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Mr. Pena from Pasadena, TX is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Ultimate Makerspace

Help me give my students the Ultimate Makespace area in our classroom to create and design projects.

  • $595 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

We have almost 500 students enrolled at our campus. The majority of our students are English language learners and qualify for free lunch programs.

They come eager to learn and excited to take on any challenge.

We offer 4 special classes that they go to in a rotation through the week. These are art, music, gym and mine is the technology class. I strive to turn my classroom to an innovative STEAM class with coding being a foundational skill that all my students

My Project

A Makerspace is an area of the classroom where students come to explore, build, create, tinker, invent and purposefully play. In a Makerspace, students have the opportunities to discover, problem solve, construct and test their projects.

Students are learning without turning to the teacher for directions or receiving steps from the teacher at the center.

The students are the ones directing the action and learning.

My studetns work on projects throughout the school year. We particiopate in the Cardboard Challenge where they take scrap cardboard and turn it into an arcade game. They have science fair projects and Gifted and Talented projects they showcase at school and the district. We also have students participate in the Inventor’s Showcase where they create a unique invention and display their item.

As their computer lab teacher they do alot of the research here with me and we work on the display board in here as well.

Mr. Pena Richey Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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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Pasadena, TX View local requests

Nearly all 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

521 students impacted 4donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Cricut Explore Air 2, Mint • Amazon Business $179.00 1 $179.00
Cricut Easy Press • Amazon Business $139.99 1 $139.99
Fat Catalog - ALT-1102AC-SO ALT1102ACSO Metal Stack Stools with Padded Seat, Red/Purple/Blue/Green/Yellow (Pack of 5) • Amazon Business $77.00 1 $77.00
Prime Sign Permanent Vinyl for Cricut, 80 Pack Vinyl Sheets,40 Assorted Colors Permanent Adhesive Backed Vinyl Sheets Set - 12"x12"（Glossy） for Coffe Cups, Mugs, Home Deco, Window Deco, and other DIY projects • Amazon Business $25.59 1 $25.59
GIFTEXPRESS 12 Assorted Colored Duct Tapes 10 Yards x 2 Inch Rolls,12 Multi Purposes Bright Colors Tapes Great for DIY Art Kit Home School, Colors: Black Navy Purple red Orange White Teal Lime Green • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Cricut Easy 12"x12" EasyPress, Protective Resistant Mat for Heat Press Machines and HTV and Iron On Projects, [12" x 12"], Gray • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Cricut 2006695 Tools Basic CORE Color • Amazon Business $13.00 1 $13.00

Materials cost

$468.56

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.03

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$505.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$89.22

Total project goal

$594.81

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $594.81

2 Donors

-$347.89

Donations toward project cost

-$344.14

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

match offer

-$189.94

Match offer toward project cost

-$161.45

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.49

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$56.98

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 $0.00

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