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Ms. Martinez from Brooklyn, NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Making a Good Impression With Hand and Face Casting

My students need materials for casting hands and faces. These products are hypoallergenic for safety.

  • $406 goal

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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

Students at my school are kids who have struggled to complete High School. Many come from low income neighborhoods, and struggle through the heavy weight issues of poverty that no young person should ever have to deal with. Other have a history of disrupted education, so that they have been moved around quite a lot in their school history, and now find themselves making up for lost time. There are cases where students spend extended time out of school due to health issues, and other cases where a student's attendance to school suffered due to bullying, need to work, or poor decisions, with no adult looking out for them.

At our school we try to help catch those kids who have managed to slip through the cracks, and help them get back on track to graduate, set future goals, and gain skills for independence.

My Project

The process of making a mold and cast of one's own hand, and face, is a personal, and high interest art project that sets kids up to succeed. The look of pride on a student's face as they open their mold to reveal a life like cast of their hand is priceless. It's a look that every child's face should know, and that's what this project gives them.

Students will personalize their hand casts.

Some will keep them, and others will give them as gifts to a parent, or someone else special. They will know the joy of giving something they made.

After students have made hand casts, they will work together to make facial casts. This supports team work, and problem solving, as they take their previous success to the next level.

Ms. Martinez Brooklyn Academy High School Grades 9-12

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Brooklyn, NY View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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
33579-1020: ArtMolds Hollywood Impressions - 20 lb • Blick Art Materials $204.42 1 $204.42
33572-1006: ArtMolds LifeRite - 473 ml • Blick Art Materials $49.12 1 $49.12
33537-1025: Densite Plaster - Bag, 25 lb Bag • Blick Art Materials $14.48 2 $28.96
Standard Shipping • Blick Art Materials $0.00 1 $0.00

Materials cost

$282.50

Vendor shipping charges

 $28.25

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.24

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$344.99

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$60.88

Total project goal

$405.87

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $405.87

4 Donors

-$405.87

Donations toward project cost

-$344.99

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$60.88

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