Vote For a Future Engineer Project to get Funded by Sonic Drive In

[Jdunk54nl]

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Hey Friends,
I am a high school physics teacher by day in a 100% free and reduced lunch (mostly free) school district.

We build a lot of engineering projects to discuss the physics behind the project as well as give students life skills on how to use different tools. This empowers them to be able to make some choices in their future. They will have the skills to decide if they want to build something themselves or pay someone to build it. The engineering part hopefully gets a couple to go on to the engineering world, but that is only a couple students a year that start and end up finishing an engineering degree.

Anyway, I use a lot of power tools that have either been purchased by me or donated by others. This is to get us a Miter Saw to make better cuts and ease some anxiety I have when students use the circ saw.

ALL THIS TAKES IS YOU VOTING! NOTHING ELSE!

Sonic Drive in has partnered with Donors Choose to fund a bunch of projects if they are one of the top vote getters in their Fall Contest. They are funding up to $250,000 each week for 4 weeks (ending October 24th) for a total of $1,000,000.
To vote do the following:

• Go to this link and sign up for an account: https://www.limeadesforlearning.com/sign-in
• Verify your email if you signed up via email without using the log in via google/facebook option.
• Then go to this link to vote for my project! https://www.limeadesforlearning.com/projects/5872417

You get 4 votes the first time you sign up then an additional vote every day (if you use it) after that.

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[pozz]

Good luck.

 

[pjug]

Voted 4X and added small donation. I wonder if we can fund the whole goal here.

 

[Jdunk54nl]

Thank you for the votes and donation!

But Not necessary to donate if everyone just votes. The voting alone will fully fund it via sonic! They will pay up to $600 for the project and mine was conveniently under that cost .

 

[amirm]

I voted four times as well. Good luck! Your students (and you) deserve it.

 

[amirm]

As noted, if you miss the goal, please let us know and we can help fund.

 

[Jdunk54nl]

This was a couple students yesterday that have never used a band saw, drill press, wood glue, clamps. They have now!

We are currently building mouse trap cars in one class and homemade instruments in the others.

This is where the sliding miter saw will come in super handy! These band saws are good, but easy to get off of a straight line with them (I am sure if you ever used one, you know what I mean)

This material is way to thin and light to drill through and use screws on, it cracks easy. Good for speed (light weight) of the mousetrap car, bad for assembly. Hence the wood glue and clamps. But they now know when to use wood glue vs. screws/nails and how.

They even got crazy and did press fit bearings for their axles! Kind of a perfect accident of drill bit size choice. They were planning on super gluing the bearings in but now they don't need to!

 

[krumpol]

Voted. We've got two teachers in family so I know and appreciate your effort.

 

[Jdunk54nl]

Bump for some more votes! Please.....

 

[JustAnandaDourEyedDude]

Added four votes as well. Hands-on science for young people is a worthy cause. Good luck.

 

[Jdunk54nl]

Thank you to all that have helped so far! The voting for this week to get funded closes on Sunday! Let's get as many as we can so this gets paid for by Sonic!

 

[Jdunk54nl]

Well, fortunately a donor that didn't know we were doing this funded the project.

Thanks to all that voted for mine.

If you didn't get a chance to vote or want to help out my wife (who is also a high school teacher), you can vote for her project here! She would greatly appreciate it!

SONIC Foundation

www.limeadesforlearning.com

 

[Jdunk54nl]

If people want to vote for another project, this one is now up! It is for some tape measures, levels, and speed/carpenter/rafter squares for the classroom.

You get 4 votes the first time you sign up, then 1 vote every 24 hours after! So vote once a day!

Or if you go to sonic drive in, they give you a code for an additional vote on the receipt!

SONIC Foundation

www.limeadesforlearning.com

 

[Jdunk54nl]

Bump for more votes

I did some research today (since projects got funded by Sonic Yesterday), and the cutoff point was about 400 votes. We are currently at 201 votes. We need 200 more!

That is 50 people voting for the first time (4 votes the first time), or 200 voting for the second time (1 vote each day).

As of writing this, there are 1040 users online and 207 members. That could be A LOT of votes! It costs you nothing but 5 minutes of your time!

 

[Jdunk54nl]

Bump for more votes

SONIC Foundation

www.limeadesforlearning.com

 

[Jdunk54nl]

Got our first voting item!
Let's get the other one more votes so we get that one too!
https://www.limeadesforlearning.com/projects/5918927

 

[Jdunk54nl]

Some more fun pictures of some of the completed projects that were just built by students.

Maybe this will convince a few more of you to go vote!
https://www.limeadesforlearning.com/projects/5918927

Homemade Instruments for regular/honors physics
Mouse Trap Cars for AP Physics.

 

[Jdunk54nl]

Bump to remind people to use their daily vote
https://www.limeadesforlearning.com/projects/5918927

This ends Sunday at Midnight Eastern time

 

[JustAnandaDourEyedDude]

Bump to remind people to use their daily vote
https://www.limeadesforlearning.com/projects/5918927

This ends Sunday at Midnight Eastern time

I have been using a vote every day for your projects, but today I got to use 4 votes again! Do we get 4 votes once a week (and a vote per day in between)?

 

[Jdunk54nl]

I have been using a vote every day for your projects, but today I got to use 4 votes again! Do we get 4 votes once a week (and a vote per day in between)?

Every 10 votes, you get an additional 3