My students need two t-shirt presses to begin their own campus t-shirt business.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Chung's classroom raised $1,451
This project is fully funded
Celebrating 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
Are our students taught to be business owners or are they taught to work for someone else? When one of my students was asked this at an education panel, he stated the latter and as a teacher at his school, I couldn't disagree.
I teach at a non-screened 6th - 12th grade public school located in the poorest Congressional district in the country.
My students are some of the most amazing, passionate, reflective, and charismatic young people that I have had the pleasure of knowing in my eight years as an educator. They work very hard at every task that they are given and they aspire to be successful and do great things for themselves and their community.
And yet, while our school, like many other schools, is tireless in our work towards raising student achievement in areas like literacy, mathematics, and science, we have not effectively taught financial literacy to our students in a way that will a) engage our students and b) make it relevant to their lives. Enter Project Ink: our school's first after school / elective program designed to teach students the entrepreneurial skills and financial literacy skills needed to be successful in a world that functions largely on business transactions and money.
My Project
Although Project Ink will initially start as an after school program, students engaged in the process will soon become the "CEOs" of their own t-shirt company. With the heat press machine and iron-on transfers, my students will be able to design, produce, and manage a t-shirt business that uses our school's logo to sell whole-sale products to both our school and our campus's community. Students will be responsible for all the charts, graphs, and mathematical calculations needed to ensure a successful business as well as become familiar with computer skills like ExCel. As a result, students in the program will also be engaged in building our community's school spirit by simply sharing "our brand" with others.
Like many other children that come from my school's surrounding community, my students enter the classroom with a variety of cards stacked against them.
And yet, it is the role of the school to empower our students at every level. Project Ink is a program designed to decrease the opportunity / experience gap and ensure that our students know that as young people, they have the option to run the world, not just work in it.
Nearly all 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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