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Mr. Dorn from Saint Louis, MO is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Visualizing The Microscopic

My students need an LCD projector in order to utilize all of the amazing science multimedia provided with our text books and available on the internet.

  • $1,125 goal

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My students make the choice to attend school in an inner city, urban high school in Missouri. On the whole, the school services students who are classified as "high poverty" including students who are recent immigrants, English language learners, supporting their families with after school jobs, or . However, this classification does not do these students the service they deserve. Despite the fact that most of my students face indescribable obstacles in their lives, they continually get up every morning to face those obstacles knowing that their education will help their lives. Needless to say, schools in urban areas have a difficult situation when it comes to funding. At our school, we have difficulty keeping our copier filled with paper and getting enough seats for our large class sizes, let alone providing teachers with tools for multimedia. In my classroom, these exceptional high school students learn physical science, biology, and earth science. While we have excellent textbooks with literally thousands of computer based videos, pictures, and presentations, we have no way of presenting these resources to the entire class. As educational research has shown, not all people learn the same. When a teacher simply states information, some students may understand. When a student reads that piece of information, some students may understand. However, when a group of student sees that information in the form of a picture or video, hears it, and reads it, the chances of all students understanding in infinitely higher. By having an LCD projector for our science classroom, we’ll be able to access all of the amazing multimedia based resources for science. This would undoubtedly change the entire way my classroom operates and how my students learn. I fully believe that every student deserves the opportunity to learn how they learn best, and by providing my students with the opportunity to access information visually, you can ensure that each student will be able to excel in a very difficult situation and enable them to change their life paths.

Mr. Dorn Soldan International Studies High School Grades 9-12

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More about Mr. Dorn

Saint Louis, MO 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

150 students impacted 16donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
CP-X253 LCD Projector • SchoolOutfitters.com $774.99 1 $774.99

Materials cost

$774.99

Vendor shipping charges

 $77.50

Sales tax

 $32.78

3rd party payment processing fee

$19.37

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$922.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$202.39

Total project goal

$1,124.39

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,124.39

13 Donors

-$542.20

Donations toward project cost

-$460.87

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$81.33

match offer

-$542.51

Match offer toward project cost

-$444.86

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$97.65

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$19.84

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 $0.00

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