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Mr. Diaz from Fairfield CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Student-led project

3D Model Competition and Presentations

We need white, orange and black filament for our new 3D printer.

  • $1,067 goal

This project expired on January 10, 2016.

This project expired on January 10, 2016.

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About My Students

Gabe, Karan, Emily and Max are very competitive group leaders. They motivate the students around them, and are constantly challenging me as an educator. It is definitively a very special group of students. It was exciting just seeing their passion and energy when they were brainstorming ideas.

Students were given the opportunity to brainstorm ideas as a class. Somehow, all the leaders ended up talking to each other and had the idea of building something so they can compete against each other. This is a very competitive group of learners, challenges were made and challenges were accepted.

This project will allow students to apply the math concepts that they learn in class in a real world situation. Making and presenting a scale model to a vendor is no easy task. They will need to show mastery of proportions and scale, just to name a few. They will have to learn how to communicate and work as a group in order to meet certain guidelines and time deadlines. There will be plenty of opportunities to show leadership skills. Overall, their project idea looks like a very promising and exciting experience.

In Their Own Words

Engineers and architects normally have to present a model of a building or structure to their clients for approval before spending millions of dollars. Maybe, we could do something similar where we have to present something that matches what we learn in class. We know that we will be learning about area, volume, scale and percents. We could be graded on those when we present our product.

We will make sure to promote the project using social media. The project will help our math classroom, but it will also help us print parts for our robotics class and Robotics Club. So we are helping more than one classroom. We will make sure to come up with a challenging and fun math project to get everyone excited about learning math. We talked to other group leaders and we really want to compete against each other. We can even get a trophy for the winning team.

We just got a new 3D printer, but we don't have filament to print with. This project will solve that. The reason this project is important is so we can experience a real world challenge and not always working with the textbook.

Mr. Diaz
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
3D Systems 401394-01 CubePro Filament Cartridge, PLA (Polylactic Acid), Neon Orange • Amazon Business $99.00 3 $297.00
3D Systems 401400-01 CubePro Filament Cartridge, PLA (Polylactic Acid), Black • Amazon Business $99.00 3 $297.00
3D Systems 401391-01 CubePro Filament Cartridge, PLA (Polylactic Acid), White • Amazon Business $99.00 2 $198.00

Materials cost

$792.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $72.47

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$906.35

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$159.94

Total project goal

$1,066.29

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