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Mrs. Semonelle from Middletown DE is requesting computers & tablets through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Computer Companions Program for High Schoolers and Assisted Living Patients

Help me give my students tablets to communicate in a virtual pen pal program with elderly patients or assisted living residents.

  • $930 goal

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My Students

Family, Career and Community Leaders of America is Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) is a national Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) for young men and women in Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) education in public and private school through grade 12. FCCLA offers intra-curricular resources and opportunities for students to pursue careers that support families.

FCCLA students have come up with an idea for Computer Companions.

COVID-19 has hindered social-emotional relationships with many elderly in nursing homes. Not being able to visit their loved ones takes a toll on a person's mental health and physical well-being. My FCCLA students want to choose a companion in an assisted living or nursing home and communicate with that companion at least weekly. Loneliness of elderly patients has skyrocketed due to COVID-19 according to the many nurses working in these homes. And students want to help! What a wonderful idea they have to help strengthen relationships, especially with our most vulnerable population!

My Project

I am a high school teacher and adviser for an organization called Family, Career and Community Leaders of America as well as Advisor for the National Honor Society. Both of those organizations are community service based. My students are eager to help the community, but COVID is really putting a damper on that. So we came up with the idea for Computer Companions. My idea is to collaborate with an assisted living facility to create profiles of residents that need a companion, or just something to look forward to. The high schoolers will then be paired with a companion based on interests.

The high schoolers really want to reach patients and residents who can't get visitors, or who would love to get a video or letter from a high schooler.

The high schoolers are committed to creating at least 1 prerecorded video per week for a minimum of 12 weeks, but they've been encouraged to continue through the entire school year. The videos would be put into a Google drive, where the nursing staff would have access to them and would deliver them to the residents. The residents can then respond to the high schooler, and kind of like a pen pal, but their response would be through videos.

We have discussed this idea with several nursing homes, but they all said the same thing-This is a great idea, but we don't have the technology to run this program.

The purchase of these tablets would enable the students and elderly to communicate as much as they want! It would make the students and community happy!

Mrs. Semonelle
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Amazon - Fire 7 2019 release - 7'- Tablet - 16GB - Twilight Blue • Best Buy Education $53.06 10 $530.60
Cover Case for Amazon Fire 7 (9th Generation - 2019 release) - Charcoal Black • Best Buy Education $21.82 10 $218.20

Materials cost

$748.80

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.23

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$790.03

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$139.42

Total project goal

$929.45

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $929.45

1 Donor

-$929.45

Donations toward project cost

-$790.03

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$139.42

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