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Mr. Timmons from Spartanburg, SC is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Inspired to Speak Up WithMalala

My students need a vinyl cutter, vinyl rolls, and the movie, He Named Me Malala.

  • $696 goal

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My Students

Have you ever not known you needed to speak up until you heard someone else do it? My students need to hear a teenager speak up for their right to have an education before they can understand the privilege they have.

At our school, we have students from a broad range of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.

While they have many differences, they still have a lot of things in common. They are kids who like to have fun and want to succeed and make a difference in their world. My students have shown great potential and I cannot wait to see what they will do as they use their education to impact people around them. They are writers, scientists, engineers, artists, politicians, teachers, and much, much more. They will be fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, and grandparents who will reach into the lives of future generations and make a change that will alter the destinies of thousands, if not millions.

My Project

My students can greatly benefit from hearing Malala's story of persecution and perseverance for the sake of her right and other girls rights to education. But once they have heard her story they need to challenged to speak up as well. They can cut out their own words to express their desires to overcome barriers to their education and others'. They can post these words around our school, community, and elsewhere. These words can remind them and those that read them of the barriers to education that are out there and the truth that we can overcome them together. They will learn how to make a difference in their own circles of influence and even bring awareness beyond where they believed possible.

The classroom will become a lab for change through donations to this project.

Donations to this project will also go beyond the classroom creating students who become advocates for their own educational rights and for the rights of others.

Mr. Timmons Fairforest Middle School Grades 6-8

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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Spartanburg, SC 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
OrangeA Vinyl Cutter Plotter Vinyl Cutter Machine Cutting Plotter Machine 53 inch 1350mm with Artcut Pro Software 3 Blades (53 Inch) • Amazon Business $365.00 1 $365.00
Vinyl Ease V0712 - 24" x 30 ft Roll of Glossy Lavender Permanent Adhesive-Backed Vinyl for Craft Cutters, Punches and Vinyl Sign Cutters • Amazon Business $45.20 1 $45.20
24" x 30 ft Roll of Matte Black Permanent Adhesive-Backed Vinyl for Craft Cutters, Punches and Vinyl Sign Cutters ? Vinyl Ease V0703 • Amazon Business $30.45 1 $30.45
24" x 30 ft Roll of Matte White Permanent Adhesive-Backed Vinyl for Craft Cutters, Punches and Vinyl Sign Cutters ? Vinyl Ease V0701 • Amazon Business $30.45 1 $30.45
He Named Me Malala • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
3D Black Carbon Fiber Film Twill Weave Vinyl Sheet Roll Wrap - 24''x60'' • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
12" x 10 ft Roll of Matte Oracal 631 Black Repositionable Adhesive-Backed Vinyl for Craft Cutters, Punches and Vinyl Sign Cutters by VinylXSticker • Amazon Business $9.12 1 $9.12

Materials cost

$512.70

Vendor shipping charges

 $4.49

Sales tax

 $36.15

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.69

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$591.03

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$104.30

Total project goal

$695.33

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $695.33

1 Donor

-$695.33

Donations toward project cost

-$591.03

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$104.30

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