM extracurricular activities.

My Project

Our Robotics Club just found thousands of LEGO parts in a storage within the school and we are very excited. Unfortunately, those parts belong to the old NXT LEGO kits that nobody is using anymore to participate in robotics contests. But if we get the new "brains" from the EV3 kits, we can make our own EV3 kits by putting together the parts for a fraction of the price. We would be able to build a robot for each brain we can get as the other parts will work with the new brain.

Our club just expanded from 7 to 15 kids and, if we get more EV3 Brains we can expand it further.

We had more than 60 applications this year but we cannot accept more members if we don't have the resources.

Help us get more kids involved in STEM projects and put those old parts into good use!

Mr. Puertas Aguilera Park Place Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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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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
LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Intelligent Brick • Amazon Business $199.95 4 $799.80

Materials cost

$799.80

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$841.80

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$148.55

Total project goal

$990.35

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $990.35

1 Donor

-$990.35

Donations toward project cost

-$841.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$148.55

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 $0.00

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