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Mrs. Monique Kan- Souza from Lihue, HI is requesting computers & tablets through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Online Excitement for 50 Students!

Help me give my students the best use of our instructional time together. A reliable MacBook Pro will allow me to teach on various platforms without being frozen and have to restart my computer.

  • $1,655 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are a fun, eclectic bunch, even though I have only known them for a few weeks. I can see and feel their personalities online, and they are engaging, friendly, and eager to learn, especially after the fourth quarter of last year brought their traditional learning to a halt.

As the only online learning teacher for my grade level, I am their lifeline to learning and their constant companion of their educational journey.

Since many parents did not feel it was safe to expose their children to coming to school every day during the Covid epidemic, I am here to bring the learning to life from my classroom and straight to their homes.

My Project

Having a faster speed, more reliable laptop will help keep my 50 online learning students engaged. With my school issued laptops, pages often take forever to load or freeze completely. I even have to leave my own meeting to log in again, because they size of our Google Meets meeting is too much for my laptops to handle. With each delay, I know students can quickly lose interest or get off task.

I know by using a MacBook Pro, I will be able to open those documents with the Kami app and start notation on our slides, to help the students see what the important points are.

I will be able to film and upload tutorial videos for lessons that they may need more practice on.

In a nutshell, by having a more reliable piece of technology, I will be providing the students with a more reliable teacher who will be unstoppable.

Mrs. Monique Kan- Souza
Grades 3-5
    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

    This project will reach 50 students.

    19 donors have given to this project.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Apple - MacBook Pro - 13'Display with Touch Bar - Intel Core i5 - 8GB Memory - 128GB SSD - Silver • Best Buy Education $1,299.99 1 $1,299.99

Materials cost

$1,299.99

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$57.20

3rd party payment processing fee

$19.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,406.69

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$248.24

Total project goal

$1,654.93

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,654.93

14 Donors

-$1,069.67

Donations toward project cost

-$954.22

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$115.45

Matching donations from our partners

-$532.34

Match offers toward project cost

-$452.49

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$79.85

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$52.94

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$0.00

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