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Mrs. Blackwell from Upper Marlboro MD is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Smart Lab for Smart Engineering

Help me give my students a smart lab station for creative engagement in the classroom.

  • $1,276 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Project

I have some amazing computer scientist and engineers in my classroom. I want to build a smart lab and one of the stations will be a Microbit station. Having a smart lab will allow my engineers and computer scientist to rotate through stations for engage ing hands on lessons. My plan is to have lessons at each stations and students rotate through creating things from unicorn greeting cards to wearable technology. As part of a stem station smart lab, students would possibly go to the manufacturing station and create a shirt with a heat pressed image. They would them roatate to the Microbit station and sew led lights to the shirt then program the Microbit to make the lights blink. That is just one idea of what students would be able to do at the Microbit station. My idea for the smart lab is to have students own their learning and do the activities that interest them on a rotation.

Mrs. Blackwell
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Strawbees Micro:bit Club • School Specialty $299.00 3 $897.00

Materials cost

$897.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $89.70

Sales tax

 $53.82

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.46

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,083.98

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$191.29

Total project goal

$1,275.27

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,275.27

13 Donors

-$421.66

Donations toward project cost

-$367.16

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$54.50

match offer

-$843.32

Match offer toward project cost

-$716.82

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$126.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.29

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 $0.00

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