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Mrs. Swanson from Winston Salem NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Mrs. S's Sparking Spheros!

Help me give my students Sphero SPRK robots for creative and engaging learning while integrating technology!

  • $766 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students come in every day with lots of energy! They love to move around throughout the day. Technology skills are important to our school, as we prepare our students for college and careers in the future.

I serve as a 2nd grade teacher in a Title I school in North Carolina, with a high population of ESL/bilingual students and low-income households.

Despite the challenges they face, my students come in with smiles on their faces every day. My passion is to help them not only to improve their performance at school, but also improve their lives!

My Project

Help my second graders get Sphero SPRKs! Having used some borrowed ones before, we know how awesome these bots can be! Robots like Spheros are great for integrating technology daily into all subjects, and introduce STEM and coding to my young scholars. They are so easy to use too.

I've never seen my second graders so engaged as they are when using robot technology in creative ways!

We can use these to show our thinking in math, explore force and motion, play vocabulary games, do review relay races, and much more! I would use these Sphero robots to engage my students in critical and creative thinking daily. Please help my class to get some robots of our own!

Mrs. Swanson
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sphero SPRK • Nasco $130.00 4 $520.00

Materials cost

$520.00

Vendor shipping charges

$52.00

Sales tax

$40.56

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.80

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$650.36

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$114.77

Total project goal

$765.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$765.13

7 Donors

-$441.00

Donations toward project cost

-$391.35

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$49.65

Matching donations from our partners

-$304.72

Match offers toward project cost

-$259.01

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$45.71

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$19.41

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$0.00

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Project Activity

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