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Mrs. Ruiz from Harker Heights, TX is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Aspiring Scientist in the Making

My students need lab coats to be inspired this year. When they enter a middle school classroom next year, I want science to be marked as their favorite subject.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Ruiz's classroom raised $381

This project is fully funded

My Students

I teach in a diverse setting where students identified as learning disabled, English language learners, and at-risk spend their day trying to be inspired by their learning. This is a tough task as I am competing with television, video games, and everything else that's deemed "cool" by a 10 year old.

I want my students to share with their parents and their friends all the "cool' science they are learning in the 5th grade.

My students are mostly military dependents who move in out of schools yearly. It's important that I tap into their interests and inspire them to make scientific connections in their everyday life and hopefully towards a science career when they graduate from high school. Our school has a small time frame in order to make lasting impressions on students who change schools yearly.

My Project

I am fortunate to work in a school where the basics are provided and I am able to set up interesting and engaging labs for my students, but I know that lab coats would set the mood and the tone for learning. They would become scientific and cool. They would remember the year they wore lab coats in science.

This donation would make a difference to subgroups of our population that are not performing well on state assessments.

Lab coats would get their attention and inspire them to see science as cool.

Mrs. Ruiz Mountain View 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.

Harker Heights, TX View local requests

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

45 students impacted 3donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lab Coat Tyvek Med Pack Of 10 • Sargent-Welch $71.10 2 $142.20
Lab Coat Tyvek Laboritory Grade Pack Of 10 • Sargent-Welch $71.10 2 $142.20

Materials cost

$284.40

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.27

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$323.67

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$57.12

Total project goal

$380.79

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $380.79

2 Donors

-$98.00

Donations toward project cost

-$83.30

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.70

match offer

-$282.79

Match offer toward project cost

-$240.37

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$42.42

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 $0.00

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