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Ms. Batty from Durham NC is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Biotechnology Labs for Our Future Scientists!

Help me give my students biotechnology kits to give them real world lab experience.

  • $1,134 goal

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My Students

My favorite part about teaching is getting to enjoy my student's personalities. Each one of my students has their own individual and strong personality. No two student is the same which means that each student brings something different to the classroom. I like to step back quietly and just observe them interacting with each other. Like I said before, they have strong personalities and aren't afraid to let them shine. I truly appreciate this quality about them.

My Biotechnology students are incredibly curious.

They are always asking questions in order to dig deeper into the topic we are on. This often leads to impromptu class discussions. Sometimes I'll have a student who knows a nuance about our current topic and will get excited and tell it to the class. I love when I learn something too!

My Project

I've chosen kits that will help them be able to do the most common biotechnology and microbiology lab procedures: restriction digestions, transformation, purification, and gel and polyacrylamide electrophoresis. I've also chosen these particular kits because they are the coolest way to learn these techniques. Our ultimate goal is to insert a gene for bioluminescence (from a jellyfish) into bacterial cells. If done correctly we will make bacteria glow!

I want to give my students a chance to get hands on experience at learning how to conduct the most common biotechnology lab procedures.

With these skills they will be able to apply for internships with confidence.

Ms. Batty
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Carolina Vertical Dual Gel Electrophoresis Chamber • Carolina Biological Supply Company $357.79 1 $357.79
Restriction Mapping of Lambda DNA Kit with CarolinaBLU (with perishables) • Carolina Biological Supply Company $148.86 1 $148.86
Green Gene Colony Transformation 8-Station Kit, Module 1 (with perishables) • Carolina Biological Supply Company $107.10 1 $107.10
Purification of Green Fluorescent Protein 8-Station Kit, Module 3 (electrophoresis) (with perishables) • Carolina Biological Supply Company $105.57 1 $105.57
Purification of Green Fluorescent Protein 8-Station Kit, Module 2 (purification) (with perishables) • Carolina Biological Supply Company $55.35 1 $55.35

Materials cost

$774.67

Vendor shipping charges

 $86.65

Sales tax

 $60.42

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.62

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$963.36

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$170.00

Total project goal

$1,133.36

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,133.36

19 Donors

-$938.39

Donations toward project cost

-$818.88

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$119.51

match offer

-$170.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$144.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$25.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$25.00

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 $0.00

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