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.
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A group of students will be able to open this item, read or not read instructions, feel it, figure out what it does, and there will be a student in that group that will be excited and will develop enough curiosity that he/she will begin to program it, starting with small functions and hopefully soon after that complex functions, in that time frame another student will engage in that process and through a competitive spirit will create an environment in the school that will be contagious. Maybe it only happens to one student, but maybe it impacts an entire community. Its the experience that the student will get that will allow him/her to believe in themselves, or maybe it makes an entire generation of students named Jose, Juan or Miette believe in themselves because a student named Jasmyn/Pedro once had a chance to open a box with a programmable robot, and all she/he did was take a chance
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A group of students will be able to open this item, read or not read instructions, feel it, figure out what it does, and there will be a student in that group that will be excited and will develop enough curiosity that he/she will begin to program it, starting with small functions and hopefully soon after that complex functions, in that time frame another student will engage in that process and through a competitive spirit will create an environment in the school that will be contagious. Maybe it only happens to one student, but maybe it impacts an entire community. Its the experience that the student will get that will allow him/her to believe in themselves, or maybe it makes an entire generation of students named Jose, Juan or Miette believe in themselves because a student named Jasmyn/Pedro once had a chance to open a box with a programmable robot, and all she/he did was take a chance