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Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab from San Diego, CA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Matter Masters 1

My students need a digital compound microscope that can be hooked up to a computer.

  • $454 goal

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Help Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab

Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab has another project! Donate to iPad for Digital Drawing to help her classroom.

$955 - complete this project and be a hero

The Matter Masters think science matters! I teach science to all students, K-5, at our elementary school. We have a lot of military families as well as students who are bussed in from low income areas.

Our science lab does have some supplies, but we are in need of updated and more technologically advanced equipment.

We need to update our supplies, and one of the things that would really benefit our students is a powerful microscope that we can connect to a computer...so that everyone can see the same thing at once projected onto a screen.

Your donation will help bring matter to life! This is a very difficult area for students to conceptualize, so the microscope will be a great tool to help students understand.

Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab Vista Grande Elementary School Grades 3-5

More about Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab

San Diego, CA View local requests

More than a third 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

430 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Elementary Compound Microscope with Built in Digital Camera • Nasco $296.65 1 $296.65

Materials cost

$296.65

Vendor shipping charges

$29.67

Sales tax

$21.51

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.42

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$372.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$81.66

Total project goal

$453.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$453.66

2 Donors

-$437.65

Donations toward project cost

-$372.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$65.65

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$16.01

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$0.00

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