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Mr. Singer from San Rafael, CA is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Laser Cutting Into the Future

My students need a 90W replacement laser tube for our laser cutter.

  • $2,341 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

Our Maker Tech Lab is constantly filled with excited students ready to create and make, from first bell through lunch, to long after school gets out. The spark of invention burns most brightly when their ideas can take physical form quickly. I am constantly astonished by what these young engineers, given access to a space with precise tools, can envision and create.

Our hundreds of eager Makers form an incredible mix of backgrounds, with about sixty percent Latino and about the same from socioeconomically disadvantaged families.

Being in the middle of Marin county, there is a middle-class and affluent population as well, making for a truly diverse student body. Our young engineers bring a set of energy curiosities and concerns as diverse as their backgrounds, from worrying about their family's energy bill to wanting to know how the solar panels on their roof works. Students in the Maker Technology, Exploring Maker Technology and Maker Club programs are given the opportunity to build and create to address real-world problems; it makes their schoolwork relevant, real and not really feel at all like work.

My Project

This grant would fund a spare laser tube for the most sought-after and useful tool in our classroom: the laser cutter! Funded through generous donations from a myriad of supporters, our laser cutter has quickly transformed the quality and complexity of student projects and has taken their inventions to the next level. As amazing as the laser cutter is, it has an expensive and consumable part: the laser tube, which can last anywhere from 1-5 years.

Someday in the not-so-distant future, the amazing creations students fabricate on the laser cutter could grind to a halt when the current laser tube burns out, so we are planning ahead and ensuring that the student innovation fueled by this incredible tool will continue long into the future without interruption!

With a spare laser tube sitting in the wings, student innovation will continue uninterrupted, ensuring that maker-centered learning continues at a high-level in our classroom.

In having that precious resource secured, students can continue to use the laser cutter well into the future to design tiny model homes for the homeless, make chassis and pulleys for their solar cars, create gears and fanciful robotic bodies, and make their digital creations come to life. The wonderful opportunities available to our current students can be secured for future years of students, securing an exciting an innovative future for all our young engineers!

Mr. Singer
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
90W CO2 Laser Tube with Gold Catalyst • Full Spectrum Laser $1,500.00 1 $1,500.00

Materials cost

$1,500.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $300.00

Sales tax

 $137.25

3rd party payment processing fee

$22.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,989.75

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$351.13

Total project goal

$2,340.88

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $2,340.88

16 Donors

-$1,928.48

Donations toward project cost

-$1,639.21

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$289.27

match offer

-$412.40

Match offer toward project cost

-$350.54

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$61.86

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