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Mr. Chambers from Kansas City, MO is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Creating a Tech-Savvy Classroom

My students need an iPad.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Chambers's classroom raised $599

This project is fully funded

My Students

Students at our school attend often while facing critical challenges at home and in the community. Many students attend because of the inspiration and challenge provided in our classrooms, as well as the relationships that we are able to build. Increasing technology opens new doors every day.

Students at this urban school in Missouri are driven to succeed.

When placed in a challenging, tech-savvy classroom, they have shown the ability and drive to create projects that are both interesting and helpful to the community which our school serves. Students have been through challenges themselves, and many have a great desire to give back to the community by conducting projects that are real and meaningful. Unfortunately, a lack of access to technology makes it more difficult to plan and carry out these projects. Not impossible, mind you. We're still doing amazing things every day. Just more difficult.

My Project

Over the past few years, the school district has inched towards a one-to-one technology program. Like many urban schools, there is grant money available to buy the technology, but there is often a lack of resources to build the type of infrastructure that is required for a tech-savvy classroom to truly take off. While the students and teachers have great access to technology during the school day, teachers cannot access the technology easily outside of school when much of the planning process takes place. Therefore, many of the projects and activities conducted with our set of iPads is planned on a PC - this results in a lot of glitches. As much as I wish I could say otherwise, high school students start to check out the more glitches occur! An iPad to take home on the weekend would make the integration of the iPads available to the students much more seamless. At that point, the technology can be used more towards the goal of pushing student curiosity and innovation.

Your donation to this project is a donation to help support the movement of education into the 21st century.

Many careers require that employees be tech-savvy. It only makes sense that as we educate young people, we do so in a tech-savvy manner. Access to an iPad during after-school hours when the planning of projects and activities takes place will help me to increase the real-world learning of my students.

Mr. Chambers Center High School Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than three‑quarters of 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Apple® iPad® mini Wi-Fi + Cellular - tablet - iOS 6 - 16 GB - 7.9 - 3G, 4G - Verizon • Best Buy for Business $459.99 1 $459.99

Materials cost

$459.99

Vendor shipping charges

 $12.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.90

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$508.89

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$89.80

Total project goal

$598.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $598.69

3 Donors

-$150.00

Donations toward project cost

-$127.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.50

Matching donations from our partners

-$448.69

Match offers toward project cost

-$381.39

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$67.30

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 $0.00

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