KEY STATS
Number of students that will benefit:
907
Age of students:
11-16 years
Eligible for Free School Meals*:
13%
*over the past six years
Our School
East
Bergholt High School is a 11-16 school situated midway between
Ipswich and Colchester, serving a rural catchment area
in Constable Country. The School is currently judged by Ofsted to be
"Good". The number of students on roll in the year 2017/18 is
approximately 907.
About Our Clubs
I am a Computing
teacher and have been teaching at the school for over 6 years now. I am
passionate about teaching in particular STEM and extra curricular
activities. I already run several clubs and activities including:
Digital
Leaders, Esafety Champions, First Lego League, Vex Robotics, The Elite Engineering Programme (EEP), Code Club & BEBRAS
challenge.
Why we want a 3d printer
Every year, the First Lego League team takes part in an inter-school competition. This year, the theme was water-saving devices and the team were discussing prototyping devices themselves. A 3D printer would have given them a real chance in the competition. In the end they opted to make a digital game as they didn't have a way to prototype.
Next year, the theme is space with the title 'Into Orbit' and they'd be able to test their product and see if they could make them, instead of having limited options like they did this year. It would also be a great way to learn
more about engineering and prototyping.
You can see the team's video diary from the competition this year here:
But we wouldn't just use it for this competition! If we could buy a 3D printer then we could use it in all
Computing and STEM clubs - we could build robots in our Vex Robotics Club! - as well as in lessons. In Computing, we would look at the on-screen design processes, whilst in Design Technology we'd look more at the engineering side of things. And an added bonus: they would have great fun using them!
Where your money
will go
If we raise our minimum target, we will buy:
1 x UP Mini 2 3D Printer @ £557.99
https://www.rapidonline.com/up-mini-2-3d-printer-25-0055
Credit card fees @ 2%: £11.16
Grand total: £569.15
If we raise more, instead we'll buy:
1 x Robox Duel 3D Printer @ £1,506.00
http://www.techsoft.co.uk/Products/3DPrinting/CELRobox
Credit card fees @ 2%: £30.12
Grand total: £1,536.12
(We prefer this printer because it can print two materials at once! This means it can now create parts which were previously difficult or impossible with a single material printer.)
If we raise even more:
we'd love to buy the Robox Duel and some materials to start printing with:
http://www.techsoft.co.uk/Products/3DPrintingMaterials/CELRobox
HELP US REACH OUR TARGET!
Please do donate, but if you can't donate right now you can help us in other
ways! Share this project with anyone you think would support us. Share the link
at the top of the page on Twitter, Facebook, email, your website, blog, mention
us in a phone call or even just a chat over the fence! Please support us and
help make a difference to our students.
Thank you!
Get in touch
If you would like to visit our students to talk to them about STEM careers,
Computing, or Engineering please do get in touch as well!
Twitter
https://twitter.com/EastBergholt
https://twitter.com/EBHScomputing
https://twitter.com/TeamBergholt
https://twitter.com/EBHSrobotics
https://twitter.com/EBHSDigiLeaders
