With the grant, I was able to purchase noise cancelling headphones. My students have been using them to help them focus when doing assignments in their classrooms, or when taking assessments with me in the resource room. The students seem more focused and calm when they are wearing the noise cancelling headphones.
Technology
Eagle Express Print Shop
The Eagle Express Print Shop is an extension of Tech Now here at Eisenhower High School that gives the students the opportunity to experience entrepreneurship first hand. The students design and produce all the products in class using Corel Draw, which is the program used in Tech Now. Tech Now is an entrepreneurship course that focuses on developing a career minded skill set using modern day technology. The Eagle Express has grown over the years with the addition of equipment and products provided by the Lawton Public Schools Foundation Grants.
The Eagle Express Print Shop has a 3D printer, 2 button makers, a T-shirt press, 1 color printer and 1 poster size printer, One Cricut maker, and 1 document binding machine. The students work in the print shop to fill orders as well as developing our EHS Eagle Pride product line. The students are exposed to cost analyses of our products so they can come up with cost effective prices for the products. The students have generated over $750 in sales which is deposited into our Tech Now account and used to replenish our supplies.
Robotics
“Thank you so much Lawton Public School Foundation! We wanted to bring science and technology in the classroom to expose students to their soon reality as technology is an ever-increasing industry. We are so excited to have a humanoid robot and a robotic arm to introduce coding in our classroom. The students love using the iPads to control and code Bob, our dancing robot, and the robotic arm. We are encouraging students to try new things and challenge them to think differently than they do in their other classes. We are able to give students every opportunity to be hands-on with technology to ignite a passion and hopefully create the next generation of engineers, scientists, and mathematicians.”