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Ms. Laman from Toronto, OH is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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STEM: Building and Inspiring

Help me give my students the supplies needed to have an incredible STEM class!

  • $592 goal

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My Students

Since I teach such a wide range of students, I truly get to interact with all personality types. My students are loving, strong, and imaginative. They go out of their way to include and help each other. They are able to learn from their mistakes and persevere through challenges.

My Project

The materials I have included in this project are for my students to create toothpick bridges and egg drop apparatuses. The toothpick bridge project requires the students to use either flat, round, or a combination of both style toothpicks and school glue to create a bridge that can support at least 5 pounds. I usually have to limit the amount of materials that each team gets because of money constraints. However, if this project was funded, then my students could build the bridges they can design without any type of constraint. The egg drop project requires the students to build a container that will keep a raw egg safe when dropped from a second story balcony. I have not been able to offer cardboard as a material item before because it is hard to find in my area. Cotton balls are also a very popular item and I usually have to ration them out to each group. STEM is all about building and trying and building again. My students have not yet has this opportunity because I just could not afford the materials to keep going. It will make a huge difference for my students to get to use the engineering design process from start to finish, instead of stopping half way!

Ms. Laman Toronto High School Grades 9-12

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Toronto, OH View local requests

More than half 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

150 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Cotton Ball Triple Bag of 100 • Nasco $1.95 100 $195.00
TK44763000T Corrugated Pads Single Wall 15 in Width 15 in Length 32 ECT C Flute • Grainger $0.79 100 $79.00
Pacon Toothpicks - Flat - Box of 2500 • Nasco $2.72 24 $65.28
TK44762999T Corrugated Pads Single Wall 7 78 in Width 7 78 in Length 32 ECT C Flute PK 100 • Grainger $19.63 2 $39.26
Toothpicks - Round - Box of 800 • Nasco $1.63 24 $39.12
Advantage Natural Latex Rubber Bands - 1-lb. Box • Nasco $5.60 3 $16.80

Materials cost

$434.46

Vendor shipping charges

 $31.62

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$502.60

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$88.69

Total project goal

$591.29

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $591.29

1 Donor

-$494.10

Donations toward project cost

-$494.10

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$10.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$8.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$87.19

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 $0.00

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