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Mr. Murphy from Whitestown, IN is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Medical Detectives: Antibiotic Resistant Testing

Help me give my students an amazing STEM experience with Medical Detectives! The classroom kit will allow all students to be involved and not just have a class demonstration!

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Murphy's classroom raised $1,119

This project is fully funded

My Project

The kit and extra Petri dishes will give a hands-on experience for the Medical Detectives to see how antibiotics affect the growth of e-coli. I will be able to have students work in small group and create smears of the ecoli and see the growth over the course of a day or two. If there is no growth around the antibiotic, then that antibiotic is useful in stopping ecoli. If the bacteria grows over and/or around the ecoli then that antibiotic... then there is resistance. Please consider to help grow our engineering and STEM program by donating.

Mr. Murphy Zionsville West Middle School Grades 6-8 Whitestown, IN View local requests 250 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Antibiotic Sensitivity Classroom Kit (with voucher) • Carolina Biological Supply Company $167.04 5 $835.20
60 Pcs Prepoured Agar Plates Kit Include Petri Dishes with Agar Cotton Swabs Droppers Science Kits Educational Stem Science Fair Project for Kids Aged 6 7 8 9 10 Boys Girls Gifts Learning Microbiology • Amazon Business $35.79 2 $71.58

Materials cost

$906.78

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.60

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$950.38

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$167.71

Total project goal

$1,118.09

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,118.09

2 Donors

-$1,118.09

Donations toward project cost

-$950.38

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$167.71

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$0.00

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