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Ms. Tavares from Houston, TX is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Photo is Worth a Thousand Words

My students need 4 digital cameras with memory cards.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Tavares's classroom raised $478

This project is fully funded

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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

"Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination," said sociologist and educator Daniel Bell. There are no limits to what my art students can accomplish with a combination of both!

I teach art in Texas to 800, low sociol-economic students from Per-kindergarten-5th grade, who attend art class for 45 minutes once every six days.

and that is never enough time! They are always asking for more! Due to this, I open my art room for 30 minutes before the school day begins and the students come in droves! They use that time to complete projects, research artists or show me artwork that they have completed at home.

My Project

Art is not just paper, paint and clay anymore. Art becomes more and more technological as we move further into the 2000's. As school budgets are spent on technology, the majority of this is spent for classroom use, not the art room. Digital cameras would be a wonderful addition to our art room. Students would be able to photograph artwork that they have created and upload it to our classroom computer. They would learn the rudiments of photography, a medium that, thus far, has taken a backseat, due to minimal resources.The possibilities are endless! Technology is an important part of the art room, and cameras would help my students begin using today's devices to create and manipulate art, anytime they wanted to. With this purchase, a whole new world would be available to my budding artists.

Every student should have the opportunity to have digital cameras in their art room.

Resources like this will help the students become life long learners in the technological world of today.

Ms. Tavares Hollibrook 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.

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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

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W800 - digital camera • Best Buy for Business $79.99 4 $319.96
SanDisk - 16GB SDHC Memory Card • Best Buy for Business $12.59 4 $50.36

Materials cost

$370.32

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.55

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$405.87

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$71.62

Total project goal

$477.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $477.49

4 Donors

-$277.49

Donations toward project cost

-$235.87

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.62

match offer

-$200.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$170.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.00

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 $0.00

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