Inspire My Students to Strive for College with Pennants
Help me give my students college and university pennants to inspire striving for higher education.
$1,096 goal
This project expired on September 7, 2025.
This project expired on September 7, 2025.
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 Project
I teach third through eighth grade students technology and makerspace. Most of our time together is focusing on coding, designing, and building. I have begun to introduce them to Amazon's Future Engineer Career Tours, which have been a huge asset to them thinking about potential jobs and careers they could strive to achieve. However, a crucial step in that direction is considering college, university, or trade school. Mnay of my students come from families in which their parents have never graduated high school or attended college. I have always made it a point to discuss with my students career goals, education goals, and college options. I grew up in a home where going to college was an expectation and the conversations about careers, college, and life plans were started in upper elementary and middle school; I want to bring that to my students.
Help to inspire my students to go to college by having pennants displayed all around the classroom for them to see daily and look into those schools as potential fits for them moving forward in their education.
Your contribution to this project will not only inspire the current students I have, but students for years to come. I thank you in advance for your generosity towards this project and hope that you will support the other phases of this project and share it with others that you feel would also want to support inspiring to strive for a college education.
More than three‑quarters of 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
999 students impacted
Boost your odds
Add a profile photo in addition to your classroom photo. If you add a photo, it'll show up right here on your project page.
You are more likely to receive funding if you put a face to your name.
DonorsChoose is the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.
As a teacher-founded nonprofit, we're trusted by thousands of teachers and supporters across the country. This classroom request for funding was created by Mr. Goldberg and reviewed by the DonorsChoose team.
{"pmaHash":"","showProjectRecommendations":true,"leadGenEnabled":true,"hideTeacherDetails":false,"schoolState":"NJ","teacherPossessivePronoun":"his","PMsManager":null,"schoolGradeType":{"id":3,"name":"Middle School"},"TeacherPMForms":{},"completingDonationAmount":1096,"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"proposalURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/project/inspire-my-students-to-strive-for-colleg/9336735/","mayHaveReplacements":false,"numStudents":999,"isEquityFocusV1":true,"teacherScreenName":"Mr. Goldberg","isEquityFocus":true,"proposalHash":"735826033","isApplePayMobileOnly":true,"progressBarPercentage":0.00,"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"photosPublished":false,"queryString":"","DonorPMForm":null,"shouldTrackEquityFocusV2":true,"schoolCity":"Freehold","teachersOnPage":[161008],"isTeacherViewingTheirOwnProject":false,"minimizedLeadGenEnabled":true,"proposalId":9336735,"proposalMessageFormModel":null,"numActiveProjects":1,"verifyShowPhotos":"","eligibleToBeCopied":false,"schoolId":81667,"schoolName":"Freehold Intermediate School","authorIds":{"161008":{"owner":"Mr. Goldberg","donationSalutations":{}}},"displayedPercentFunded":0.0,"proposalsOnPage":[9336735],"pmaId":"","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp161008_orig.png?crop=1324,1324,x37,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1677794959655","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"currentWorkflowStatusCode":7,"teacherChallengeId":43051,"isApplePayEnabled":true,"fundedByTarget":false,"activeProject":{"completingDonationAmount":367,"proposalURL":"project/coders-and-builders-need-a-quiet-corner/9916258/","proposalTitle":"Coders and Builders Need a Quiet Corner","proposalId":9916258},"donorIdsForImpactPhotoCheck":[],"teacherId":161008,"schoolCounty":"Monmouth","fullyFunded":false,"isStudentLed":false,"isExpired":true,"schoolStateObj":{"code":"NJ","name":"New Jersey"}}
