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Mr. Smutko from Lehigh Acres FL is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

HMMS Modular Minds Hydration Stations

My students need hydration stations to be properly hydrated to ensure academic growth and success!

  • $1,426 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrate 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

The students of our school come from all walks of life. We have students who are foster kids and students who only have one parent. A lot of the time our students get home from school with no one home and by the time they wake up their parents have already left for work. The students we work with care about school and strive to do the best that they can. They all have potential to be great.

Our students are from a Title I school in an urban area.

100% of the school population is receiving free or reduced lunch. The school's population has increased so much that our school now has 6 portables.

My Project

Due to increasing populations in Lehigh Acres, HMMS added six external modular classrooms to the building to accommodate the increasing size of the student population. The six teachers that were hand-picked to take on this endeavour truly want to see the students strive to achieve greatness.

With the portables being an external extension of the main school building, the students have to leave our classrooms in order to use the facilities and lose a considerable amount of learning time when doing so.

We feel, with this project, we can decrease the amount of time students are out of the classroom for non-education purposes.

We are asking for help with this project in order to provide a water dispenser in each of the 6 classrooms so that the students can stay hydrated while they are with us in the portables.

Mr. Smutko
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Avalon Bottom Loading Water Cooler Water Dispenser - 3 Temperature Settings - Hot, Cold & Room Water, Durable Stainless Steel Cabinet, Bottom Loading - UL/Energy Star Approved • Amazon Business $193.99 6 $1,163.94

Materials cost

$1,163.94

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$17.46

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,211.40

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$213.78

Total project goal

$1,425.18

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,425.18

14 Donors

-$826.56

Donations toward project cost

-$721.33

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$105.23

match offer

-$576.55

Match offer toward project cost

-$490.07

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$86.48

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$22.06

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$0.00

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