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Ms. Helms from Chicago, IL is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Lego STEAM Essentials

Help me give my students the supplies they need to be creative and explore their STEM ideas with Legos!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Helms's classroom raised $507

This project is fully funded

My Project

Our new STEAM lab is building up it Lego essentials. These items will help students grow their ideas and creations. They will be paired with our Lego Prime coding sets and let students build a create cities, inventions, and more.

These kits will allow our students Pre-K to 8th see their ideas come to fruition.

I plan to use the STEM park with our lower grades to learn about simple machines and more. The other items will allow the older kids to build and create solutions to engineering challenges and questions!

Ms. Helms Kilmer Elementary School Grades 6-8

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

740 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
STEAM Park • LEGO Education $199.95 1 $199.95
People • LEGO Education $99.95 1 $99.95
Creative LEGO® Brick Set • LEGO Education $79.95 1 $79.95

Materials cost

$379.85

Vendor shipping charges

 $15.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$430.55

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$75.98

Total project goal

$506.53

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $506.53

2 Donors

-$216.78

Donations toward project cost

-$215.28

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.50

match offer

-$253.26

Match offer toward project cost

-$215.27

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.99

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$36.49

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 $0.00

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