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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 Center 2

Help me give my students access to a a Playstation 5 to help in the analysis, reverse-engineering, designing and creation of student built video games!

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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 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. We have increased our level of participation in these courses over the last 8 years.

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

My goal is to have them continue considering gaming ecologies, societal impact and influences, and storytelling as a platform for their own creations and explorations. I have had a lot of success with the introduction of my first R&D station (Nintendo Switch) back in the fall [Thanks DonorsChoose!]. So far this year, my students have created games following traditional arcade styles as well as rpg style approaches to their creations.

While my students develop games, they rotate through stations, and I am hoping to add another, employing a different system. This Playstation 5 will help students to further 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 Playstation games will continue to help inform our conversations and designs and provide fresh perspectives across platforms.

Just like the Nintendo R&D station, this Playstation 5 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. This will then help them better model their own top-down design strategies in the 2D and 3D games they are building across p5.js and A.frame.io.

Mr. McCoy South Bronx Preparatory School Grades 9-12

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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

95 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sony - PlayStation 5 Slim Console - White • Best Buy Education $505.38 1 $505.38
ASTRO BOT Sony PlayStation 5 • Best Buy Education $59.99 1 $59.99
Hogwarts Legacy Standard Edition - PlayStation 5 • Best Buy Education $49.99 1 $49.99
NBA 2K25 Standard Edition - PlayStation 5 • Best Buy Education $29.99 1 $29.99
Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order Standard Edition - PlayStation 5 • Best Buy Education $19.99 1 $19.99

Materials cost

$665.34

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$705.32

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$124.47

Total project goal

$829.79

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

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 $829.79

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