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Mrs. Paloscio & Ms. Fink from Staten Island, NY is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Enhance our Creativity!

Help me give my students a Cricut kit, accessories, and blades for the ability to creatively add to their assignments!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Paloscio & Ms. Fink's classroom raised $539

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are from many different cultures, races and beliefs. They want to be able to create work that will show off their abilities and talents. I teach in a Title 1 school which has limited resources. I have 32 students (yes, we are at capacity) and I would like to add some creative ability into our classroom! Reading, writing, math, science and social studies are important but my students need to be able to add some creativity to their projects and assignments.

My Project

A Cricut machine is a computer generated die cut and letter machine. It will help to enhance my students writing, science, social studies and math projects. It will give us the ability to be creative and not take away from instructional time. Art is missing from our classroom. Creativity needs to be enhanced to help students make something they are proud of. We don’t have a lot of extra time to create covers and pictures to go with our work so a Cricut and accessories will give us the ability to accomplish this! Please help my students to become more creative without wasting a lot of time.

Mrs. Paloscio & Ms. Fink PS 41 Stephanie A Vierno School Grades 3-5

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.

Staten Island, NY View local requests

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

32 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
CRICUT EXPLORE AIR 2 CUTTING MACHINE MINT • School Specialty $283.99 1 $283.99
KIT TOOL BASIC CRICUT • School Specialty $35.85 1 $35.85
63316-1012 - Cricut Cutting Mats - StandardGrip, 12" x 12", Pkg of 2 • Blick Art Materials $11.47 2 $22.94
CUTTING MATS CRICUT STANDARD GRIP 12X24 PACK OF 2 • School Specialty $19.66 1 $19.66
BLADES STANDARD FINE POINT REPLACEMENT CRICUT PACK OF 2 • School Specialty $14.41 1 $14.41

Materials cost

$376.85

Vendor shipping charges

$45.34

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.65

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$457.84

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$80.80

Total project goal

$538.64

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$538.64

2 Donors

-$526.14

Donations toward project cost

-$447.22

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$78.92

match offer

-$12.50

Match offer toward project cost

-$10.62

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.88

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$0.00

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