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Mr. Bell from Bridgeport, CT is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Looking for a Little Luck

My students need two HDSC memory cards and blank DVDS for creating a yearbook and for their lab reports/assignments and inquiry projects.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Bell's classroom raised $213

This project is fully funded

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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

With all the new advantages to technology, I want my students to have access to devices for storing and saving their work and their memories. Being a teacher in the highest poverty district in America, it is difficult to fund items for extra storage of my students work.

My students live in a high poverty district where there is little to no funding available to teachers to create and save their work on computers.

The students I teach are creative, motivated and willing to work when they have use to technology that they may not have at home.

My Project

My students are willing to create a yearbook using my camera, however I need memory and storage for the pictures. I've set up accounts on the few computers I have access to, allowing each individual student to set up their own storage area of all the work they do with lab inquiry projects and activities. Our problem is that the computers we have do not have the memory to hold all of their work, so I would like to provide blank DVDs to each student to save their reports for future reference and knowledge.

As many of you probably have is a yearbook, memories from your childhood that make you stronger and have made that little difference to wake you up in the morning and start you off happy.

I care about my students and want them to succeed and to look back and remember the good times. I believe creating a yearbook, pictures, etc. will give my students that extra push. Plus, many of my students are willing to stay after school for extra tutoring and to work on the yearbook. Keep them learning!

Mr. Bell Jettie S Tisdale 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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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

120 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Kingston - flash memory card - 32 GB - SDHC UHS-I • Best Buy for Business $63.12 1 $63.12
Sony - 32GB High-Speed Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) Class 10 UHS-1 Memory Card • Best Buy for Business $42.20 1 $42.20
Verbatim - DVD+R x 100 - 4.7 GB • Best Buy for Business $37.08 1 $37.08

Materials cost

$142.40

Vendor shipping charges

$5.70

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.14

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$180.24

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$31.81

Total project goal

$212.05

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$212.05

2 Donors

-$94.26

Donations toward project cost

-$81.62

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.64

Matching donations from our partners

-$116.02

Match offers toward project cost

-$98.62

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.40

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

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$0.00

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