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Mrs. Ghumm from Joplin MO is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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My students need 60 flash drives to easily and securely save their "in progress" projects, presentations, and assignments so that they can work from any computer.

  • $789 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Have you ever had to complete a project at a shared workstation? Has your hard work ever just *poof* disappeared? This is the frustration faced by many 5th graders in our class.

These are the brightest and best 5th graders in the whole state of Missouri.

They learn by using technology as a tool every day, but have no secure way to save the fantastic presentations and evidence of the problems they solve every day. These young thinkers will be the curers of disease, the solvers of energy needs, and even our next world leaders, if only they can save their data.

My Project

By having access to their individual flash drives, labeled with their names, these students will be able to save data that will assist them in project work every day for the entire school year! They will learn responsibility for their data, and have a feeling of security that their project will not disappear from the desktop, documents folder, or server by accident. It will give them absolute ownership of their work.

The frustration and disappointment that my students feel when their files disappear from our shared workstations breaks my heart, especially when they hang their heads and begin the work anew.

I also see this as an opportunity for them to learn the lifetime skill of being responsible for their personal work, as well as the pride of being able to carry their work home to share.

Mrs. Ghumm
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Imation USB Swivel Flash Drive 4GB, Silver • Quill $9.99 60 $599.40
Brother P-Touch PT-1290 Simply Stylish LabelMaker • Quill $19.99 1 $19.99

Materials cost

$619.39

Vendor shipping charges

$6.19

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.29

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$669.87

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$118.21

Total project goal

$788.08

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$788.08

19 Donors

-$788.08

Donations toward project cost

-$754.87

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.21

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.12

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$0.00

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