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Thank you for helping our students step into college with confidence and the resources they need to thrive.","fullyFundedDate":1746331666175,"projectUrl":"project/tools-for-our-future-leaders/9218192/","projectTitle":"Tools For Our Future Leaders!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. N Ortega","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9508882"},{"teacherId":9508882,"projectId":9099459,"letterContent":"The donated iPad has made a significant difference in the way I support students across our campus. Because I meet with students one-on-one and/or in small groups in various locations, having a lightweight, portable device has allowed me to bring lessons, activities, and resources directly to them—without the hassle of carrying a laptop and stacks of paperwork.\r\n\r\nWith the iPad, students can easily engage in digital lessons, complete surveys, and participate in interactive activities during our meetings. This has made our time together more efficient, more meaningful, and more personalized.\r\n\r\nThanks to this donation, I'm able to stay mobile, organized, and responsive to students' needs, ultimately helping create smoother, more effective support for every student I work with.","fullyFundedDate":1743128336023,"projectUrl":"project/an-ipad-to-engage-students/9099459/","projectTitle":"An iPad to Engage Students","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. N Ortega","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9508882"},{"teacherId":2687605,"projectId":9481443,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting our Donors Choose Project: \"Spin It, Press It, & Profit!\"\r\n\r\nMy students were thrilled to learn they'll be designing and selling their own buttons! That we have already started dreaming up branding ideas! \r\n\r\nThanks to you, they'll experience the full process of creating, budgeting, pricing, and marketing, and will face real-world business challenges as determined by our Wheel of Mis(Fortune)!\r\n\r\nYour generosity is turning economic concepts into hands-on entrepreneurship and giving students skills they'll carry far beyond the classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1755522438988,"projectUrl":"project/spin-it-press-it-profit/9481443/","projectTitle":"Spin It, Press It, & Profit!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Quintero","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2687605_orig.jpg?crop=528,528,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1649346899230","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-quintero23"},{"teacherId":2687605,"projectId":9206110,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting our Empowering Students Through Democracy: Building a Classroom of Civic Engagement Donors Choose project!\r\n\r\nWith your generosity, students are not only learning about democracy—they're practicing it every day. Whether contributing ideas or taking on classroom roles, they keep our community running. The folders and file boxes give them the tools to stay organized, set goals, and hold themselves accountable.\r\n\r\nThanks to you, principles of democracy (e.g., accountability, transparency, civic engagement, etc.) are more than lessons—they're now daily habits that will hopefully shape the next generation of active, community-minded leaders.\r\n\r\nThank you!","fullyFundedDate":1749647290378,"projectUrl":"project/empowering-students-through-democracy-b/9206110/","projectTitle":"Empowering Students Through Democracy: Building a Classroom of Civic Engagement","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Quintero","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2687605_orig.jpg?crop=528,528,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1649346899230","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-quintero23"},{"teacherId":9508882,"projectId":9076558,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation of hygiene items which included deodorants, toothbrushes, toothpaste, combs, brushes, mirrors, and more. These items allowed us to create hygiene kits that supported our students during dressing for success and mock interview lessons. Each student who participated in a mock interview received a kit. In addition, kits were also available to students in need. These kits helped students feel confident and prepared and small enough to keep in their bags at all times. \r\nWe truly appreciate your support in helping our students grow personally and professionally. Sometimes it takes a village to help a person and I am glad to have a village to help support our students grown.","fullyFundedDate":1741374357372,"projectUrl":"project/essential-pre-interview-hygiene-and-groo/9076558/","projectTitle":"Essential Pre-interview Hygiene and Grooming Kits","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. N Ortega","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9508882"},{"teacherId":9508882,"projectId":9115432,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation of snacks for our students. Your support made it possible to keep our kids energized during field trips and focused during class. Our seniors were working hard completing college applications, financial aid applications, searching for jobs, and touring post-secondary training centers. Thinking about life after high school can be very stressful and time consuming and your donation provided a small incentive for their hard work and effort. \r\n A bag of cheese itz or fruit snacks, a granola bar or a rice Krispy treat seem small and insignificant but our students get so excited and are so grateful when they receive that small gesture. You would think they won a grand prize but it's the small things that make their day. \r\nWe are back again with another school year and ready to support and help our students once again.","fullyFundedDate":1739798888821,"projectUrl":"project/food-for-the-brain/9115432/","projectTitle":"Food for the Brain","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. N Ortega","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9508882"},{"teacherId":162938,"projectId":9188069,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for the donation of the photogate, jumbo wave spring, and gyroscope! My students used these items in hands-on labs of the the waves and energy units. In the energy unit, the students designed and built cardstock rollercoasters. They used the photogate to measure the speed of a marble as it exited the rollercoaster at the bottom. With a measured value for the marble's final speed, students calculated the marble's final translational kinetic energy and compared it to the initial potential energy. Students discovered that the energy difference between these two energies was due to rotational kinetic energy and friction. This was a wonderful engineering experience that the students enjoyed!\r\n\r\nThe students also enjoyed using the jumbo spring to model wave generation with different frequencies. This introductory hands-on experience was followed up with a music lab in which students calculated the lengths of rubber band needed to make notes of different pitch, and then they played Mary Had A Little Lamb using a guitar fret system designed around their calculations. Finally, the gyroscope was a wonderful demonstration tool that enthralled the class. Thank you again, we are so grateful!","fullyFundedDate":1743017365733,"projectUrl":"project/exploring-cyclical-motion-with-a-gyrosco/9188069/","projectTitle":"Exploring Cyclical Motion With a Gyroscope, Spring, and Beespi Photogate","teacherDisplayName":"Dr. Pilloff","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp162938_orig.jpg?crop=602,602,x68,y37&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1627269329938","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/dpilloff"},{"teacherId":9935763,"projectId":9143044,"letterContent":"Your donations will be used in a meaningful way to celebrate and support our graduating seniors as they take their next steps beyond high school. With your help, we were able to provide them with essential technology—laptops, iPads, headphones, and speakers—that will serve as both a reward for their hard work and a tool to help them succeed in their post-secondary plans, whether they are heading into college, trade school, the workforce, or the military. \r\n\r\nWhile many people are familiar with using technology at home, for some of our students, this is their very first time having personal access to devices that are essential for today's learning and professional environments. One student who was especially impacted did not have a personal laptop. They were completely overwhelmed with gratitude when received one of the raffled laptops. \r\n\r\nYour donation didn't just provide a gift—it sent a message of encouragement and belief in our students' potential. Thank you for helping us honor their achievements and empower their future.","fullyFundedDate":1746006393056,"projectUrl":"project/to-infinity-and-beyond-poly-senior-decis/9143044/","projectTitle":"To Infinity and Beyond Poly Senior Decision Day","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Palafox","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9935763_orig.jpg?crop=1984,1984,x0,y496&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1741710901378","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9935763"},{"teacherId":162938,"projectId":8932394,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous support of the Beespi photogates project! My students used these photogates for the first time today and they took to them immediately! They are easy to set up and easy to use. The class was unanimous that using these photogates was much easier than the previous method of determining velocity, which involved cell phone video recording the motion of an object with a meter stick in the background and a second timer running in the background. That is a lot of work!\r\n\r\nWe have just started the energy unit and the students used these sensors to measure the speed of a marble after rolling down a ramp. They then compared the potential energy of the marble at the top of the ramp to the kinetic energy of the marble at the bottom. The ease of sensor use facilitated multiple investigations at different heights and allowed students more time to work through the calculations to realize that some energy was being lost to rotation and friction. We will continue to use these sensors, and our next project will involve the students designing and creating a rollercoaster for the marble.\r\n\r\nThank you! Thank you! Thank you for supporting my students' science education!","fullyFundedDate":1731739292821,"projectUrl":"project/students-measure-speeds-of-marbles-and-c/8932394/","projectTitle":"Students Measure Speeds of Marbles and Cars With BeeSpi Photogates","teacherDisplayName":"Dr. Pilloff","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp162938_orig.jpg?crop=602,602,x68,y37&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1627269329938","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/dpilloff"},{"teacherId":162938,"projectId":8980460,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your support of the Hands-On Orbit Models of the Earth-Moon-Sun System! My students used the models for labs in a mini-unit on solar and lunar time-keeping, which is part of the larger unit on gravity and circular motion. \r\n\r\nIn one lab, students related the revolution of the moon around the Earth and the observed phase of the moon based on the amount of the illuminated half of the moon observable from Earth. Students also used this model to investigate how the revolution of the tilted Earth around the sun leads to seasons. The sun lit up to illuminate the moon, and there are very clear labels around the Earth and moon to indicate the moon phase and season (as observed in the Northern hemisphere). \r\n\r\nYour generous support enabled me to provide hands-on experiences to my students. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1739543792628,"projectUrl":"project/hands-on-orbit-models-of-the-earth-moon-/8980460/","projectTitle":"Hands-On Orbit Models of the Earth-Moon-Sun System.","teacherDisplayName":"Dr. Pilloff","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp162938_orig.jpg?crop=602,602,x68,y37&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1627269329938","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/dpilloff"},{"teacherId":9508882,"projectId":8790288,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generosity and donation to our class project. Your contribution helped fund our project and get snacks for our students. \r\nWe provide transition support to our students and we either pull students from their non core classes, during lunch or after school. During this time students take assessments to help with post secondary choices, discuss their plans, work on college applications and just started with financial aid. In addition, we also help students with resumes, how to apply for jobs and mock interviews! \r\nMany of these tasks are stressful so having snacks on hand helps students focus better.","fullyFundedDate":1727541835733,"projectUrl":"project/the-snack-project/8790288/","projectTitle":"The Snack Project","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. N Ortega","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9508882"},{"teacherId":9508882,"projectId":8741954,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donation and for supporting our cause. Unfortunately due to budget cuts and staffing shortages our schools do not always get the attention they need and do not get a thorough clean on a daily or regular basis. \r\nOur classroom is a high traffic room because we support all SPED students and have students in and out of our room constantly. Due to this, we need to make sure that our rooms are clean and sanitized to avoids the spread of germs and also maintain a clean environment for all. The cleaning supplies have been a huge help and have made a difference.","fullyFundedDate":1727562527922,"projectUrl":"project/a-clean-and-safe-place-for-students/8741954/","projectTitle":"A Clean and Safe Place for Students","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. N Ortega","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9508882"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_28004","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":3954,"numTeachers":161,"percentFrplEligible":62,"percentAsian":17,"percentBlack":14,"percentWhite":6,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":54,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"9 - 12","studentTeacherRatio":"24.6:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":87.3,"schoolId":28004,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Polytechnic High School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Polytechnic High School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/california/long-beach-unified-school-district/long-beach-polytechnic-high-school/28004"}