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Mrs. Kaplinsky from Long Beach, CA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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3, 2, 1 Roll Film! Student Newscasts, Skits & Presentations

My students need a digital camcorder to record their presentations, skits, and newscasts and to reflect on their presentation abilities and to share it with wider audiences.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Kaplinsky's classroom raised $613

This project is fully funded

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.

Do you want to help third graders to become better public speakers, presenters, and to share their hard work with others? Help out my dedicated students and their desire to share their work with an audience. Even though our school is in a low-income, high poverty struggling neighborhood, you wouldn't necessarily know it when you enter.

We lack all the tools to create and share various types of presentations based off of student-chosen research activities & interests. Our students have powerful stories to tell, interests to dig deeper into, and crave the chance to share with others.

Students thrive with an audience and with the ability to critique their own work and make improvements. With a digital camera, we could record our "newscasts", skits, dramatizations, and research projects and review them and share them with our peers and our families.

You will make it possible for my students to reach for the stars and be a star to our school, and for our community who may now get a closer look at the amazing talents that are inside our students (and waiting for their debut!)

Mrs. Kaplinsky Bret Harte Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Long Beach, CA View local requests

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

20 students impacted 15donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
SONY DCRSR45 HARD DRIVE HANDYCAM CAMCORDER -- Sony Camcorders; Hard Drive Handycam DCR-SR45 • Quill Corporation $404.99 1 $404.99

Materials cost

$404.99

Vendor shipping charges

$40.50

Sales tax

$29.36

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.12

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$502.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$110.20

Total project goal

$612.20

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$612.20

12 Donors

-$590.59

Donations toward project cost

-$502.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$88.59

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$21.61

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$0.00

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