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Ms. Paterson from Detroit MI is requesting sports & exercise equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Spinning Our Wheels To Success!

Help me give my students the ability to get physically fit in physical education class with these stationary bike trainers!

  • $967 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

I'm blessed to work at a special education center school for students in grades K-12. Our amazing program is located in Michigan. We serve students with a wide variety of psychiatric, cognitive, and behavioral needs. We serve students from the entire city of Detroit. Our school has thirty-seven beautiful young people with varying strengths and weaknesses. Their backgrounds are as diverse as their abilities.

We are all unique, but we are definitely a family here.

My Project

Our school is a very special place! Our students are high energy and unique, and they love physical education class and the opportunity to burn off some extra energy! In addition, due to the special needs of our students, they often come to the gym for "extra time" to utilize the space for a break or maybe even a time out. Our gymnasium and physical education classrooms are most certainly multi-purpose!

As with so many schools, our dreams are bigger than our dollars stretch.

This year, we are dreaming of a comprehensive indoor spinning program where we can offer students the option of a stationary bike, indoors. These bikes will then be able to be taken off the stationary base, and ridden around the neighborhood, if weather permits. For this project, we are asking for six stationary bike bases.

This program will not only help improve the physical fitness of our students, it will also have a significant impact on their behavior and mental health, as many studies have shown that exercise improves both. We appreciate your support for this multi-faceted project. Thank you!

Ms. Paterson
Grades 6-8

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sportneer Bike Trainer Stand Steel Bicycle Exercise Magnetic Stand with Noise Reduction Wheel for Road Bike (Black) • Amazon Business $129.99 6 $779.94

Materials cost

$779.94

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$821.64

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$145.00

Total project goal

$966.64

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $966.64

11 Donors

-$481.20

Donations toward project cost

-$412.62

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$68.58

match offer

-$481.20

Match offer toward project cost

-$409.02

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$72.18

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.24

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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