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Ms. Kerrigan from Mesa, AZ is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Us Capture Our Friday Night Lights!

Help me give my students tools to improve their photography skills and make an amazing, memorable yearbook!

  • $3,247 goal

This project expired on October 6, 2025.

This project expired on October 6, 2025.

My Project

Our yearbook class is very new and inexperienced, but they did an awesome job on their first book last year! Since we are small, we don't have a photography class yet, and we're 100% responsible for capturing the year's memories. Unfortunately, all of our after-dark games and low-light fine arts performance pictures are riding the struggle bus without low-light distance lens. Those lenses are very expensive, and it will be a long time before our little program can save up!

This telephoto lens is a cheaper version of what our cameras would really use, but we can get a converter if we can get the lens!

We have many aspiring young photographers that keep getting frustrated that they can't get their nighttime and low light pictures to turn out. I'd love for them to get to learn with something that can actually handle the conditions we find at football, soccer, baseball, softball games, and when our band, orchestra, or drama department are performing. Not only our yearbook class would benefit, but also all the young athletes and performers who we can share pictures with. Thank you for considering us!

Ms. Kerrigan American Leadership Mesa North 7-12 Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Mesa, AZ View local requests 540 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Canon EF telephoto zoom lens - 70 mm - 200 mm • CDW-G $2,512.25 1 $2,512.25

Materials cost

$2,512.25

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$179.63

3rd party payment processing fee

$37.68

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,759.56

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$486.98

Total project goal

$3,246.54

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