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Mrs. Chamberlain Engel from Hayward CA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Come On, Makey Our Day!

Help me give my students a Makey Makey Classroom STEM pack so they can get hands-on experience with engineering and coding!

  • $947 goal

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My Students

My seventh- and eighth-grade students are an exuberant bunch of teens who love to socialize and have fun. My students are diversity personified—from painfully shy to audacious, from studious to silly, from spoiled to neglected, from being treasured to experiencing trauma.

After 18 months of being isolated from their friends and teachers, they are still trying to navigate the return to school and academics.

Many of them are have developed anxieties that may potentially take years to overcome. Getting back to normal hasn't come soon enough—we need to mitigate the learning loss and social isolation they have experienced for the past 18 months. Unfortunately, many of them have lost close family members to COVID and are struggling with grief as well.

Although I can't solve these problems, I continue to do my very best to provide my students with learning opportunities that will excite them and allow them to focus on better days ahead.

My Project

My middle school technology students love to play and get hands-on with creative engineering and coding projects. The Makey Makey Classroom STEM Kit extends beyond the screen and brings engineering and coding concepts to life in ways that are sure to engage my students' curiosity and get them excited about engineering and coding!

With this Makey Makey, students can make a bunch of projects: for example, they can turn everyday objects into touchpads, craft their own circuit boards, and make musical circuits with items around the classroom.

I truly believe that all students can become makers if given the opportunities to experiment and explore. After all, who WOULDN'T want to create a piano made with BANANAS?

Mrs. Chamberlain Engel
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Makey Makey STEM Pack Classroom Invention Literacy Kit from JoyLabz - Hands-on Technology Learning Fun - Science Education - 1000s of Engineering and Computer Coding Activities - Ages 8 and Up • Amazon Business $699.95 1 $699.95

Materials cost

$699.95

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$64.05

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$804.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$141.97

Total project goal

$946.47

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$946.47

1 Donor

-$409.75

Donations toward project cost

-$409.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Matching donations from our partners

-$464.41

Match offers toward project cost

-$394.75

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$69.66

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$72.31

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$0.00

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Project Activity

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