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Mrs. Caruso from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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STEM Books for STEM Students

Help me give my students a great collection of STEM books for our class.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Caruso's classroom raised $207

This project is fully funded

My Students

Imagine moving to a new country. You walk into a classroom and you may not have ever had any formal education before. You have never read or written and you have this smiling teacher talking to you in a language you don't understand. These are the students I teach every day.

I teach STEAM and Computer Coding in a Title I school where 85% of my students are English as a New Language Learners.

The children at my school spend more time at school than they do at home. When the school day is over, most of them go to an after school program. Any part of their day that could bring fun and new experiences to them would be welcomed with excitement and enthusiasm. And this is what brought me to DonorsChoose.org!

My Project

My students love STEM learning and would love to read about others in the STEM field. Books on this topic are hard to find in our school, and being a STEM teacher I would love to expose them to this genre of books. I know they would love reading about women computer scientists, Steve Jobs and other inventors.

We internalize what we read, and I want my students to internalize that they too can make a change.

Most of my students do not know about how technology has changed over the years and the people that inspired this change. They need to read about them and learn about them, so that they can be inspired to invent, create and make a change in the world. Please donate to our project so that my students can become STEM readers.

Mrs. Caruso PS 160 William Sampson Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Green City: How One Community Survived a Tornado and Rebuilt for a Sustainable Future • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Hello Ruby: Adventures in Coding • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
What Does It Mean To Be An Entrepreneur? • AKJ Education $13.10 1 $13.10
Whoosh! • AKJ Education $12.37 1 $12.37
Ben Franklin’s Big Splash • AKJ Education $12.37 1 $12.37
The Most Magnificent Thing • AKJ Education $12.37 1 $12.37
The Inventor's Secret What Thomas Edison Told Henry Ford • AKJ Education $12.37 1 $12.37
Inventions That Could Have Changed the World...But Didn't! • AKJ Education $10.91 1 $10.91
Women Who Launched the Computer Age • AKJ Education $2.91 3 $8.73
Steve Jobs • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02

Materials cost

$143.49

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.15

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$175.64

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$31.00

Total project goal

$206.64

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $206.64

1 Donor

-$103.32

Donations toward project cost

-$87.82

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.50

match offer

-$103.32

Match offer toward project cost

-$87.82

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.50

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 $0.00

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