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Mr. Harbison's classroom raised $426

A Newspaper Staff Without A Camera?

My students who run the school newspaper need a digital camera.

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Mr. Harbison Gage Park High School
Chicago, IL Grades 9-12

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My school is 50% African American and 50% Latino and is located on the southwest side of Chicago. The poverty rate among our students is 94.1%.

I took over our school newspaper at the beginning of this year. The school issued me one computer for 100 students in 4 classes to make the program a success. In the past two years, our school has issued 3 newspapers. That's only 3 papers for two entire school years. Where I grew up we called that a yearbook, not a newspaper! Then I asked to run the program. I have 100 students (4 classes), and we have, as of this writing, published 3 editions in the first 6 weeks of school.

We have made great progress, but our school newspaper program is in need of one item that would really help us improve our paper's quality immeasurably. We need a digital camera! If we had a digital camera, students could visually document school functions such as sporting events (try to imagine a newspaper with an article about the homecoming game without any pictures), dances, and other events such as guest speakers, etc.

Won't you please help? It seems like such a small thing, but a digital camera would make all the difference in the world to my students.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

100 students impacted 6 donors
Mr. Harbison Gage Park High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Chicago, IL View local requests

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. Learn more

100 students impacted 6donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
SANDISK 2GB SD MEMORY CARD -- SanDisk SD Cards; 2GB • Quill Corporation $44.99 1 $44.99
KODAK EASY SHARE Z612 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA -- Kodak Digital Cameras; EasyShare Z612 • Quill Corporation $249.99 1 $249.99

Materials cost

$294.98

Vendor shipping charges

 $29.50

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.37

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$349.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$76.61

Total project goal

$425.61

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $425.61

5 Donors

-$408.82

Donations toward project cost

-$349.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$59.82

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$16.79

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 $0.00

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