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Ms. Simon from Baltimore, MD is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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3-D Printing With Some Super Special Students!

My students need a Makerbot Promotional Bundle, with 3-D printer, red, blue and white filament and a 2-year service plan.

  • $4,391 goal

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My Students

"Of the 20 fastest growing careers, 15 of them require a background in math or science". -The National Math and Science Initiative

I teach a group of 25 students with special needs ranging in grades from 2nd-5th grade.

My students' disabilities range from Autism to ADHD and many others in between. These students learn in different ways and paper/pencil tasks do not motivate them. We do a lot of hands on, interactive learning where the students become a part of what they are learning about in order to fully understand the concepts and meet all of their IEP goals. All of my students' special needs mean that they need extra help with math.

My Project

My students need a Makerbot Promotional Bundle, with 3-D printer, red, blue and white filament and a 2-year service plan. In order to be prepared for middle school, high school, college and then the "real world", my students need to be gaining as many career readiness skills as possible while in elementary schools. STEM is one way for my students to gain these skills and by having a 3-D printer. The students will be able to use these STEM skills that they are learning to create real tangible things. My students can use the math, science, reading, technology, arts and other skills they are learning on a daily basis and put them into action. The students are learning coding skills on a weekly basis and learning how to move robots around the building using these skills. I believe that it would be just as beneficial to take the other skills the students are learning and have them move those skills into creating things with a 3-D printer. This would be a huge benefit not just to my students, but to the entire school of around 600 students who will see what we are doing.

Your donations will help my students gain a very important resource to help them become ready for the very technology advanced world around them.

Thank you in advance for your donations to this project and for helping me create a technology-rich environment for my students.

Ms. Simon Patterson Park Charter School 327 Grades 3-5

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Baltimore, MD View local requests

More than 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

150 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
MakerBot Promotional Bundle • Best Buy Education $3,443.95 1 $3,443.95

Materials cost

$3,443.95

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $206.64

3rd party payment processing fee

$51.66

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$3,732.25

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$658.63

Total project goal

$4,390.88

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $4,390.88

1 Donor

-$4,390.88

Donations toward project cost

-$3,732.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$658.63

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