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Ms. Dean from Monroeville, AL is requesting materials related to food, clothing & hygiene through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Food for Thought for Future STEM Leaders

Help me give my students a classroom refrigerator to store snacks for after school Teen Science Cafe program. The freezer will also be used for certain labs.

  • $307 goal

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Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Project

Some of my students will be participating in a Teen Science Cafe (TSC) program that is designed to help teens become leaders and innovators in their community. During a teen science cafe session, teens socialize over teen-friendly food and drink, have a lively conversation with a local scientist and/or engineer about current cutting-edge developments in their fields, and participate in a hands-on activity related to the scientist and/engineer.

Students are hungry by the end of the day.

From experience, hungry students find it hard to focus. Unfortunately, there isn’t money to have food catered in. Also, some labs require ice baths, frozen liquids, or samples to be refrigerated.

This refrigerator will be used for the program to store drinks and snacks for the children. It can also come in handy when we are doing some of our labs during school that do not involve chemicals.

Ms. Dean
HBCU Alum HBCU Alum Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Insignia? - 4.9 Cu. Ft. Mini Fridge with Bottom Freezer - Stainless steel • Best Buy Education $210.62 1 $210.62

Materials cost

$210.62

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$17.17

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.16

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$260.95

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$46.05

Total project goal

$307.00

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$307.00

4 Donors

-$166.00

Donations toward project cost

-$141.10

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.90

match offer

-$141.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$119.85

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.15

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$0.00

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