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Ms. Pedroza from Los Angeles, CA is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Stem Learning for Our Future Scientists

Help me give my students the opportunity to develop their STEM brain through experimenting with potential energy, kinetic energy, force and gravity by creating tangible projects using the Balloon Race Cars Kit. I purchased it myself last year

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Pedroza's classroom raised $197

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 Project

Dear Donors, my student population is deserving of an opportunity to learn what other community schools get to learn. They are low income students yet deserve the very best just like the rest! My scholars come to school to learn and to get ready for college because college is knowledge that will last forever.

These STEM projects will provide my scholars an opportunity to explore force, potential energy, kinetic energy, and gravity.

I purchased these products last year and realized that my students truly enjoyed hands on activities to create projects with their hands and brains. Won't you please help me to support our future leaders with an opportunity to expand their horizons in STEM?

My hope and goal is that I can inspire a future José Moreno Hernández (a Mexican-American engineer and former NASA astronaut) who arose from a family of field farm workers. Every child should have and deserve an opportunity to grow new dendrites and to make connections to future opportunities. Thank you once again for your philanthropy. Blessings!

Ms. Pedroza West Vernon Ave Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

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

25 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Carolina STEM Challenge: Structures Kit • Carolina Biological Supply Company $62.96 1 $62.96
Carolina STEM Challenge: Balloon Race Cars Kit • Carolina Biological Supply Company $60.98 1 $60.98

Materials cost

$123.94

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$11.34

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$167.14

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$29.50

Total project goal

$196.64

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$196.64

2 Donors

-$181.99

Donations toward project cost

-$167.14

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.85

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$14.65

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$0.00

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