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Solar Power Festival

My students need solar ovens, solar energy color changing beads, and a solar-powered dragonfly kit to demonstrate the sun as an alternative energy source.

Mrs. Edwards Ronald Brown Academy Annex

Detroit, MI Grades 3-5

My Students

Every child knows that we should reduce, reuse, and recycle. What children don't know is that there are other options besides oil and coal that can create electricity and run our world.

My students are inner-city children who love learning.

The absolutely adore hands-on projects and having fun with science. I try to create as much of a lab environment as possible in order to teach them the basics they will need in order to become the future scientists of the United States and of the world.

My Project

By holding a Solar Energy Festival this spring, students will learn through fun activities how the sun can do things we normally rely on gas or other electricity sources to perform. Cooking with solar ovens, creating a bracelet with beads that change colors with the energy from the sun, and a display of a dragonfly flapping its wings using solar power instead of batteries or an electric outlet will allow the students to understand there are alternative sources out there.

We all need to do our share to help the environment and save the world we live in.

By providing an afternoon's worth of lessons through this project, you will help over 300 students learn about how they can do things to change the world. They may not do it all right now, but they are the future scientists and engineers who will help implement the changes we need to keep the Earth healthy.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

300 students impacted 6 donors

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Mrs. Edwards Ronald Brown Academy Annex Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Detroit, MI View local requests 300 students impacted 6donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total

Solar Energy Beads pack/1000 • Carolina Biological Supply Company $30.16 3 $90.48

Solar Oven • Carolina Biological Supply Company $51.25 5 $256.25

Solar-Powered Dragonfly Kit • Carolina Biological Supply Company $50.59 1 $50.59

Materials cost			$397.32
Vendor shipping charges			$39.73
Sales tax			$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee			$5.96
Fulfillment labor & materials			$35.00
Total project cost			$478.01
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			$84.35
Total project goal			$562.36
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal			$562.36
3 Donors			-$281.17
Donations toward project cost			-$239.00
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$42.17
match offer			-$281.19
Match offer toward project cost			-$239.01
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$42.18
Still needed View calculation Hide calculation			$0.00

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Solar Power Festival

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