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Ms. Steffen from New York NY is requesting computers & tablets through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Tech Connection: A Laptop for Literature Class

Help me give my students a Macbook Air laptop that I can also use to prepare lessons and grade assignments.

  • $1,275 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Project

My students are the most intelligent, creative, and hardworking group of people I have ever met. I am requesting a Macbook Air laptop so that I can continue to challenge them and connect them to the latest in digital learning platforms and opportunities. In my district, teachers are not supplied with working laptops. I currently bring my own personal laptop from home to do work at school. However, my laptop is over five years old and already starting to show signs of wearing down.

A Macbook Air laptop will allow me to connect to classroom projectors to display lessons, as well as plan those lessons and units during my prep periods.

It will also allow me to grade assignments submitted through Google Classroom.

Ms. Steffen
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
MacBook Air 13.3' Laptop - Apple M1 chip - 8GB Memory - 256GB SSD (Latest Model) - Silver • Best Buy Education $998.92 1 $998.92
Moshi - Pluma case for MacBook Pro/Air 13 • Best Buy Education $38.82 1 $38.82

Materials cost

$1,037.74

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$15.57

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,083.31

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$191.17

Total project goal

$1,274.48

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,274.48

17 Donors

-$1,081.11

Donations toward project cost

-$932.44

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$148.67

Matching donations from our partners

-$177.50

Match offers toward project cost

-$150.88

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.62

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$15.88

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 $0.00

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As a teacher-founded nonprofit, we're trusted by thousands of teachers and supporters across the country. This classroom request for funding was created by Ms. Steffen and reviewed by the DonorsChoose team.

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