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Mr. Light from Melbourne, FL is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Garden Project (continued)/Trophy Display Case

Help me give my students the additional resources to work towards our school garden center. Also, our school just won a trophy for our Mission to Mars, our first trophy. So we now need a trophy display case.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Light's classroom raised $908

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My Project

CONGRATUATIONS!!! Our gifted students just won a trophy from the Destination Mars Journalist Mission in a competition with others schools in different STEM activities. This is the first trophy our school has won and we would love to display it in the front office for all to see.

Hopefully this will be an inspiration to others to have a positive impact to our school.

We are planning to fill the trophy case with photographs from different events at our school until we can fill it with more trophies.

For the second part of this project is to continue to build up our Garden Center which had been started by other projects throughout this school. We have several container gardens that are growing vegetables and some that will be growing sunflowers. The sunflowers just started sprouting in our greenhouse and will need to be transplanted into the container garden soon, and that is why we need the garden soil. Again, thank you for everyone's support over the years. I cannot believe how generous people have been.

Mr. Light Dr W J Creel Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Glee Potting Soil: 2 cu ft (50 qt) Compressed Outdoor Indoor Plant Garden Soil with Nutrients, Expands from 0.4 cu ft (Two Pack) • Amazon Business $28.99 16 $463.84
Ghent Glass Shelves For 691K Varsity Display Case • School Specialty $153.71 1 $153.71

Materials cost

$617.55

Vendor shipping charges

$114.37

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.26

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$771.18

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$136.09

Total project goal

$907.27

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$907.27

9 Donors

-$580.26

Donations toward project cost

-$494.72

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$85.54

Matching donations from our partners

-$325.25

Match offers toward project cost

-$276.46

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$48.79

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

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$0.00

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