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Ms. Chef Steph from Erial, NJ is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Creative Foods Class in Need

Help me give my students these materials. As a culinary arts teacher with up to 24 students in my class, I only have 6 burners to work with. Adding these to the kitchen will help out a lot.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Chef Steph's classroom raised $299

This project is fully funded

My Students

I teach Creative Foods and Nutrition along with Culinary Arts and Hospitality Careers. My students are amazing. Hard working and dedicated. They love to come to school to cook. For some of them it makes their day. They love to be in the kitchen and with a hybrid schedule and a cut budget, it's tough to keep up with demand of food. I am trying to suppliment my budget to only buy food and reach out to vendors and sponsors to help me out in other ways. My students deserve to have the best equipment and the best opportunity to create any dish they desire. I want to teach as many students as I can a great life skill they will use forever. Not just making high end food, but simple, cheap and nutritious food they can depend on when they need it. I am here to help them develop into to good human beings.

My Project

I am a culinary arts teacher with up to 24 students in a class. I only have a 6 burner stove for them to work on, so they all have to take turns. Meaning some may not even cook on the same day as their peers. It is hard for the students to learn when they have to wait. It's frustrating for students to have to sit and watch when there are ways to make them all work at the same time.

If my students were able to have the electric burners at their station, they will be able to learn more and faster than before.

Ms. Chef Steph Timber Creek High School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than half 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

130 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Ovente 1000W Single Hot Plate Electric Countertop Coil Stove 6 Inch with 5 Level Temperature Control & Stainless Steel Base, Easy Clean Portable Cooktop Burner for Cooking & Camping, Black BGC101B • Amazon Business $17.24 7 $120.68
Cuisinart 622-20 Chef's Classic Nonstick Hard-Anodized 8-Inch Open Skillet,Black • Amazon Business $19.95 5 $99.75

Materials cost

$220.43

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.31

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$253.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$44.78

Total project goal

$298.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$298.52

2 Donors

-$298.52

Donations toward project cost

-$253.74

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.78

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$0.00

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