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Mrs. Cassie Cowles from Novinger, MO is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Tools of Their Trade!

Help me give my students power tools to help them learn important skills necessary for their trade.

  • $593 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Welcome to our small rural school with an average class size of 15, but very little industry to economically support the school. Students here are agriculturally and academically driven to succeed both in the classroom and outside of it. Many students in my school attend trade and technical colleges that specialize in welding, electricity, heating and air conditioning, mechanics and many more high demand occupations. My students have taken complete ownership of the agricultural department, especially the shop laboratory, and have proven their desire to become competent in all areas that will lead to their future careers.

My Project

My students LOVE working with their hands, but that is exactly what they are having trouble doing in our current shop situation. Our facility is outdated in the equipment being used for student projects, either students are waiting turns to use tools or the tools are inoperable or unsafe and must be removed from the shop.

Shop classes offer students the opportunity to build important life skills.

They learn how to use tools and build things with their hands. They let students test their inclinations toward possible careers in engineering, carpentry, or architecture. If done in an academic setting, shop class can work alongside math, science, and history classes to bring context to real work and relevance to what the students study.

Mrs. Cassie Cowles
Grades 9-12
  • Adair County R1 School
  • Novinger, MO
  • Half of 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

    This project will reach 75 students.

    6 donors have given to this project.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
TK63237530T M18, Cordless Combination Kit, 18V DC Voltage, Number of Tools 4 • Grainger $466.76 1 $466.76

Materials cost

$466.76

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$503.76

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$88.90

Total project goal

$592.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$592.66

6 Donors

-$592.66

Donations toward project cost

-$503.76

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$88.90

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$0.00

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