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Mr. Holder from San Diego CA is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Sewing Sails: Powering Our Learning and Swampscott Dorys

My students need a heavy duty sewing machine to fabricate sails for the Swampscott Dorys (shallow draft sailboats) we have built.

  • $238 goal

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Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Our school is a publicly funded charter embracing a philosophy of learning through community-based projects, which are conducted as collaborations between different subject areas. Our students are admitted through a lottery to create a population representing the diverse county - including a range of socioeconomic classes, learning levels and military families - that we are part of.

Operating in our project-based environment, my students have access to a great deal of personalization, hands-on activities and community interactions as they support each other during the course of their learning.

With rich opportunities to take on different roles during their projects, my students are able to learn in engaging, authentic, real-world settings.

My Project

My students have worked hard to construct two 12-foot Swampscott Dory's - shallow draft sailboats - that are ready to hit the water and empower a great deal of future learning activities. For the second phase of this project, we will be designing and sewing sails that will empower our boats to function in the bays and ocean around San Diego.

My students will be collaborating with a local sail manufacturing company to design, fabricate, test and install sails for our boats.

This will create an amazing opportunity for the members of my class - made up of diverse learners, military families and students from varied socioeconomic backgrounds - to collaborate with professionals, learn design processes, engage in hands-on manufacturing, and get out on our boats to explore the waterways that are integral to our community.

This sewing machine will help us finish our boats to a professional standard while also creating an engaging and hands-on & real world learning opportunity for all my students.

Mr. Holder
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
SINGER Sewing 4432 Heavy Duty Extra High Speed Sewing Machine with 32 Built-in Stitches, Metal Frame and Stainless Steel Bedplate • Amazon Business $155.18 1 $155.18

Materials cost

$155.18

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$14.20

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.33

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$201.71

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$35.60

Total project goal

$237.31

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$237.31

2 Donors

-$118.65

Donations toward project cost

-$100.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.80

match offer

-$118.66

Match offer toward project cost

-$100.86

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.80

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$0.00

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