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Mr. Morrissey from Bluffs IL is requesting computers & tablets through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Big Dreams in a Small Town

Help me give my students a chance to take part in the growing esports scene. These laptops will allow our small school to be in the same league as much larger schools!

  • $7,952 goal

This project expired on March 31, 2022.

This project expired on March 31, 2022.

My Students

The students that I work with are from a low income region in Illinois. The school does offer free and reduced breakfast and lunch, and we do out best to make sure our students have everything in order to have their needs fulfilled. Unfortunately, where our school is lacking is in after school programs and extracurricular activities. My school has sports and FFA, but if a child isn't interested in one of those then we really do not offer them anything. We have no music program, or drama, or robotics. We do have students who want more from the school though.

We are a one to one school, and many of our students have thrived and developed excellent 21st century skills, but the school doesn't offer anything to push those skills further.

Many of the students here yearn for experiences that they see other schools get to have; they want to have the same opportunities that other more well to do areas have. I believe that these students deserve to not be left behind.

My Project

The laptops will be used to help students in this small community take place in the growing competitive esports scene. Esports has many STEM benefits such as using team-work to problem solve and analyzing data. Esports will also encourage more students to be active participants in school.

Students of today are in a different world than even 10 years ago.

We need to meet the students where they are. We can use esports to reach more students, and provide them more opportunity to further develop their skills. Illinois may have forgotten about these kids, but let's show them we haven't.

Mr. Morrissey
Never Before Funded Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dell - G15 - 15.6' FHD Gaming Laptop -Intel Core i7 - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti - 512GB SSD - Black • Best Buy Education $1,325.81 5 $6,629.05

Materials cost

$6,629.05

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$99.44

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$6,758.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$1,192.67

Total project goal

$7,951.16

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