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Mrs. Pederson from Lowell, MA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building Collaboration, Creativity, Communication and Critical Thinking With Breakout EDU

Help me give my students access to Breakout EDU's online platform to help build our collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity skills!

  • $155 goal

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$371 - complete this project and be a hero
Help Mrs. Pederson

Mrs. Pederson has another project! Donate to Building Connections Through Board Games! to help her classroom.

$371 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

The students who take my engineering and robotics classes are a part of a large, urban school and come from many different cultural, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. However, these pieces of their identities do not define them.

The students who take my classes are curious, creative, and in general, they are thinkers.

They come in every day willing to learn and be challenged. They are future engineers and scientists, and I want to help start them off on the right foot.

My Project

For those of us who have been to an Escape Room, we know the fun of trying to solve puzzles in creative ways. In order to be successful with solving the Escape Room puzzle, your team needs to have grit, communicate, be creative, effectively collaborate, and think critically.

Breakout EDU boxes brings the collaboration, creativity, communication, and critical thinking that is needed to solve an Escape Room puzzle into the virtual classroom with academic problems and puzzles to solve.

Especially as we get to know each other in a virtual setting, having the ability to get to know everyone in our class in an engaging, non-cookie cutter way is invaluable. What they learn from the Breakout EDU box about communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking will be used every day in our virtual classroom as we re-engage in learning and develop important skills for the virtual and actual worlds.

Mrs. Pederson Lowell High School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Lowell, MA View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Breakout EDU Teacher Membership • Breakout EDU $100.00 1 $100.00

Materials cost

$100.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$131.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$23.21

Total project goal

$154.71

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$154.71

2 Donors

-$103.14

Donations toward project cost

-$87.67

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.47

match offer

-$51.56

Match offer toward project cost

-$43.83

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.73

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$0.00

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