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Mr. O'Searcoid from Buxton ME is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Interdisciplinary 3D Chess Exhibition

My students need a Makergear M2 printer to make 3D prints. Each student will design and print their own chess set using combinations of cones, cylinders and spheres, manipulated using various geometric transformations.

  • $2,322 goal

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My Students

When you walk down the halls of our middle school, or sit in our assembly, one word in particular comes to mind: pride. Maine is a state full of proud people, who regardless of circumstance, try to conduct themselves with dignity. While our students live in a district with high rates of poverty where many qualify for free lunches and others bring home food on weekends through our school backpack program, each child arrives at school hungry for knowledge and ready to learn.

Sometimes, rural Maine can feel like an island, isolated from the outside world.

As teachers, our challenge is to bring the outside world to our students, and to show them the opportunities and rewards that exist for those who pursue them. Our students are ambitious, entrepreneurial, and visionary. They will be the ones to build the bridges and networks of tomorrow. They are the faces of the future, bright eyed and ready for action.

My Project

Students will learn how to play chess before they delve into the world of geometric transformations and volumes of geometric solids. During a 10-week project, students will learn how to apply mathematical skills using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software as they design their own unique chess sets. Meanwhile, students will explore chess literature before making connections with war and conflict and associated journalism and historical and contemporary works of literary and social interest.

Students will use the 3D-printed chess sets they create to play simultaneous exhibition games against their teacher, to which the community will be invited.

Students will learn the value of Mathematics in an increasingly technological world, and the appreciation of the significant relevance of literature and media in our society. Your donations will help them achieve where many of them have not even imagined possible. Thank you!

Mr. O'Searcoid
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
MakerGear M2 Desktop 3D Printer, Black • Amazon Business $1,825.00 1 $1,825.00

Materials cost

$1,825.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $91.25

3rd party payment processing fee

$27.38

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,973.63

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$348.29

Total project goal

$2,321.92

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $2,321.92

32 Donors

-$1,910.45

Donations toward project cost

-$1,646.38

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$264.07

Matching donations from our partners

-$385.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$327.25

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$57.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$26.47

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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