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Mrs. Bell from West Valley City, UT is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Sharp Pencil Equals A Sharp Mind

My students need pencil sharpeners.

  • $169 goal

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Mrs. Bell has another project! Donate to Snack Attack to help her classroom.

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You can complete this project for $208.
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Mrs. Bell has another project! Donate to Snack Attack to help her classroom.

All donations currently matched!
You can complete this project for $208.
1.5X

My Students

My students need pencil sharpeners to help them complete projects and activities in the classroom.

My students are very diverse learners who need pencil sharpeners to complete their assignments.

My students are special and unique. Some students are refugees to our school. Some were born and raised here. Our school theme is: Getting The Knowledge To Go To College. Everyone in this school has the goal to send our students to college.

My Project

The students in my classroom incorporate art into all subjects. We need these durable pencil sharpeners to sharpen our colored pencils as well as our classroom pencils. The projects the students are going to be creating in the future will need to have color and without a pencil sharpener we cannot complete these activities.

The donation of pencil sharpeners will limit or eliminate disruptions in my classroom.

Students will have a place to sharpen their pencils and continue working. We also need these durable sharpeners so that we can sharpen both regular pencils and colored pencils.

Mrs. Bell Hunter Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

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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West Valley City, UT View local requests

More than half of 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

65 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Pencil SharpenerElectricGray • Grainger $33.75 3 $101.25

Materials cost

$101.25

Vendor shipping charges

 $10.12

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$142.89

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$25.22

Total project goal

$168.11

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $168.11

4 Donors

-$131.34

Donations toward project cost

-$113.14

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.20

match offer

-$35.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$29.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.77

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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