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Mr. McCoy from Bronx, NY is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Student Generated Video Games - Research & Development

Help me give my students access to a a Nintendo Switch to help in the analysis, reverse-engineering, designing and creation of student built video games!

  • $963 goal

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Mr. McCoy has another project! Donate to Printer Toner for Computer Science Manipulatives, Graphic Organizers and Supports to help his classroom.

$277 - complete this project and be a hero

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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 Project

At our school, a New York City public school in the Bronx, I teach AP Computer Science, an Arizona State University Cloud Computing Course and Intro to Programming to high school seniors. My students have responded really well to the curricula and we have increased our level of participation in these courses over the last 8 years.

I hope to give my students a space to leverage their own voices and experiences, and tell their stories through the creation of video games based in JavaScript!

I hope to have them consider gaming ecologies, societal impact and influences, and storytelling as a platform for their own creations and explorations.

This Nintendo Switch will help me provide access to a platform for students to analyze current and successful storytelling techniques and gameplay inputs and outputs. Being able to analyze and look for the use of key Computer Science programming concepts such as loops, functions, lists, objects and conditional statements in these Nintendo games will help inform our conversations and designs.

This Nintendo switch will be accessible to all of my students, including my ENL students and students with IEPs, giving them all an enhanced level of engagement in analyzing content choice, programming structures and scripts. By rotating group development projects through a research and development stage in my class, I believe that I will be more effective in engaging students and encouraging them to dissect and break down current games. They will then model their own top-down design strategies in the 2D and 3D games they will build across p5.js and A.frame.io. With inputs from a real wireless video game remote, students will be able to analyze and construct logic chains to manage button input, while analyzing game structures across platforms including Mac, PC and now a Nintendo System.

Mr. McCoy South Bronx Preparatory School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

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
Nintendo Switch OLED Model Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Bundle - Multi • Best Buy Education $357.52 1 $357.52
PowerA - Enhanced Wireless Controller for Nintendo Switch - Black • Best Buy Education $39.83 4 $159.32
The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Standard Edition - Nintendo Switch Nintendo Switch OLED Model Nintendo Switch Lite • Best Buy Education $69.99 1 $69.99
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Nintendo Switch • Best Buy Education $59.99 1 $59.99
Super Mario Bros. Wonder - Nintendo Switch OLED Model Nintendo Switch Nintendo Switch Lite • Best Buy Education $59.99 1 $59.99
EA Sports FC 24 Standard Edition - Nintendo Switch Nintendo Switch OLED Model Nintendo Switch Lite • Best Buy Education $39.99 1 $39.99
Minecraft Standard Edition - Nintendo Switch OLED Model Nintendo Switch Nintendo Switch Lite • Best Buy Education $29.99 1 $29.99

Materials cost

$776.79

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.65

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$818.44

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$144.43

Total project goal

$962.87

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $962.87

1 Donor

-$818.44

Donations toward project cost

-$818.44

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$144.43

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 $0.00

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