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Mr. Luft from Richmond, CA is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building a Hands-On Classroom

Help me give my students a 3D printer that will help give us a tool to help realize our plans, build our tools and produce take home and in class learning aids!

  • $930 goal

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

Our community of learners are driven, curious and eager to explore. Sourcing appropriate and practical learning tools that match that enthusiasm while being realistic purchases for our teaching team has been an ongoing source of challenge.

My teaching team is dreaming of a library of manipulatives for our learners to build fine motor skills and to drive engagement with our literacy, science and math goals.

A majority of our learners have and will enter into our classroom with their primary fine motor skills being developed through heavy tablet use. As such we have a high need for tools that emphasize spatial awareness and dexterity play in addition to providing grounding for abstract concepts beyond repeated recording on paper.

My pragmatic short term goal is to utilize a 3d printer and the vast library of available files to produce the tools that we need for our in-class ambitions and to finally put us in a place where we can send resources home with students. Providing families with learning tools has been a choice that we have constantly needed to balance against what we have available in our own classrooms.

Our expanded goals are to provide tools for our gardening and outdoor space engagement ambitions, to provide student growth and incentive pieces and to introduce the connection between imagination, technology and engineering.

A long term goal would be exploring the benefits this tool could provide to our site as a whole with an emphasis on our upper grade big buddies.

I recognize that a 3d printer is a tool with challenges! It has resource needs, a requirement for research, patience and ongoing investment of time. I feel that those costs would be justified by the freedom to produce the tools that our learners would greatly benefit from.

Thank you for your consideration!

Mr. Luft Nystrom Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Richmond, CA View local requests

Nearly all 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

70 students impacted 2donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Creality K1C 3D Printer 600mm/s High Speed Printing Al Camera Observant All-Metal Extruder Kit Direct Extruder Auto Leveling Stable Cube Frame 3D Printers Carbon Fiber Filaments • Amazon Business $563.02 1 $563.02
SUNLU 250g PLA Filament 1.75mm Bundle,3D Printer Filament Bundle Multicolor, Neatly Wound PLA Filament, Individually Vacuum Packed,250g Spool,8 Rolls,Black+White+Grey+Transparent+Red+Blue+Orange+Green • Amazon Business $43.99 2 $87.98
SUNLU PLA 3D Printer Filament PLA Filament 1.75mm, Neatly Wound PLA 3D Printing Filament 1.75mm, Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.02 mm, Fit Most FDM 3D Printers, 1kg Spool (2.2lbs), PLA Black • Amazon Business $17.90 1 $17.90
SUNLU PLA 3D Printer Filament PLA Filament 1.75mm, Neatly Wound PLA 3D Printing Filament, Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.02 mm, Fit Most FDM 3D Printer, 1kg Spool (2.2lbs), Good for Lithophane, PLA White • Amazon Business $17.90 1 $17.90

Materials cost

$686.80

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $62.84

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.30

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$789.94

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$139.40

Total project goal

$929.34

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $929.34

1 Donor

-$464.67

Donations toward project cost

-$394.97

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$69.70

match offer

-$464.67

Match offer toward project cost

-$394.97

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$69.70

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 $0.00

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