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Mr. Snyder from Los Angeles, CA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Recording the Stories of Our Town

My students need four Flip Video cameras to document the history of the people of our neighborhood for their peers, their elders and for our visitors.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Snyder's classroom raised $1,092

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

Do you know a lot about your community? My students are going to explore the history of our school's neighborhood and the people in it--and document it on video!

My students are thoughtful, inquisitive, passionate and respectful.

They're almost exclusively Latino, many of them first-generation Americans aiming to be the first in their families to go to college. They like to learn, yet most of them know so little about the world around them, and in turn, feel less than empowered to be major players in shaping that world. Our school is a public charter high school in California with about 550 students, a place that is providing neighborhood kids a great education that they deserve.

My Project

We're often exposed to the history of our most well-recognized communities. Here in Los Angeles, we often come across old pictures of Beverly Hills and Hollywood, stories with nostalgia that fills up books. The places where recent immigrants often end up, though, are much less documented. The Florence-Firestone neighborhood in South Los Angeles has been a shifting landscape of immigrants and other Americans for the last century, and our students will be interviewing those people who live here now to hear the stories of how they arrived. They'll also be researching the community's past to find and interview those who lived here before. These Flip cameras will be a tool that we can use for years to come to build and expand a library of community history--something that is often neglected in a community where people are working so hard just to make it. This neighborhood is a part of the fabric of Los Angeles, and it would be amazing for our students to help document its history.

This project has so many purposes, it is astounding.

The presentation of these interviews will happen in concert with a student/staff performance of the play "Our Town" in Spanish and English. Students will learn about their community, learn the skills of videotaping editing, and will be amateur historians in the process. We believe the "Our Town" project has the possibility to transformative in the lives of our students and in their community, and these cameras would help make that a reality.

Mr. Snyder Animo Pat Brown Charter High School Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Los Angeles, CA View local requests

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

20 students impacted 52donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
FLIP VIDEO ULTRAHD CAMCORDER -- Flip Video Camcorders; UltraHD, White • Quill $199.99 4 $799.96

Materials cost

$799.96

Vendor shipping charges

 $8.00

Sales tax

 $73.20

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$928.16

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$163.79

Total project goal

$1,091.95

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,091.95

40 Donors

-$1,087.54

Donations toward project cost

-$928.16

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$159.38

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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