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Ms. Loughlin from Portland ME is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Edison Inspires STEM Problem Solving

Help me give my students the opportunity to learn coding by solving challenges with Edison Robots.

  • $1,088 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My school is racially, ethnically and economically diverse. Our model of teaching is connected with EL Education (Expeditionary Learning). This means that staff within grade level teams and across the grades create Learning Expeditions that integrate content from different courses. We often have students collaborate across grade levels as well.

Many of my students are first or second generation immigrants from around the world.

This is why developing 21st century skills is so important to my students' future success. Having this experience and expertise will equip them for the world of college, career and citizenship.

My Project

This project will allow me to have students using coding to solve problems with small self-contained Edison Robots. I am hoping to purchase Edison V2.0 to replace my current obsolete Edison V1.0 robots. The last two years my engineering classes have completed their robotic unit fully virtually.

Seeing a robot acting based on the instructions from code makes coding real for students.

Now that we have returned to in-person learning I would like to have real robots for students to write code for. Edison Robots allow we to offer different levels of challenge from drag and drop programming to using Python. We can also use the 3D printers and laser cutter in my classroom to modify and improve our robots.

Ms. Loughlin
Grades 9-12
  • Casco Bay High School
  • Portland, ME
    • More than a third of students from low‑income households

    This project will reach 70 students.

    7 donors have given to this project.

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Hamilton Buhl Edison Educational Robot Kit, Pack of 10 • Frey Scientific $755.09 1 $755.09

Materials cost

$755.09

Vendor shipping charges

 $90.61

Sales tax

 $37.75

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.33

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$924.78

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$163.20

Total project goal

$1,087.98

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,087.98

5 Donors

-$568.99

Donations toward project cost

-$483.64

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$85.35

match offer

-$518.99

Match offer toward project cost

-$441.14

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$77.85

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 $0.00

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