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Donor website helps teachers raise money
Wauka teacher receives donations for gadgets to help her students
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Students in Laney Park’s class at Wauka Mountain Multiple Intelligences Academy play with ThinkPad tablets and iPod Touches. - photo by SHANNAN FINKE
In an age when technology is king, teacher Laney Park is working to ensure her students don’t go without the latest and greatest gadgets in their quest for knowledge. Through the online charity DonorsChoose.org, Park received enough donations to buy a Lenovo ThinkPad and two iPod Touches with cases for daily use in her second-grade classroom at Wauka Mountain Multiple Intelligences Academy in Gainesville. After writing what Park described as “mini grants,” DonorsChoose.org posted her requests to its website where donors could contribute to her projects.