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Mr. Smith from Suitland MD is requesting computers & tablets through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Raspberry Pi 4 for Coding and Graphics!

Help me give my students opportunities to learn coding, graphic design, and other forms of computer science using the Raspberry Pi!

  • $196 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

I teach Technology and Media Arts to K-8 students in a Creative & Performing Arts Academy that serves a predominantly African American population. Our K-5th grade students enter the school trough a lottery system and learn a variety of art disciplines, including Dance, Drama, Visual Art, Music, and (Digital) Media Arts. Our 6th-8th grade students audition for a major to focus on for three years, where they routinely complete college level assignments.

The goal of my curriculum is to place real-world creative skills in the hands of my students.

We are a public school, but a magnet program. K-5 students are selected via a lottery. 6th-8th grade students audition for placement into their major.

My Project

I teach some level of coding, graphic design, audio editing, and video creation with all of my K-8 students, but some of our computers are not well equipped to handle all of these activities and I am actively trying to replace them one by one. If this project looks familiar to you, it's because with the help of generous donations I've already begun the process and have students learning on the new Pi computers.

The Raspberry Pi 4 is a super inexpensive but robust platform with access to free programs that work with every part of my curriculum.

This will not be a device that is used for a single lesson before being packed away until next year. Rather, we are ALREADY using our 5 existing Raspberry Pi computers every day as my students gain more STEAM knowledge and skills through programs like Scratch, Audacity, Inkscape, Openshot, Code.org, and more. Alas, 5 Pi computers is a far cry from a class set, so I'd like to add more.

Mr. Smith
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
CANAKIT RASPBERRY PI • Best Buy Education $105.73 1 $105.73
Tripp Lite Micro HDMI to VGA Adapter Converter with Audio Smartphone / Tablet / Ultrabook - video converter - black • Best Buy Education $21.34 1 $21.34

Materials cost

$127.07

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$7.62

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$166.60

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$29.40

Total project goal

$196.00

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$196.00

4 Donors

-$191.59

Donations toward project cost

-$166.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.99

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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$0.00

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