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Mrs. Laura Garza from Brownsville, TX is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Learning Through Creativity!

Help me give my students a personalized lesson with this machine I will create manipulatives so we can have fun learning. Focusing on the learning and not the cutting.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Laura Garza's classroom raised $513

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

Our school is located in the South tip of Texas where students thrive for success. My class is filled with wonderful, heart-warming, bright four-year-olds that are always so eager to learn. They are both from the U.S. and Mexico. Most of them are Spanish speakers and come from low socioeconomic households that are considered at risk. Despite their challenges, they always walk in excited and looking forward to their new class adventure. I'm very fortunate to be their Teacher!

My Project

Using this machine will help us cut time in cutting out manipulatives for the students.

This will accelerate the process so we can focus on learning with this fun material.

The scan and cut will help me create a variety of manipulatives such as counting tools letters and shapes to use in the classroom, helping me bring fun learning activties for the students in my pre-kinder class. This will also give us an opportunity to help the students create crafts that go attached to our lessons through the school year.

Mrs. Laura Garza Pena Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Brownsville, TX View local requests

Nearly all 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

24 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Brother ScanNCut SDX125EGY Electronic DIY Cutting Machine with Scanner, Make Custom Stickers, Vinyl Wall Art, Greeting Cards and More with 682 Included Patterns, Grey • Amazon Business $399.99 1 $399.99

Materials cost

$399.99

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$435.99

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$76.94

Total project goal

$512.93

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$512.93

8 Donors

-$275.22

Donations toward project cost

-$233.94

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.28

Matching donations from our partners

-$237.71

Match offers toward project cost

-$202.05

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$35.66

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$0.00

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