DonorsChoose projects
Creating a creative workspace for students.
Current projects
We did it!
- Engineering Oakland: Students Build a Scraper Bike DJ Station - May 9, 2025
- Recording Studio for Game Designers* - Apr 24, 2025
- Game Design Hits Different in CMYK* - Apr 24, 2025
- Mo’ Iterative Cycles, Mo’ Materials* - Apr 24, 2025
- Students Cooking Rice for Each Other - Mar 4, 2025
- Prototyping Materials for High School Game Design Class - Dec 29, 2024
- Money That Folds For Financial Literacy - Oct 7, 2024
- Whiteboard Wallpaper for Students Practicing Algorithms - Dec 2, 2024
- Color Photos for Mental Health Community Service Campaign - Oct 25, 2024
- Money That Folds For Financial Literacy - Oct 7, 2024
- Micro-Kitchen Enablement for Engineering Students - Jun 19, 2024
- Pair-Programming is Powerful - May 6, 2024
- Charged Batteries and Organized Tools - Feb 20, 2024
- DIY Enablement for Robotics/Electronic Music Classroom - Feb 7, 2024
- Filament To Make 3D Printing Dreams Reality - Feb 7, 2024
- Classroom Accessibility Upgrade - Sep 22, 2023
- Binders for Student Engineering Portfolios - Sep 20, 2023
- Snack Rewards for Computer Science Work Habits - May 16, 2023
- Bass Guitar for H.S. Electronic Music Studio - Feb 17, 2023
- Digital Video and Laser Engraving Enablement for H.S. Computing Classroom - Jan 13, 2023
- Presentation Kit for Computer Science Students - Jan 13, 2023
- New Projector for H.S. Computer Science Classroom - Dec 12, 2022
- Power Up! Plugs and Chargers for Computer Science Classroom. - Dec 12, 2022
- Competitive Robotics Basics Power Up Our Team! - Dec 5, 2022
- Accessible Computing Classroom - Nov 29, 2022
- Unlock Dark Mode for H.S. Computer Scientists! - Sep 28, 2022
- Electronic Instruments for Computer Science Classroom - Sep 27, 2022
About Prop 13
For the last ~50 years, California’s Proposition 13 has allowed California residents with inherited homes (and businesses with privately owned commercial properties) to contribute fewer tax dollars to the state. As a result, education funding in California is significantly privatizated: Wealthier, property-owning Californians have more money to fund their own neighborhood public schools (or private schools), but schools without access to private funds simply have less money for facilities, field trips, teacher salaries, etc. Businesses paying fewer state taxes can easily choose to keep their money, and not support California schools at all.
The disparity that California students experience as a result of this tax structure is known as education inequality. This is why DonorsChoose is so vital for California students and teachers in low-income areas.
*The time that W. Kamau Bell won $1M on Celebrity Jeopardy
DonorsChoose board member W. Kamau Bell won Celebrity Jeopardy! on April 23, 2025 – and used some of the $1M prize to sponsor ALL of the posted projects from teachers in the the Oakland Unified School District AND in Mobile, Alabama, where his dad lives. He also applied some of the prize money to match donations made to projects in the cities where he does stand-up comedy – like Chicago, Illinois, and Bloomington, Indiana. In his own words:
“…the million dollars I won will support America’s public school children. I played for the organization DonorsChoose, where public school teachers and administrators raise money to pay for school supplies, musical instruments, field trips, and other things that should be paid for by the government! I have talked about how awesome DonorsChoose is many, many times here, so you can only imagine how happy I am to be able to help them get so much money for the school children of America. From now on, I’m the Secretary of Education! If Trump’s choice, Linda McMahon, wants the title back, she can fight me for it. After all, as the former C.E.O. of World Wrestling Entertainment, Linda has way more experience fighting than she does educating.”
You can watch this video to see the pivotal moments of his win.