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Mr. TenBrink from Detroit MI is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Build A Better Mouse Trap... Car!

My students need 13 Mousetrap Car Kits.

  • $531 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

Watching a car roll across the table, dull. Racing cars down the hall that you designed, awesome! We an imaginative, hands on way to get excited about motion.

Our students come from an economically depressed area, with high crime, strong gang activity, and a lot od urban blight.

Students travel down dangerous streets every day. They resist the easy answers of the streets to challenge themselves to learn. Even with this desire, it is not easy to get excited about every topic. My students are active learners. They learn best by doing activities. Experiments and projects lead to better understanding.

My Project

Mouse trap cars provide students a chance to design and build their own cars. Building these cars allow students to learn about speed, distance, velocity, and acceleration. They will get excited about math, science, and engineering with the competitive nature of the project. Students love to feel success, and these cars will be my physics students first taste of success in the year. They will develop confidence in their abilities, open themselves up to chances, and push themselves to learn more.

Everyone has a science lab or project that they remember.

Maybe it was designing a container for an egg drop. Maybe building your own telescope. Projects make connections and get us excited about learning. Mousetrap cars can be that first project that shows students what they can be. They can be engineers, designers, architects, and so much more. The first step is getting them to see it!

Mr. TenBrink
Grades 9-12
  • Southwestern High School
  • Detroit, MI

    • This project will reach 120 students.

    21 donors have given to this project.

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Mousetrap Dragster Kit • Nasco $28.67 13 $372.71

Materials cost

$372.71

Vendor shipping charges

 $37.27

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.59

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$450.57

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$79.51

Total project goal

$530.08

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $530.08

15 Donors

-$528.32

Donations toward project cost

-$450.57

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$77.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

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