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Mrs. Cruz from Porter, TX is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mrs. Cruz's classroom raised $973

Flash + Environment = UPS Helping us Capture our Rural Area

My students need a flash, tripod, bag, and memory cards for our new camera that we just won.

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Mrs. Cruz Robert L Crippen Elementary School
Porter, TX Grades 3-5

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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 Students

I am extremely excited about my classroom this year! I have 25 wonderful students. They love science and love working hands-on. They want to be able to capture the environment at their fingertips with a digital flash and want to participate in Disney's Planet Challenge without any limitations!

I teach 25 students with the limited resources available at our school, but at times not having technology makes it difficult to teach my students visually.

Ideas cannot be conveyed proficiently without letting them experience it for themselves. My students live in a rural community where most receive free and reduced lunch and attend our Title 1 school. Therefore, funds are extremely limited, but my students are so bright and have so much potential and always come to school with a smile on their face! We need your help with a digital flash because without it, students simply cannot capture all the beauty in the world. My student population is extremely diverse and composed primarily of lower economically disadvantaged children where technology is almost nonexistent at home, and many of whom have never even heard of such technology. Help us be able to introduce technology and all of its benefits Disney Planet and UPS! We want to capture the beauty of our rural community.

My Project

My students need to have the opportunity to compete with opulent areas, by providing us a camera flash and tripod, we will be able to break the class up into two groups and take great beautiful and high quality pictures of the environment. All students will finally be able to take turns. Through the use of a digital flash, tripod, and memory cards my students can picture the beauty of the rural area they live in, save them and then transfer them to a computer. By being able to learn about the environment outdoors, students will be engaged and they will personally take pictures of different habitats near a pond at our school. They will take the pictures back to the classroom and print them, but also discuss their surroundings and use their pictures on their research projects and paste them into journals. The best part is they can insure that they take pictures that are much more clear and not blurred. With a new bag, my students will also learn responsibility by taking turns putting it away.

As you can see, we have to function with numerous setbacks and this project would impact the lives of young learners and encourage them to learn about environmental topics that will allow them to learn how to better care for the rural community.

Allow my students to have a learning experience outdoors and allow them to think outside the box, and engage them in ways that paper simply cannot! We love environmental science. Disney Planet help my students learn more about it with digital technology!

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

25 students impacted 5 donors
Mrs. Cruz Robert L Crippen Elementary School Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Porter, TX View local requests

More than half of 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

25 students impacted 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Canon Digital Gadget Bag 200DG - case for digital photo camera • Best Buy $61.99 1 $61.99
Sunpak VideoPro-M 2 - tripod • Best Buy $115.95 1 $115.95
SanDisk Ultra flash memory card - 8 GB - SDHC • Best Buy $29.99 4 $119.96
Canon Speedlite 580EX II - hot-shoe clip-on flash • Best Buy $469.99 1 $469.99

Materials cost

$767.89

Vendor shipping charges

 $12.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$826.41

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$145.84

Total project goal

$972.25

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $972.25

2 Donors

-$431.00

Donations toward project cost

-$372.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.50

Matching donations from our partners

-$534.01

Match offers toward project cost

-$453.91

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$80.10

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$7.24

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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