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Mrs. Keller from Brooklyn NY is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Hurricane Sandy Brings Us Together With iPads

My students need need 5 iPads with protective coverings.

  • $2,840 goal

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My Students

I am the librarian at a marvelous urban middle school in Brooklyn, NY, filled with over a thousand eager students looking to learn. Sadly, our lovely corner of Brooklyn has been damaged by the recent tragic and heartbreaking events of Hurricane Sandy.

I am hoping that this grant may help to ease some of the loss our students, and in turn the library, has felt due to the storm.

Not all the neighborhoods that were hit hard by Hurricane Sandy were told to evacuate. Therefore, many of our students and their families were caught unprepared for the devastation. Some lost everything and some lost a lot. Our school was spared, so it has provided a safe haven to these amazing young people as they and their families try to rebuild their lives.

My Project

To serve our students best, it is important that we immerse them in the most current 21st Century technology. Fortunately, we were able to fund one iPad device for our students, but classes come to the library 30 at a time and to make the iPad more effective, having 5 more, would enable us to group students together to use this marvelous device to learn important information literacy skills that are aligned with the common core state standards, such as note taking, website evaluation, as there are many apps that allow for it. In addition, we can use an iPad for e-books (students have been very enthusiastic about adding these to our collection.)

While this cannot replace the loss so many of our students experienced, an iPad can offer them excitement about learning, so that when they return to their temporary shelter or their partially destroyed home, they can think about coming to school the next day and learning with the latest tools.

Mrs. Keller
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Apple iPad 2 Wi-Fi - tablet - iOS 5 - 16 GB - 9.7' • Best Buy $399.99 5 $1,999.95
OtterBox Defender Series case for web tablet • CDW Inc. $61.22 5 $306.10

Materials cost

$2,306.05

Vendor shipping charges

 $42.61

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$34.59

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,413.25

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$425.87

Total project goal

$2,839.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $2,839.12

6 Donors

-$2,809.71

Donations toward project cost

-$2,392.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$417.71

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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