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Ms. Espinosa from Phoenix, AZ is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Start-up Chess Team in a Title I School!

Help me give my students chess bags, timers, and score sheets, the supplies to start a chess team and compete with other high schools!

  • $828 goal

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Hooray! This project is fully funded

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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 Project

Students at our school are extremely unique and their educational experience is math and science oriented. They have few electives to choose from and instead spend additional time outside of the regular school day to do the things they love like art, ceramics, learning about climate change, and CHESS. They spend the majority of their time learning complex topics and chess is a way for them to not be so "academic" but still practice critical thinking skills. They love to play, however, we do not have enough resources to support everyone's joy in chess.

Please help our students improve their cognitive skills through chess!

They need the basics like chess boards/pieces and clocks. We also hope to start competing with other schools, something that has never been done before. We are in need of chess tournament bags and supplies. They are highly intelligent kids who need more challenges and experiences outside of our small school and they will be able to do that through chess. Please consider supporting our students in having representation in chess tournaments of small public school chess players.

Ms. Espinosa
Grades 9-12

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Wholesale Chess Heavy Tournament Triple Weighted Chess Set Combo (Green) • Amazon Business $40.99 10 $409.90
Wholesale Chess Advanced Digital Chess & Game Timer with Bonus and Delay • Amazon Business $27.99 5 $139.95
Chess Scorebook: Chess Game Score Sheet Log Book for Chess Players - Green • Amazon Business $6.97 10 $69.70

Materials cost

$619.55

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $44.30

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.29

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$703.14

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$124.08

Total project goal

$827.22

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $827.22

5 Donors

-$325.74

Donations toward project cost

-$276.88

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$48.86

Matching donations from our partners

-$501.48

Match offers toward project cost

-$426.26

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$75.22

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