Leverage 3D Printing for Creative, STEM, and Business Projects!
Help me give my students increased access to 3D printing tools for custom classroom manipulatives, incentives, creativity, mental health, engineering, and entrepreneurship.
$997 goal
This project expired on August 22, 2025.
This project expired on August 22, 2025.
My Project
We will use the 3D printer for the creation of classroom manipulatives like complex solids for our AP Calculus class, incentives like medals, and even functional computer mice, and rapid prototyping for some of our creative students' robotics and business ideas. We procured a 3D printer last year, and as a performance incentive and stress reliever, many students have been given shoulder massager pens and pencil attachments. Other students who score perfect scores on midterms and final exams receive fully functional and customized wireless computer mice. We have printed Halloween decorations for school morale, fractional poker chips as pre-algebra comprehension manipulatives, and chess sets.
As a result, many of our students developed a genuine curiosity for 3D printing for STEM and business projects, but do not have access to enough 3D printers.
We are therefore asking for another 3D printer and assorted filament, so that we can continue to improve the morale, comprehension, and creative outlook of many of our disenfranchised and marginalized scholars. The presence of our first 3D printer in the classroom was a major point of curiosity and improved attendance in the AP math classroom. For many of our students, and for their first time, they had a reason to come to school other than for academics or at the behest of their parents.
Our goals for this 3D printer are to A. expand on our print-as-incentive policy, create larger and more complex shapes for the AP Calculus class, B. print student science and history projects like Bohr-Models and avocado boats or model landmarks and busts of historical figures, and C. increase access to rapid prototyping for the students and young entrepreneurs interested in STEM or just want to prototype their creations and test their respective markets, just to name a few.
More than half 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
100 students impacted
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$44.43
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$25.49
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$25.49
FLASHFORGE Silk PLA Gradient Silver to Blue Filament, Silk Multicolored Color Change 3D Printing Filament, Silver Blue Shiny Fast Color-Changing Each 8M Gradually, Silky Texture Ultra-High Glossiness
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$25.49
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$25.49
FLASHFORGE Silk Bi-Color PLA Filament 1.75mm, Coextrusion Blue Rose Dual Color Multicolor 3D Printer Filament, Enchanting Silk Finish with 360° Multicolor Shifting Color Effect
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Bambu Lab - 1.75mm PETG HF Filament - White
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$22.99
1
$22.99
ACTIVEME PETG+ Filament 1.75mm, 3D Printing Filament for 3D Printers, PETG+ 3D Printer Filament, Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.02 mm (1kg Grey)
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$14.99
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$14.99
Materials cost
$805.03
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$12.08
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$847.11
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$149.49
Total project goal
$996.60
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