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Mrs. Rubio from Somerton AZ is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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ELC's Future Engineers Need a MAKERSPACE

My students need a Makerspace with waffle blocks, brain flakes, Skolzy Straws, magnetic tiles, building blocks, marble race coster, and brick building baseplates.

  • $628 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

ELC has Arizona's future engineers and I believe that Valle Del Encanto Learning Center has the potential to prepare them. As a teacher in a low-income and Title I School I believe we need to expose students to think like engineers, so they can solve any task they ever come across. I see our future in them.

Despite the many challenges they may come upon, school should be a place for them to create meaningful learning experiences that will last a lifetime.

My Project

We are eager to create a MAKERSPACE that provides students with hands-on, creative ways to encourage students' to design, experiment, build, and invent as they are engaged in engineering. Please invest in Arizona's future. Your contribution will help students prepare to become future engineers.

Our students will use these materials to explore their ability through building, creating, and innovating their designs using the Engineering Process.

We need your help to create our engineering MAKERSPACE so students can share supplies, skills, ideas, and collaborate while building. The MAKERSPACE at Valle Del Encanto will attract diverse learners to discover the engineer in them.

Mrs. Rubio
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Peel-and-Stick Baseplates - 10 Inch x 10 Inch Baseplate - Blue 4 Pack Compatible with all Major Brands • Amazon Business $18.99 5 $94.95
EMIDO 480 Pcs Building Toy Building Blocks Bars Different Shape Educational Construction Engineering Set 3D Puzzle , Interlocking Creative Connecting Kit, A Great STEM Toy for Both Boys and Girls! • Amazon Business $16.99 3 $50.97
Creative Kids Brain Flakes – Large 1400 Piece Interlocking Plastic Disc Set for Safe, Fun, Creative Building – Educational STEM Construction Toy for Boys & Girls - Non Toxic – Ages 3 and Up • Amazon Business $24.99 2 $49.98
BLAGOO Building Blocks 153 pcs Plastic Sticks Learning Set in Creative Car Case • Amazon Business $19.99 2 $39.98
SHAWE Kids Toy, Coglets 80 Pieces Gear Interlocking Building Set,10 Various Colors,Learning Color Cognition,Make Wonderful World,Run Wild Imagination • Amazon Business $12.99 3 $38.97
130 Pieces - Magnetic Building Sticks Building Blocks Set, Elongdi Educational Toys Magnetic Blocks Sticks Stacking Toys Set, Non-Toxic Building Toy 3D Puzzle with Storage Bag • Amazon Business $18.99 2 $37.98
Premium Silicone Building Block Tape for Lego Bricks, 10 Rolls + Scissors (By Zuede) Reusable Non-Toxic Self-Adhesive Baseplate Strips for Kids, Compatible with Lego Products, 10 colors (3 ft. each) • Amazon Business $16.90 2 $33.80
Marble Run Toy, FUNTOK Marble Race Coaster Set Marble Run Railway Toys Construction Building Blocks Toys Set Gift For Kids Toddler 105pcs • Amazon Business $16.56 2 $33.12
400 Piece Straws and Wheels Connector Set Educational Building Model Toy Promotes Cognitive Development, Fine Motor Skills and Spatial Reasoning • Amazon Business $30.99 1 $30.99
Little Tikes Waffle Blocks Bag (100 Piece) • Amazon Business $13.44 2 $26.88
AGARE 500 PC Bars Different Shape Creative and Educational Building Building Block Toy - 3D Puzzle With a Plastic Storage Box • Amazon Business $16.95 1 $16.95
Four Brothers 20 Pack Spacerail Replacement Steel Balls (Pack of 20) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99

Materials cost

$463.56

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$33.14

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$533.65

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$94.17

Total project goal

$627.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$627.82

3 Donors

-$623.41

Donations toward project cost

-$533.65

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$89.76

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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$0.00

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