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Ms. K. from Columbus OH is requesting a class trip through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Connecting With COSI: Help Our STEM Grow!

My students need Center of Science and Industry (COSI) activities for exploration and exposure of STEM beyond our school classrooms, our community garden and neighborhood.

  • $1,230 goal

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My Students

Our students LOVE science for its hands-on exploration and experimentation. We want to open their eyes to more science on a much grander scale.

Our STEM school is a priority school on its way up.

Our children have a wide variety of stories, some devastating, some glorious. The staff changed greatly this 2013-2014 school year with a new principal and new teachers at every grade level. Our staff goes to great lengths to make certain that our students' basic needs and learning needs are met and that each one of our students feels loved and cared for. "We are the PRIDE of the WESTSIDE," is something that we say together as a school every morning. We aim to push our students to be their best, in the classroom, on the playground and in our neighborhood. With such a diverse community, our other aim for this year is to be a community. "Growing and Changing with the Times" is our STEM theme this school year. This outlook has much to do with our movement to improve in all areas simultaneously.

My Project

COSI is offering various avenues for Highland to connect more soundly with them and the science world. Kurt Huffman, the Director of Community and School Partnerships at COSI is a former elementary school teacher and principal. Because we want to grow a strong partnership between our school and COSI, he developed three packages of offerings from COSI to fit our students' academic and learning needs. We would like to begin this year with the first package which costs $1,000. This includes either a full school field trip, a COSI on Wheels visit that the entire school can experience, or 7 COSI in the classroom sessions. The other offerings Kurt created cost $2,000 and $3,000 with increased activities and interaction for students at COSI and at our school. We are growing and changing with the times at Highland, meaning we would be overjoyed to be able to get the students interacting with COSI and STEM to the fullest this year. We can start doing this with $1,000.

Our school is a Title I, priority STEM school.

COSI is a community asset which can assist our school in becoming a more developed and established STEM school. Our students have little knowledge of the outside world. We can broaden their horizon tremendously by creating strong ties with COSI. COSI is a well-connected resource linked with Chemical Abstracts Services, Battelle, and the Ohio State University. COSI aims to inspire; we aim to do the same.

Ms. K.
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Component Company Total
Activity Center of Science and Industry $1,000.00

Trip cost

$1,000.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$15.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,045.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$184.41

Total project goal

$1,229.41

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,229.41

10 Donors

-$935.25

Donations toward project cost

-$883.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$51.75

match offer

-$190.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$161.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$104.16

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$0.00

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