I teach 4th grade at Barnes Elementary. Beaverton's Future Ready vision has encouraged me, my students, and my team to integrate essential 21st century skills into classroom practice. Coding, robotics, and engineering design are an essential part of that practice, and HummingBird Kits, with their wide array of sensors and flexible configurations, are perhaps the most versatile tool around.
Students are highly engaged when they can connect their classroom learning with authentic hands-on work. While we have already laid the foundation for technology-enhanced learning, these Hummingbirds will provide even more opportunities to solve and design real world problems.
I look forward to my class participating in the iX18 Beaverton Innovation Expo this year. I have one Hummingbird Kit for my class, but I hope to use this campaign to purchase more. These Hummingbird Kits will reach far beyond just my classroom of 21 students, as I can use them to help at least 120 4th grade and 80 5th grade students learn to code as our school begins to build a maker space.
Please see below exactly what I am hoping to fund:
This project is supported by the Beaverton Education Foundation.
Founded in 1988, the Beaverton Education Foundation raises money to provide hands-on innovative academic enrichment and advancement programs & projects that go beyond normal school funding at all Beaverton public schools and is a 501(c)(3) community-based nonprofit organization. BEF mobilizes community resources to fund innovative classroom, summer and after-school programs.
In the event that this project does not reach its goal, BEF may apply the funds received to another project in need.
