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Mr. Gomez, Ralph from Los Angeles, CA is requesting materials related to food, clothing & hygiene through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Scales for Our Science Labs

My students need scales to use in science labs to analyze data.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Gomez, Ralph's classroom raised $184

This project is fully funded

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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

Our students are inner city, at-risk students living in between East Hollywood and downtown Los Angeles, a city filled with dreams and filled with life's harsh reality. Their school and city are contradictions of the truth. It is a location where the imaginary high school show "GLEE" is filmed, but the reality of high school for them is parents that work nights, single-parent households, teen pregnancy, and other issues of inner-city youth.

Our students are filled with the knowledge and glamor of Hollywood so close they can touch it, but it is still worlds away from their reality.

Our students are humble and grateful kids who do not expect much but are thankful and surprised when they receive anything. My dream is to make all my classes their favorite so they can forget about everything else and focus on what is going on in class. I want them to love education as I do, so that it can do what it did for me because I, too, came from a similar environment.

My Project

There are many labs in our science class where we need scales to measure out results. We currently have 3 working scales for 3 teaches that teach a total of 18 classes/over 300 students. This last week we had to scales were students lost about half an hour just to measure results. I love doing labs in class and nothing will stop us from doing them. I do, however, want my students to have supplies to better analyze data.

We need scales that work for every group and not spending to much time waiting and not being productive.

Time in class will be spent on what matters, which is understanding and analyzing data to form logical thoughts.

Mr. Gomez, Ralph Academic Leadership Community Miguel Contreras Learning Complex Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all 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

145 students impacted 2donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
AMIR Digital Kitchen Scale, 500g/ 0.01g Pro Cooking scale with Back-Lit LCD Display, Accuracy Pocket Food Scale, 6 Units, Auto Off, Tare, PCS Function, Stainless Steel, Batteries Included (Silver) • Amazon Business $11.38 10 $113.80

Materials cost

$113.80

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $10.41

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.71

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$155.92

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$27.52

Total project goal

$183.44

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $183.44

2 Donors

-$179.91

Donations toward project cost

-$155.92

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.99

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.53

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 $0.00

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