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Mrs. Ysteboe from Elon NC is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Putting STEAM in Making

My students need three Little Bits Kits to aid in their understanding of electronic circuits and to help them create prototypes for projects in our makerspace.

  • $599 goal

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My Students

Each morning, as soon as students are allowed in the building, I have students waiting in line to get in our library and work in our makerspace. They create and build everything from our supply of purchased and recycled materials. Our library positively hums with students engaged in making.

As our school is becoming increasingly diverse, we are experiencing more students who live in poverty and who don't have the opportunities that many of their classmates enjoy.

We are not a Title I school which means that these students don't have the benefit of federal dollars that many of the other schools in our school system use. Our school is also striving to incorporate STEAM concepts, both in the classroom and in our makerspace, which opened this past spring.

My Project

Three new Little Bits Kits will allow our students to incorporate electronics in their projects. Houses will have lights and doorbells, cars will use sensors to move -- the possibilities are endless. The NASA space kit will integrate perfectly with the 6th grade science curriculum, and the Arduino Coding Kit will allow students to begin to learn how to code -- a skill they can carry into college.

Our students have a thirst for hands-on materials and they love using higher-order thinking skills to make their creations more complicated.

In twenty-seven years of teaching, I've never seen students so engaged as they are in our makerspace. Your donations will provide more opportunities for our students to employ electronic concepts as they build and create.

Mrs. Ysteboe
Grades 6-8

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
littleBits Electronics Gizmos & Gadgets Kit • Amazon Business $199.95 1 $199.95
littleBits Electronics Space Kit • Amazon Business $149.00 1 $149.00
littleBits Electronics Arduino Coding Kit • Amazon Business $88.99 1 $88.99

Materials cost

$437.94

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $34.16

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.57

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$508.67

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$89.77

Total project goal

$598.44

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $598.44

3 Donors

-$598.44

Donations toward project cost

-$508.67

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$89.77

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 $0.00

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