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Mrs. Allen from El Cajon, CA is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Light Tables for the Art Room

Help me give my students light tables to help the grow as artists.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Allen's classroom raised $192

This project is fully funded

My Students

Diversity is the name of the game at my school. Iraqi refuges, immigrants from Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt, Mexican students from across the border, suburban American kids--all belong here. Some kids are driven to go to college, others are waiting to graduate and get a job. Diversity at its finest!

Our school prides itself in our excellence in academics and the arts, and we have consistently held high standards for our students in all fields.

Yet each year our class sizes get larger, our budgets shrink and our students show up with more needs than we are able to handle. As an art department, we believe that our projects are vital to student success in school and in life because they put into practice the skills they have learned in their classes.

My Project

In the high school art room I am teaching my students how to see as well as how to create. I want to help them succeed as artists, and find a new way of seeing their world, but sometimes they need a little help. Light tables will allow students who are not as confident to see the details in their subjects, and cultivate their own vision. Too many times students come into art class with the notion that they cannot create, and that they are not artists. I will use any tool I can find to help break that notion and unleash my students' creativity.

Mrs. Allen Valhalla High School Grades 9-12

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.

El Cajon, CA 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

180 students impacted 4donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
A4 Portable LED Light Box Trace, LITENERGY Light Pad USB Power LED Artcraft Tracing Light Table for Artists,Drawing, Sketching, Animation • Amazon Business $23.99 5 $119.95

Materials cost

$119.95

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$10.98

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.80

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$162.73

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$28.72

Total project goal

$191.45

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$191.45

1 Donor

-$191.45

Donations toward project cost

-$162.73

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.72

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$0.00

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