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Ms. Youel from Louisa, VA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Us Become Makers!

My students need tools to help them create items from cardboard and other recycled materials.

  • $340 goal

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My Students

Children are so versed in technology, they are starting to lose basic skills, such as creating, making, tinkering, and working with their hands!

In our Library Media Center, we have created a Makerspace to address this issue.

Our students come from all social classes, but one thing is the same - they all have access to technology in our schools. However, we are seeing more and more students lacking skills in hand-eye coordination, simple tasks such as putting things together and taking them apart, taking objects and creating new things with them. While technology is a wonderful thing and prepares students for the future, they also need these basic life skills as well.

My Project

Our Makerspace is considered "low tech," because while we are offering some technology with tablets and the few computers we have, we want students to focus on skills that emphasize hand-eye coordination, learning how to reuse or fix items that are broken, exploring how things work by taking them apart, building new things from parts, as well as other different skills that are no longer taught in school. With the Makedo kits, we will be participating in the Global Cardboard Challenge, where students will use recycled materials, like cardboard, and create something out of it - a rocket ship, a house, new inventions - their imaginations are the only limit! With the tools that Makedo offers, students will be able to use specially made tools to keep these items together, such as screws, saws and scissors created to cut cardboard, and other tools. All these items are also reusable! Not only will they help us with the challenge, we'll be able to use them again and again, year after year.

Please help us reach our goal and create students who are not only technologically versed, but also can use their imaginations to build, dream, rebuild, fix, tinker, explore, discover, and help the world around them.

Help us become part of the global Maker Movement!

Ms. Youel Moss - Nuckols Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
TOOLKIT Classroom • Makedo $255.00 1 $255.00

Materials cost

$255.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.82

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$288.82

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$50.97

Total project goal

$339.79

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $339.79

4 Donors

-$339.79

Donations toward project cost

-$288.82

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$50.97

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