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Mrs. Lax from Las Vegas, NV is requesting computers & tablets through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Gifted Students Are Our Future!

My students need iPads to enhance their computer programming skills. With the iPads, we can code robots.

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

The students in my class are 3rd-5th grade Gifted and Talented students. In our school, the gifted and talented student population makes up less than 5% of our population. Our school is a Title I school, where the majority of the families are struggling and living below the poverty level. These students, that have an IQ of 130 or above, are not able to afford technology to use at home. The only experiences they get with technology is at school.

The majority of my students are Hispanic or African American, which are considered the underrepresented, gifted students.

These students are very bright, creative, and innovative. They have the ability to do great things with their lives, if they are given the right support, encouragement, and tools.

The GATE teachers are given a very small budget that is to be used first and foremost to buy our testing supplies. After testing supplies are purchased, we have very little to buy the resources needed to provide rigorous curriculum. Gifted students have a variety of interests, talents, and abilities, and we just don't have the funding to give the students opportunities and experiences they need to enhance their abilities.

My Project

In a gifted and talented classroom, students are given the opportunity to experience curriculum in a more advanced approach.

The introduction of computer programming and coding, using iPads, could lead students into the field of technology for their future.

Without these experiences, in the gifted classroom, these students might not have the opportunity to enhance their natural abilities and talents.

The iPads will allow students to use software to plan, test and modify sequences of instructions from a variety of real life robotic behaviors. The students will use critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, and communication to build and program the robots.

Mrs. Lax Clyde C Cox Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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Las Vegas, NV View local requests

Nearly all 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
iPad and Case • Best Buy Education $368.07 2 $736.14

Materials cost

$736.14

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $57.79

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.04

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$834.97

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$147.35

Total project goal

$982.32

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $982.32

5 Donors

-$815.85

Donations toward project cost

-$708.32

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$107.53

Matching donations from our partners

-$149.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$126.65

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.35

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.47

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 $0.00

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