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Mrs. Zopfi from Aurora, CO is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Leveraging Paper Materials for Pre-K

Help me give my students meaningful materials created by their teachers to supplement their acquisition of new skills.

  • 5 donors
  • $12,039 still needed

expires Dec 17

  • 5 donors
  • $12,039 still needed
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My Project

With increasing budget cuts, the teachers at my school have been getting creative in their creation of materials to supplement curriculum for their students. One solution that we have discovered is the VariQuest Cutout Maker. One beautiful machine designed to ease a teacher's life.

How do you create materials, bulletin boards, and projects for students when your hands are tied by a shrinking budget?

You make your materials. The VariQuest would allow the teachers at my school to create a huge variety of materials quickly. Teachers would have access to shapes, letters, animals, numbers and more, to create interactive bulletin boards and materials that could be changed easily to reflect their units of focus. They would be able to create hands-on projects for students to complete, allowing students access to learning in more meaningful ways.

We have requested both the Cutout Maker 1800 and unlimited access to content so that we are not limited in the future by our access.

Mrs. Zopfi Meadowood Child Development Center Grades PreK-2

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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.

Aurora, CO View local requests

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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Cutout Maker 1800 and Premium Access CD • VariQuest $9,749.00 1 $9,749.00

Materials cost

$9,749.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $500.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$146.24

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$10,425.24

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$1,839.75

Total project goal

$12,264.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $12,264.99

4 Donors

-$160.00

Donations toward project cost

-$141.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.75

match offer

-$60.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$51.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$6.18

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 $12,038.81

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