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Gamers United: Using Gaming to Enhance Stem, Attendance and Diversity

Help me give my students an opportunity to use gaming to enhance STEM reasoning skills, improve school attendance and create a safe space for diverse learners.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Jenkins's classroom raised $1,163

This project is fully funded

My Project

When asked what clubs they would like to see at our school. Students suggested a gaming club and while initially this seemed like a farfetched idea, after talking to students, I have come to the following benefits of creating our Gamers Unite Club that enhance the academic and social emotional needs of students. Students selected the club name, Gamers Unite, to represent the different students that came forward to participate. Gamers Unite can excite students to attend school regularly, enhance their STEM reasoning and enhance school climate through improved social relationships.

Gaming can have a positive effect on students’ STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) performance.

The games chosen for Gamers Unite will enhance students’ abilities through experience with multi-step problem solving, making predictions, analyzing patterns, abstract thinking and reasoning and build stamina related to productive struggle. These are fundamental skills in STEM learning.

Students interested in gaming represent a wide spectrum of diversity including varied socioeconomic status, language, academic ability, age, and gender. The activity brings these diverse students together in a space where they all ‘speak the same language’ and are able to use their diverse skills to support one another. This gives students the opportunity to identify and hone skillsets that they may not have known they possessed and build a level of confidence that will transfer to the classroom.

By supporting Gamers Unite with a Nintendo Switch and games, you are supporting students’ school attendance, helping to enhance students’ STEM reasoning skills, and creating a safe space for diverse learners to be welcomed and celebrated.

Mr. Jenkins J.O. Wilson Elementary School Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Nintendo - Switch with Neon Blue and Neon Red Joy-Con • Best Buy Education $306.45 1 $306.45
Insignia - 55" Class F30 Series LED 4K UHD Smart Fire TV • Best Buy Education $301.66 1 $301.66
Mario Party Superstars - Nintendo Switch Nintendo Switch Lite • Best Buy Education $59.99 1 $59.99
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Nintendo Switch • Best Buy Education $53.99 1 $53.99
MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 3 The Black Order Standard Edition - Nintendo Switch • Best Buy Education $52.99 1 $52.99

Materials cost

$775.08

Vendor shipping charges

 $125.00

Sales tax

 $46.50

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.63

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$988.21

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$174.39

Total project goal

$1,162.60

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,162.60

3 Donors

-$547.74

Donations toward project cost

-$502.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.89

match offer

-$571.01

Match offer toward project cost

-$485.36

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$85.65

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$43.85

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