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The fact students can just show work on a whiteboard without worry about dry erase marker being dry up in the middle of their work says enough.\r\n\r\nThank you again for the donations to ensure thinking is ongoing in my classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1758898879358,"projectUrl":"project/back-to-school-essential-supplies-for-a/9665836/","projectTitle":"Back to School Essential Supplies for A Thinking Classroom","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Foong","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7083682"},{"teacherId":3643602,"projectId":9686054,"letterContent":"Thank you so very much for helping to fund this project to get clothes for our classroom \"pet\" – Gary the Silly Goose. These outfits have brought immense joy to my students, and many, many laughs for us all. Our class goose has become famous across the school for its numerous festive outfits, and students often take turns carrying the goose to classes with them. Students have even been inspired by this project and started making outfits at home for our goose to wear!\r\n\r\nYour contribution towards this project has helped keep imagination alive for my high schoolers and I couldn't be more grateful. Thank you for believing in this project and thank you for helping to make our classroom fun!","fullyFundedDate":1757532535503,"projectUrl":"project/love-your-inner-silly-goose/9686054/","projectTitle":"Love Your Inner Silly Goose","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Blessing","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3643602_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1722353731894","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-blessing"},{"teacherId":4121709,"projectId":8680266,"letterContent":"Thank you! Your donation allowed our FRC and FTC teams to successfully launch their mental health initiative, providing vital support during high-stress times. We successfully hosted workshops and events centered on making de-stressing fidget toys, including clicky and squishy models.\r\n\r\nThe initial team sign-up event at the club fair was a huge success, engaging over 150 students who custom-designed their own stress-relieving tools. Our robotics students led 3D modeling workshops to teach their peers to design and 3D print clicky toys, merging STEM skills with mental wellness. This project not only equipped the student body with personalized anxiety-relief tools but also provided our team members with leadership opportunities and technical teaching experience. You helped us build community and resilience, one clicky toy at a time!","fullyFundedDate":1724326552960,"projectUrl":"project/click-squish-twist-frc-robotics-men/8680266/","projectTitle":"Click, Squish, &Twist - Frc Robotics Mental Health Workshops","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Malin","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4121709_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1480596470226","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mr-malin"},{"teacherId":4121709,"projectId":9300314,"letterContent":"Thank you so much! Your generous support has fundamentally upgraded our lab space with the essential VEVOR 60-inch Workbenches. These are more than tables; they are the durable, stable foundation our FRC and FTC programs needed to grow.\r\n\r\nThe new benches provide a significantly wider and more stable workspace, directly eliminating the wobbly, inadequate surfaces that hindered our precision work. Students can now confidently use tools, firmly clamp vises, and assemble large robot chassis without compromising safety or accuracy.\r\n\r\nCrucially, the modular, movable design solves our room layout challenges. We can now instantly reconfigure the space—creating a large, singular assembly line for our FRC robot or setting up multiple dedicated prototyping stations—allowing us to work more efficiently during the intense build season. By providing this robust and flexible environment, you've ensured our students can focus entirely on complex engineering challenges, gaining hands-on experience in a space that truly reflects industry standards.","fullyFundedDate":1746793220661,"projectUrl":"project/robotics-work-tables-upgrade/9300314/","projectTitle":"Robotics Work Tables Upgrade","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Malin","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4121709_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1480596470226","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mr-malin"},{"teacherId":4121709,"projectId":8934833,"letterContent":"We are thrilled to report on the significant impact of your generous support, which has successfully addressed critical performance roadblocks for our FRC 7272 team and engineering students, particularly when using Adobe Creative Suite and Blender Studio. While we are still seeking the requested GPU to accelerate rendering, the CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5 RAM (64GB) and the SAMSUNG 990 PRO SSD (4TB) are already transformative upgrades. The 64GB of high-speed DDR5 RAM acts as a vast engine room, directly meeting the 32GB+ recommendation for professionals in Blender and Adobe Premiere/After Effects. This massive memory pool eliminates frustrating crashes and slowdowns when students open large Blender scenes with complex geometry, run demanding physics simulations, or manipulate multiple high-resolution assets in Photoshop or Illustrator. For Onshape (which is cloud-based), the enhanced RAM allows for extensive multitasking, letting students keep multiple resource-intensive tabs and supporting design documents open simultaneously without system stutter.\r\n\r\nThe 4TB PCIe 4.0 SSD provides the essential speedway for our data, accelerating workflow and maximizing productive time in all three key applications. This drive provides blazing-fast load times for professional software, ending the minutes-long waits our students previously experienced. This is particularly crucial for Blender and Adobe projects, where students regularly save and load multi-gigabyte files. The quick read/write speeds allow for near-instantaneous saving and iteration on large files—a cornerstone of professional practice in animation and media. By eliminating these speed bottlenecks and providing the necessary memory capacity, your donation ensures our students are no longer held back by hardware limitations, allowing them to gain hands-on experience with the pace and efficiency required by industry-standard tools.","fullyFundedDate":1733281853119,"projectUrl":"project/gpu-rendering-dreams-for-animation-edi/8934833/","projectTitle":"GPU Rendering Dreams: for Animation, Editing, and Advance Studio Work","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Malin","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4121709_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1480596470226","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mr-malin"},{"teacherId":1036614,"projectId":8899055,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for the support of our classroom! The flex seating has gotten us off to a great school year! Students are finding comfort in the class and are more productive than ever. They appreciate the option to sit where they want during work time. It has helped students engage more authentically with one another. \r\n\r\nProviding supplies like this to our classes is so crucial. School funding always takes a hit from local government, and it is often the responsibility of teachers to pay out of pocket to support the needs of our students. As you know, this is not a sustainable practice, but we want to give the best we can. \r\n\r\nWhen we have regular supporters like you, we continue to grow a classroom that students feel welcomed into.","fullyFundedDate":1730925475421,"projectUrl":"project/flex-seating-for-better-learning/8899055/","projectTitle":"Flex Seating for Better Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mazauskas","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1036614_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1690127429931","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mmazauskas"},{"teacherId":4121709,"projectId":9214539,"letterContent":"We are incredibly grateful for your generous donation of materials that will significantly benefit both our 9th-grade Urban Environment (Intro to Civil Engineering) classes and our after-school FIRST Robotics team 7272, the Envirobots!\r\n\r\nYour contribution provides essential books, drafting supplies, and 3D modeling consumables that will deepen our students' understanding of city infrastructure and design. These materials are crucial for helping them learn how cities grow and develop, and for drafting their own architectural designs.\r\n\r\nFurthermore, your donation addresses critical needs for our robotics team's machine shop, including replacement tools and equipment. These items will help us maintain our shop and continue to build our robots effectively.\r\n\r\nYour support will fulfill multiple programs within our school, assisting a great many students in their learning, enhancing their STEM skills, and improving their future opportunities. Thank you for making such a significant impact!","fullyFundedDate":1746772174855,"projectUrl":"project/urban-engineering-school-supplies/9214539/","projectTitle":"Urban Engineering School Supplies","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Malin","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4121709_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1480596470226","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mr-malin"},{"teacherId":4121709,"projectId":8813610,"letterContent":"On behalf of the students and mentors of FRC Team 7272 and FTC Team 14734, we want to extend our deepest and most sincere gratitude for your incredible generosity. Your donation has allowed us to build a new, high-performance workstation, and it has already had a transformative impact on our robotics lab and our students' ability to learn and innovate.\r\n\r\nBefore your support, our teams were facing a significant technological roadblock. As our students' engineering skills grew, so did the complexity of their ideas. They were designing ambitious, detailed robots in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software, but our older computers struggled to keep up. The constant lag, slow processing, and software crashes were becoming a major source of frustration, hindering the design process and limiting their creative potential. Similarly, our efforts to produce our annual FRC/UL safety animation were hampered by impossibly long rendering times, turning a creative project into a test of patience.\r\n\r\nThanks to you, that has all changed. The new workstation, powered by the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X processor and MSI PRO B650-P motherboard, has completely revitalized our workflow. For our students, the difference is night and day.\r\n\r\nIn our design sessions, students can now manipulate large, complex 3D models of our robots smoothly and without delay. The processor's immense speed means they can test assemblies, run simulations, and iterate on their designs in real-time—a process that mirrors a professional engineering environment. This immediate feedback is invaluable, allowing them to learn faster and problem-solve more effectively.","fullyFundedDate":1730080695637,"projectUrl":"project/ryzen-to-a-new-robotics-computer/8813610/","projectTitle":"Ryzen to a New Robotics Computer","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Malin","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4121709_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1480596470226","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mr-malin"},{"teacherId":4121709,"projectId":9374601,"letterContent":"On behalf of the students and faculty of our STEM and advanced manufacturing programs, I want to extend our sincerest gratitude for your generous donation. Your contribution has enabled us to acquire a state-of-the-art Bambu Lab A1 Mini 3D printer and a generous supply of Creality PLA filament.\r\n The students are amazed by how quickly this printer operates. In a 45-minute class period, they can now print multiple versions of smaller parts. This rapid iteration means they can learn from a mistake and try a new solution almost immediately, which keeps their creative momentum going. Student projects that may have taken an hour or more, can be done faster, and more reliably. \r\nAs a Title I school, your support is essential in bridging the resource gap and ensuring our students can compete at the highest levels. Your donation is more than just a piece of equipment; it's an investment in students like the one I mentioned. It's a tool that is building skills, sparking passions, and preparing them for academic and professional success.","fullyFundedDate":1748302708743,"projectUrl":"project/bambu-mini-big-results-for-engineering-c/9374601/","projectTitle":"Bambu Mini Big Results for Engineering Class","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Malin","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4121709_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1480596470226","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mr-malin"},{"teacherId":4121709,"projectId":8909761,"letterContent":"Upgrading the computer power station with a new ASUS Dual NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 video card gave our students a powerful tool for tasks like animation, 3D modeling, video editing, and other media projects. This improvement made it easier to create and modify designs, helping students with both the creative and technical sides of robotics.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, the request for 30 computer mice and adapters for Chromebooks made sure that all our students could easily use the lab's equipment. The mice provided each student with a comfortable tool for working on their Chromebooks, and the adapters allowed them to connect to a variety of computers, including PCs and Macs. These supplies not only helped the robotics teams work more efficiently but also created a better learning environment for everyone.","fullyFundedDate":1730421245978,"projectUrl":"project/computer-lab-station-equipment-for-firs/8909761/","projectTitle":"Computer Lab Station Equipment for FIRST Robotics","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Malin","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4121709_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1480596470226","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mr-malin"},{"teacherId":7083682,"projectId":8770100,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generous donation of the funds for ordering the necessary supplies needed to help make running my classroom smoothly. \r\n\r\nThe supplies has helped reduced paper waste and environmental friendly as now I am able to print and reuse the activities during classwork. The generous funding has also supported the purchase of dry erase markers as those run out very quickly when students are doing work using a Vertical Panel. I cannot even recall how many dry erase markers the students and I have run through.\r\n\r\nThe generous funding has helped eased the unnecessary stress and has enabled me to use my prep time effectively such as planning lessons and/or activities.\r\n\r\nAgain, thank you for the generous donations!","fullyFundedDate":1733171987165,"projectUrl":"project/building-thinking-classroom-supplies/8770100/","projectTitle":"Building Thinking Classroom Supplies","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Foong","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7083682"},{"teacherId":4121709,"projectId":8452287,"letterContent":"On behalf of FRC Team 7272, we would like to extend our deepest gratitude for your generous support in helping us build a new, powerful workstation for our team. With your assistance, we were able to acquire the necessary components to create a state-of-the-art computer tower, including the 2TB SSD, 64GB of RAM, and other essential components. This new workstation will provide the computing power we desperately needed to produce detailed CAD animations and simulations for designing our robots, both for this season and in the years ahead.\r\n\r\nIn the past, we faced challenges when producing our FRC/UL safety animation each season. The limitations of our previous equipment made processing these complex animations difficult. Thanks to this upgrade, we now have the capability to handle the rendering demands of software such as Blender, Adobe Premiere, and DaVinci Resolve, allowing us to produce high-quality animations and videos with ease. 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