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The students are excited to learn, are more engaged during independent and group work, and developing important skills in a fun and challenging way. Your generosity helps create a positive learning environment where students can grow academically and build confidence.\r\nWe truly appreciate your investment in our students and in education. For many of my students this is their first time trying a jigsaw puzzle and they love it!! It's a great way to start off their day! 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With these activities, students also receive the brain break they need to dive into more rigorous lessons. \r\nAll 300 students that are involved in STEM have been positively impacted by You. \r\n\r\nthank you again, \r\nMs. Vasilakos & my future engineers.","fullyFundedDate":1757423452246,"projectUrl":"project/setting-up-my-stem-classroom/9529550/","projectTitle":"Setting Up My STEM Classroom","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Vasilakos","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9894267_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x0,y80&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1736877371624","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9894267"},{"teacherId":7277936,"projectId":8627481,"letterContent":"Your donations allowed me to welcome my students with a notebook and pencils. Your donations took away the burden for about 80+ families of starting the new school year with many school supplies expenses. 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Being able to laminate different things for my students to use over and over has been key! Each class gets to use the assignment like it is brand new! My school does have a laminator, but it often breaks or takes weeks to get back! This makes it so i can laminate right in my classroom! \r\n\r\nMy plan is to laminate some of the students great artistic work to make it durable! In January when the students return from break i have them create vision boards for themselves! These projects come out so great i would love to laminate them an make them last! The students put so much effort into this assignment i would hate to see if get fled and ruined.","fullyFundedDate":1757423291130,"projectUrl":"project/the-ever-lasting-laminator/9463383/","projectTitle":"The Ever Lasting Laminator!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Ginas","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3833914_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1502847898603","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3833914"},{"teacherId":8270583,"projectId":9601867,"letterContent":"Thank you for your charitable donations in order to set up my classroom. The supplies I received made my math classroom inviting and welcoming. Also the supplies helped me achieve the vision I wanted in my classroom for my incoming 6th grade students. \r\n\r\nThe smiles on my students faces was priceless. 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Intermediate School 5 Walter H Crowley is
an urban public school
in Elmhurst, New York that is part of New York City Dept Of Ed.
It serves 1,205 students
in grades 6 - 8 with a student/teacher ratio of 9.7:1.
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Intermediate School 5 Walter H Crowley Demographics
89%
of students receive free or reduced price lunch
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96%
of students are Black, Latino, Native
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Intermediate School 5 Walter H Crowley
$233,682
raised using DonorsChoose
736
projects
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69
teachers
funded
1,673
donors
112
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Intermediate School 5 Walter H Crowley has received support from
663 individuals from New York and
1,010 individuals out-of-state.