{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Queens Satellite High School for Opportunity","outOfStateSupporters":47.8,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":105598,"projectId":9941892,"letterContent":"As the year comes to a close, we make a lot of preparations for the summer and the new school year. One I am grateful for is the refreshing of our air purifier. Since we received the purifier through DonorsChoose, I've regularly shown students how much dust has been captured and what we've been spared from breathing. This little box makes the room fresher and cleaner. Thanks to you, as soon as September begins we will have the new filters in place ready to spare a new group of students from dust and allergens. Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1779412222126,"projectUrl":"project/air-purifier-replacement-filters/9941892/","projectTitle":"Air Purifier Replacement Filters","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Wolf","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp105598_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1659531638843","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/queenssatellitescience"},{"teacherId":105598,"projectId":9790878,"letterContent":"Moving to a new school this year was a difficult decision. It thrust me into the role of a first-year teacher again for the first time in 20 years. Part of that challenge was rebuilding the lab infrastructure I had for many years. I should have known however that the decision would be so much easier with my Donorschoose community on my side to make the transition easier. The microwave and ice maker you donated are tools I will use for years to come. More immediately though, they facilitated a month and a half of science learning that will extend far beyond my classroom. Students collected, filtered, and copied their DNA, chilling their samples with ice from the machine you donated. The microwave was essential for us to make and pour our own gels so they could visualize their DNA. \r\n\r\n The results from there were equally as stunning. Everyone compared their DNA sequences to one another, and resoundingly a pattern emerged: DNA does not follow the racial divisions we often ascribe to one another. It is a powerful moment when science upends long-held assumptions about how the world works. My students walked away feeling a deep sense of connection with each other. They also are prepared to face down racial injustice with the simple fact that it is a lie made up to give power to some and deny it to others. \r\n\r\n Your donation made this moment possible. I and my students are grateful for your generosity in making this wonderful learning happen.","fullyFundedDate":1763582384706,"projectUrl":"project/ice-ice-microwave-baby-dna-science-r/9790878/","projectTitle":"Ice, Ice, Microwave, Baby: DNA Science Requires Ice and Heat!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Wolf","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp105598_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1659531638843","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/queenssatellitescience"},{"teacherId":105598,"projectId":9518960,"letterContent":"When I get to school before the students, there's a new routine. I put on a pot of boiling water, and add coffee to the machine. We've been doing this routine for a few weeks now, but your donations have supercharged it. The water filters mean I don't need to lug pots upstairs, and students can stay in class and drink from the faucet when they are thirsty. Your donations mean we can keep going through the spring and maybe even into next year with the teas, hot cocoa, and coffee you donated. \r\n \r\n\r\n My students commented, \"ooooh, fancy cups,\" when they saw the mugs and mug tree, as well. It's something simple, but it's making the classroom feel more like home. All year I've wanted them to see our school as more than a place just to do work - I've wanted them to see it is a community. Thank you for your help in getting us closer to that goal!","fullyFundedDate":1772116130839,"projectUrl":"project/filtered-water-and-drinks-save-time-and/9518960/","projectTitle":"Filtered Water and Drinks Save Time and Money","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Wolf","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp105598_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1659531638843","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/queenssatellitescience"},{"teacherId":105598,"projectId":9869313,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generosity in the form of these DNA kits and models. My students used them to understand the structure of DNA during our Race and DNA project. From understanding the structure and the importance of the bases, students went on to compare their own sequences to one another. The result? The race they see on the outside doesn't tell us much about who we are related to. White teachers and students were more related to Asians. Students and teachers from Africa and the Caribbean were more related to Latinos than one another. It was a powerful result that helped these young people use science to address the injustice of one of the most persistent myths of our society. Your contribution made it happen!","fullyFundedDate":1767243262634,"projectUrl":"project/myth-of-race-debunked-with-molecular-mod/9869313/","projectTitle":"Myth Of Race Debunked with Molecular Modeling Kits, Part 2","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Wolf","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp105598_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1659531638843","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/queenssatellitescience"},{"teacherId":105598,"projectId":9819542,"letterContent":"Today around 12:15, something miraculous happened. My tough class, which often induces anxiety before they come in, went really well. I had a hypothesis that they were less able to focus and chattier at this time because they still have an hour to go until lunch. It seemed I was proven right even before they sat down, because one student came in and said \"I'm hungry,\" before even seeing the spread of snacks alongside the do now handouts on the front table. I gave them a few minutes to eat while they had their do now question, and there was more focus, less chatter, and overall more work done. I don't want to declare it a perfect class, because there are still those stragglers who aren't managing their time well yet, but it was progress. It was thanks to you that I was able to even begin to work on this problem - the snacks made a difference. As long as they last, I'm going to keep bringing them out for classes and to entice more students to stay for clubs. You made a tangible difference in my day and my students' day, and for that, thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1762526601368,"projectUrl":"project/learning-all-day-snacks-keep-hunger-at/9819542/","projectTitle":"Learning All Day? Snacks Keep Hunger at Bay!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Wolf","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp105598_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1659531638843","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/queenssatellitescience"},{"teacherId":105598,"projectId":9419875,"letterContent":"Thank you for the vacuum! When I opened the box at my Green Team club the other day, one student exclaimed, \"you got a Dyson!?\" I guess the brand has some cache with the students! She was excited to unbox and get it set up, and while we had a mess being made all around us with soil and plants, instead of some grumbling about clean up, everyone was excited to be the first to try the new vacuum. In my experience, when you give students powerful tools for making menial work fast and fun, they want to do those jobs. Thank you for giving us this great tool for getting the job done, and giving me some brand-name cred in the process!","fullyFundedDate":1760021484587,"projectUrl":"project/nature-abhors-a-vacuum-but-we-would-lov/9419875/","projectTitle":"Nature Abhors A Vacuum, But We Would Love One!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Wolf","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp105598_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1659531638843","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/queenssatellitescience"},{"teacherId":105598,"projectId":9671489,"letterContent":"Thank you for the gift of these books! I like to practice what I encourage in my students - a never-ending love of learning and growth. I opened these books this morning and to me it was like the holidays. I couldn't wait to get started and on my bus ride home I was learning about sonification and the bioacoustics of plants and animals. I know that when I bring my students out to listen to birds, I'm going to be using tidbits from this book to enhance their appreciation of the sounds of our neighborhood. With all of these books, I know they are going to inform and inspire how I plan class projects, especially for the topic of climate change.\r\n\r\n Thank you for helping me grow my skills as a teacher and a citizen so I can pass it along to my students!","fullyFundedDate":1760912148049,"projectUrl":"project/science-and-social-justice-learning/9671489/","projectTitle":"Science and Social Justice Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Wolf","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp105598_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1659531638843","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/queenssatellitescience"},{"teacherId":105598,"projectId":9423033,"letterContent":"These past several days in my classroom have been scientific but also magical. My students began our behavior experiments by making observations and journaling about the critters you donated. Students started by expressing their fears about insects, and encouragingly, not a lot of them had that fear! They did relate to the ways insects behave and express their own fear, the beginning of expressing empathy for non-human living things! All the while I got to see the amazing artistry some students already possess. Others are at the start of that journey of being better observers and artists. All in all, this donation has made an impact that would not happen otherwise. I am excited to continue next week as students build their experiments around these critters and really become scientists themselves. Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1755443690347,"projectUrl":"project/hairless-millipedes-chambers-of-choice/9423033/","projectTitle":"Hairless Millipedes & Chambers Of Choices: Live Animal Behavior Experiments!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Wolf","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp105598_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1659531638843","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/queenssatellitescience"},{"teacherId":105598,"projectId":9424641,"letterContent":"This is one of the most boring but most necessary projects I think I ask for. Tape doesn't seem important but it makes a world of difference in every project we do. Just this week we started insect behavior experiments with a few days of observation and journaling. Just having the right tape to add to the habitats made it easy for students to learn new names of the critters. Next week we will be using the tape on behavior choice chambers, and students will be labeling their variables for their experiments. Throughout the year, this tape will go on test tubes for DNA experiments, air quality samples, and more. Good tape like this is versatile and the quality makes everything stay on and come off smoothly. Thank you for helping us get this lab necessity!","fullyFundedDate":1754371885891,"projectUrl":"project/avoid-a-sticky-situation-use-tape-to-la/9424641/","projectTitle":"Avoid a Sticky Situation: Use Tape to Label Your Samples!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Wolf","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp105598_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1659531638843","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/queenssatellitescience"},{"teacherId":105598,"projectId":9420022,"letterContent":"These past several days in my classroom have been scientific but also magical. My students began our behavior experiments by making observations and journaling about the critters you donated. Students started by expressing their fears about insects, and encouragingly, not a lot of them had that fear! They did relate to the ways insects behave and express their own fear, the beginning of expressing empathy for non-human living things! All the while I got to see the amazing artistry some students already possess. Others are at the start of that journey of being better observers and artists. All in all, this donation has made an impact that would not happen otherwise. I am excited to continue next week as students build their experiments around these critters and really become scientists themselves. Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1750863907211,"projectUrl":"project/get-the-learning-bug-with-real-insects/9420022/","projectTitle":"Get the Learning Bug with Real Insects","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Wolf","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp105598_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1659531638843","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/queenssatellitescience"},{"teacherId":105598,"projectId":9424483,"letterContent":"This past Thursday, I initiated my school's first Green Team with a simple charge - make the school more beautiful and greener. The students who gathered were more than up to the task, but even more importantly, they were able to implement their vision because of the plants and markers you donated. We used time talking about why plants are beneficial, and students even shared how this was their first opportunity since they left their home countries for them to plant something (I learned how pineapples and lemons are propagated from one student).\r\n\r\n Next we will bring these plants around the school, and students will brainstorm and implement even more ideas for the school to become more sustainable - recycling cans, scrap paper reuse - we will see what they want to do! This is just the beginning, and it is thanks to you we were able to get it off the ground. Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1755871847849,"projectUrl":"project/growing-green-thumbs-scientists-green/9424483/","projectTitle":"Growing Green Thumbs & Scientists, Greening Our School, Part 1","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Wolf","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp105598_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1659531638843","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/queenssatellitescience"},{"teacherId":2511395,"projectId":9658566,"letterContent":"We want to express our heartfelt thanks for your generous donation, which has truly strengthened our school community through the sport of soccer. Your support has given our players not only the equipment they need but also a powerful boost in morale and confidence. Knowing that people around the world genuinely care about their well-being has inspired them to believe in themselves both on and off the field. This sense of encouragement and belonging has brought our students closer together, creating a positive and uplifting environment where everyone feels valued and motivated to succeed.","fullyFundedDate":1758899011644,"projectUrl":"project/lets-spread-the-love-for-learning-throug/9658566/","projectTitle":"Lets Spread the Love for Learning Through Soccer Please Help","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Whittaker","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2511395_orig.jpg?crop=1200,1200,x181,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565216730416","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2511395"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_102468","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":190,"numTeachers":12,"percentFrplEligible":79,"percentAsian":16,"percentBlack":19,"percentWhite":4,"percentIndigenous":6,"percentLatinx":50,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":2,"percentMultiracialImputed":0,"gradesServed":"9 - 12","studentTeacherRatio":"15.8:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":52.2,"schoolId":102468,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Queens Satellite High School for Opportunity on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Queens Satellite High School for Opportunity","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/new-york/new-york-city-dept-of-ed/queens-satellite-high-school-oppor/102468"}