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Mr. Smith from Suitland, MD is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Replace Crashing Computers!

My students need a new 64 bit computer and monitor for editing HD video!

  • $1,202 goal

This project expired on April 11, 2017.

This project expired on April 11, 2017.

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

I teach Technology and Media Arts (formerly TV Production) to K-8 students in a Creative & Performing Arts Academy. Our K-5th grade students learn a variety of art disciplines, including Dance, Drama, Visual Art, Music, and (Digital) Media Arts. Our 6th-8th grade students select a major to focus on for three years, where they routinely complete college level assignments.

We are a public school, but a magnet program.

K-5 students are selected via a lottery. 6th-8th grade students audition for placement into their major.

My Project

Our Media Arts computer lab has many 32 bit computers. These work fine for surfing the web, editing images, editing audio, and of course the ubiquitous standardized test. What they don't do so well, unfortunately, is edit video.

My class is in desperate need of more computers that are powerful enough to edit HD video, which is the main focus of our Media Arts program.

At this point we have a few, but we have many more students than we have machines. Some students feel compelled to edit their short stories, documentaries, and tutorials on the older computers, but then they become frustrated when the editing software runs out of resources and crashes during the export process.

Replacing an entire computer lab is far too much sticker shock, so I'm aiming to replace one computer and monitor at a time. As the older computers are still serviceable for everything other than video editing, they will be given to other classrooms in the building as they are replaced.

Mr. Smith
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
DELL CTO OPTI 5040 I76700 500GB 16GB • CDW-G $794.95 1 $794.95
Dell E2016H LED monitor 20 • CDW-G $109.61 1 $109.61
C2G 6ft DisplayPort Cable Digital Audio Video M M Black • CDW-G $17.77 1 $17.77

Materials cost

$922.33

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Sales tax

 $55.34

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,021.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$180.26

Total project goal

$1,201.76

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