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Ms. Salazar from Phoenix, AZ is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Exploring History Through Virtual Reality!

Help me give my students an Oculus VR Headset as they would have the chance to explore different parts of the world and "travel back in time" to experience historical events to make social studies more interactive.

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My Project

AZACS is the first tuition-free, public charter school in Arizona focused on the educational needs of children with autism. We serve students across the spectrum-non verbal, low academic skills to highly verbal high academic students. This year we will be graduating our first High School class. Many of our parents never dreamed this would be possible. My students are bright and inquisitive students that have a thirst for learning! For some of my students, it can be hard to be engaged with social studies because they do not see how history affects them nor does it feel familiar to them. My students are very interested in gaming and technology.

I believe incorporating a VR headset will help the students to have a more hands-on engaging approach to learning and understanding our history and the world.

In the past two years, we have navigated COVID-19. We shut down like the rest of Arizona when it first hit. However, we were the first school to reopen that June with an appointment based school program and then have students return on campus full time by October 2020 in our brand new main campus. Some of my students do not have the resources or the opportunities to travel outside of Phoenix. I would love for my students to be able to go on field trips but that is still difficult to navigate while still in a pandemic.

Ms. Salazar Arizona Autism Charter School Main Campus Grades 9-12

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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Phoenix, AZ View local requests 35 students impacted 4donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Oculus - Quest 2 Advanced All-In-One Virtual Reality Headset - 256GB • Best Buy Education $408.61 1 $408.61

Materials cost

$408.61

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $29.22

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.13

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$473.96

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$83.64

Total project goal

$557.60

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $557.60

3 Donors

-$489.95

Donations toward project cost

-$431.46

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.49

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.65

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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