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Mrs. Romero from Los Angeles, CA is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Batteries For Our Competition Robots!

Help me give my students multiple batteries to ensure their competition robots are fully charged!

  • $922 goal

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My Project

My students are intelligent, creative, and competitive! Through our First Tech Challenge robotics program they are learning the value of team work, cooperation, and competition while participating in a high level engineering and programming challenge.

In order for our robots to perform at their best, we need to rotate out the batteries to ensure they are fully charged at all times.

Unfortunately, right now we only have two batteries; one for each robot. This makes it difficult to keep the batteries at 100%. Help my students increase the performance of their robots. Thank you in advance for your support!

Mrs. Romero Palms Middle School Grades 6-8

Equity Focus

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More about Mrs. Romero

Los Angeles, CA 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

999 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
12V Slim Battery • REV Robotics $55.00 12 $660.00

Materials cost

$660.00

Vendor shipping charges

$23.00

Sales tax

$60.39

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.90

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$783.29

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$138.23

Total project goal

$921.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$921.52

5 Donors

-$458.99

Donations toward project cost

-$393.15

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$65.84

match offer

-$458.98

Match offer toward project cost

-$390.13

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$68.85

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.54

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$0.00

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