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Mrs. Colton from Yuma AZ is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Innovative Thinkers Need a MAKER SPACE

Help me give my students a chance to develop skills of being a Maker, designer & engineer. The Maker Space Mobile Project cart will provide materials to my students so that they can create and design with ease.

  • $1,070 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

Today's students are tomorrow's leaders. I believe my students can make a difference. I need materials to help teach 21st-century science and technology skills. Despite high-crime neighborhoods and economic challenges my students face, they are determined to follow their dreams. I need supplies to setup a Maker Space in my classroom.

My science lab provides hands-on learning that turns ideas into adventures through the world of science.

We lack materials needed. My students will be able to explore and learn by creating their own designs in the Maker Space Station which incorporating STEM skills. Engaging in students in challenge base learning, experimenting, writing and creating new innovative solutions.

To help my students have brighter future I need materials to assist them in their projects and to teach them science and mathematic concepts having Maker Space center will help engage my students.

My Project

By having a Makerspace in my classroom students will have designated area to create, build, design and make their innovative ideas come to life. Having a Maker Space Mobile cart full of supplies will provide an opportunities for my students to use their imagination and develop skills and talents.

Maker Spaces help students master STEM skills and make them productive innovative thinkers.

Children should engage in tinkering and making because they are powerful ways for kids to learn. Making allows students to learn through the engineering process of new technological materials, expanded opportunities, learning through firsthand experience, and the basic human impulse to create. It offers the potential to make classrooms more child-centered: relevant and more sensitive to each child's remarkable capacity for intensity.

Mrs. Colton
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
LC935X - Maker Space Mobile Project Cart - Fully Loaded • Lakeshore Learning Materials $699.00 1 $699.00
LC644 - Write & Wipe Blueprint Mats - Set of 8 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 4 $79.96
TT758 - Building Brick STEM Challenge Kit - Pre K-Gr. 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99

Materials cost

$808.95

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$57.84

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.13

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$908.92

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$160.40

Total project goal

$1,069.32

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,069.32

2 Donors

-$1,069.32

Donations toward project cost

-$908.92

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$160.40

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$0.00

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