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So Many Connections!! Robotics in Physics

My students need 7 BotBrain kits for motivating hands-on experience with electricity, circuitry, and programming to be competitive in their college courses.

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My Students

In a school with a Wildlife Conservation theme, we see connections between English, Math, Social Studies, and Life Science..., but Physics is often a tougher sell. Physics and programming are ways to bring incredible things into the classroom and out of our students!

Teaching upperclassmen is an amazing experience, especially if you have moved up through the years with them.

You are looking at the young adult versions of the children you were first exploring with. These young men and women are ready to learn the skills and experience the act of creation. My kids are from every walk of life you can find in the poorest Congressional District in the United States. AP Art students, AP English students, students planning careers in law, education, medicine... all taking Regents Physics in their Junior and Senior year. They are inquisitive, smart, funny, and brave; trying a high level class--lots of math, lots of new ideas, lots of new skills-- when their GPA is their handshake with colleges. In the first couple of units, they have made so many connections to Earth Science, Biology, and Chemistry. Now it is time to give them experiences they have never seen.

My Project

My students need 7 BotBrain kits for motivating hands-on experience with electricity, circuitry, and programming to be competitive in their college courses. Students will work collectively to create and program robots that integrate our learning of electricity, circuitry, light, and review our mechanics experience. In teams, students will design and build the maze running robot to familiarize themselves with mechanics, circuits, resistance, and programming. This will be a friendly competition. It is also an opportunity for students to become experienced in a field that many Black and Latino students are not exposed to until college. After the maze, the class will design a light show and "photovore" robot, using the skills and knowledge from the more guided robot development and will make the light-sensing robot dance.

"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day.

Teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever." Giving my students the textbook experience is short-lived for most, though some will have a switch flipped. Teach my students through creation and a story and tradition will be started. The hands-on experience will make the difference between passivity and activity. It will make the knowledge tangible.

Ms. Davis Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation Grades 9-12

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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

60 students impacted 19donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
KIT BOTBRAIN EVALUATION ROBOTICS • Frey Scientific $251.96 7 $1,763.72

Materials cost

$1,763.72

Vendor shipping charges

 $211.65

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$26.46

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,031.83

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$358.56

Total project goal

$2,390.39

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $2,390.39

15 Donors

-$2,285.98

Donations toward project cost

-$1,946.83

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$339.15

match offer

-$100.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$85.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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 $0.00

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