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Mr. Roeder from Ozone Park, NY is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Robot Brain to Help Expand Students' Brains

Help me give my students a new roboRIO for their FRC robot so that we can leave last year's robot intact for experimenting, practicing for the competition, and training new team members.

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My Students

The students in my robotics club are so excited and motivated to help our FIRST Robotics Competition team succeed! Some of them have been participating since we founded our team two years ago, while many of the others are new, but they all have so much to offer to each other and to our team. Reflecting the diversity of the school, our team consists of students from many different backgrounds who bring their varied knowledge and experiences to the workbench.

Seeing my students, even the ones that are sometimes disengaged in a traditional classroom setting, show so much enthusiasm and interest in learning about a variety of complex subjects is all the proof I need that participating in robotics is making a huge positive impact on their educational experience.

There's something about competition and about seeing the concrete, impressive results of your work that encourages everyone to push themselves beyond what they might normally think were the limits of their ability.

My Project

Our FRC team is in its third year, and we're trying to build a program that can be truly sustainable. The last of our founding members will graduate this year, so we have to make sure that our new students are prepared to take up their mantle. We would like a large part of that preparation to be rebuilding, improving, and practicing with last year's robot.

However, we can't teach and train with our old robot once build season starts if we have to pull the roboRIO from it to put it on the new robot.

The roboRIO is the "brain" of every FRC robot, and without it the robot is just metal and plastic. Build season for FRC teams is only 6 weeks, and as a young team with limited resources, it usually takes the whole season for us to complete our robot. Once build season ends, this year's robot will have to be packed away until competition.

If we can acquire a second roboRIO, we can keep using last year's robot as a tool to train the newer members on and for our team to practice controlling the robot so that they're prepared for competition, even after it's time to bag and tag our competition bot. It will also give us a safety cushion if something goes haywire with the first roboRIO, which happened last year. The company that makes them is good about replacing them if they fail, but the week it cost us during the middle of build season was way more time than we could afford to wait.

My students are aiming high for this year. They already have eyes on bringing home a blue banner for the first time in our team's history, and with your help, we can make that goal more possible.

Mr. Roeder John Adams High School Grades 9-12

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Ozone Park, NY View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

25 students impacted 9donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
NI roboRIO (am-3000) • AndyMark $435.00 1 $435.00

Materials cost

$435.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$471.52

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$83.21

Total project goal

$554.73

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $554.73

7 Donors

-$397.38

Donations toward project cost

-$348.27

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$49.11

match offer

-$145.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$123.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$12.35

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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