Our students are vibrant fifth graders who want to know all about the world around them. Our school is in the Boreum Hill section of Brooklyn, not too far from the Brooklyn Bridge.
Our students are the United Nations, seriously.
They come from diverse cultural backgrounds: the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and many parts of Latin America. Some from families that have lived in the U.S. for many generations, and others whose families are recent immigrants. Our class community is very cohesive; we focus on helping each other, and learning from each other as well.
Our students recently created powerful speeches speaking their truth about how to make our society one they could be proud of. They studied the ideals, and the literary virtues of Dr. Martin Luther King's speeches, and came up with their own. They read their speeches in front of the Brooklyn Court Houses to a large audience, and here in our school parents and the larger school community. Needless to say, we are very proud of them.
My Project
In our class community, we value technology and the opportunities it provides in enhancing our learning and curiosities. Currently our public school has 5 fifth grade classes and 130 fifth graders that share 30 Chromebooks. This means that 130 students only have the chance to use a computer for one 45 minute period each day. We believe, in 2017-2018, that each child should have access to a computer throughout the entire school day. The goal of this project is to provide all 30 students in our class with a Chromebook computer to use as needed, in all content areas, everyday. Unfortunately, we are restricted in the quantity of Chromebooks we are permitted to ask for at this time. We hope to acquire 10 from this project and 20 more in the near future.
2017 Newest Premium High Performance Samsung 11.6 HD Chromebook - Intel Dual-Core Celeron N3050 Up to 2.16GHz, 2GB DDR3, 16GB eMMC Hard Drive, 802.11ac, Bluetooth, HDMI, HD Webcam, USB 3.0, Chrome OS
• Amazon Business
$187.89
10
$1,878.90
Materials cost
$1,878.90
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$28.18
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$1,937.08
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$341.84
Total project goal
$2,278.92
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$2,278.92
18 Donors
-$2,249.51
Donations toward project cost
-$1,915.83
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$333.68
match offer
-$25.00
Match offer toward project cost
-$21.25
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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