We are a project based school in San Diego (North County) and we are focused on driving student learning through real-world projects. For this project, students will be working with engineers from Engineers Without Borders (EWB) to address needs of families in Senegal who lack basic sanitation. We will be investigating how to design a basic sanitation system and how to teach people who have had no formal education to use that system and maintain it. There are many levels to this project, and we need funding for students to create their prototypes. They will pitch these prototypes to an engineer with EWB, and will have projects selected to move forward for production. These projects will hopefully add to the tools used by EWB in developing countries to provide simple solutions for sanitation. The money raised from this project will allow us to move beyond the design phase alone, and allow students to really build their prototypes in a meaningful way. 

My students are a highly diverse group, as our school is fully inclusive with special needs students to advanced in the same class at the same time. We design projects around our passions as a class, and students are tasked with developing meaningful products. To ensure that students of all financial abilities and all learning abilities have the opportunity to contribute in a meaningful way, we have a variety of phases to this project, including design, marketing, parts acquisition, and product development. Each phase requires funding, and our small classroom budgets do not leave room to really have students building working prototypes. 

Funding will contribute to every phase of this project, including:

• blueprint paper ($75.99 for 250 sheets)
• Total dissolved solids meter ($20.99, need 1)
• turbidity meter ($410.00, need 1)
• salinity meter ($88.80, need 1)
• dissolved oxygen meter ($164.16, need 1)

$760 total for these reusable parts

Materials for prototype design

• tubing ($3.11 for 10ft, need 10 of these)
• filters ($64.25, need two)
• water treatment chemicals (prices variable, budgeting approximately $200 for chemicals)
• pumps ($9.19 per pump, need 6)
• tanks to perform testing ($11.99 per tank, 6 tanks)
• materials students require to build prototypes (variable depending on prototypes, remaining budget goes to these). These will include valves, additional hoses, fittings, liners, 

$500 for materials listed above, plus an additional $700 for additional prototype parts not currently listed, as students must come up with them first!

Students will pitch a budget to the engineers for a prototype and ensure it fits within the typical funding basis for products created by Engineers Without Borders. We will be seeking matching funds from business donors, and supplementing with the classroom budget as necessary. 

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