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Local Donors Choose projects

Following up on the "Where can I volunteer?" post, we were looking through the Donors Choose site for projects here in the Capital Region.

And it looks like there are a bunch of them.

There are currently...
+ 47 projects listed for Albany County
+ 10 for Rensselaer County
+ 4 for Saratoga County
+ 4 for Schenectady County.

Here's a clip from one of the local projects -- it's from a teacher at Tech Valley High in Troy:

We have been fortunate enough to receive funding for a large number of laptops for our students. Many kids are already fairly tech savvy and come up to me each day in art class, showing me stunningly beautiful photos they have taken, as well as projects that they have created using photoshop, illustrator, and other programs. The trouble is, we have no way to display them because our school does not have a large format printer! This is currently a serious bottle neck for us, and I know if supplied with a good printer, our digital art program will start to bud and bloom in the form of presentations, posters, and art shows for a variety of Media.

I have selected a large format Printer that can produce gallery quality photographs up to 13 x 19 inches. this will be the perfect size for displaying 40 students' artwork at a time for display at our school. It will enable all kinds of graphic design projects, and will also be available for all our teachers, including science and social studies, to use in creating final products for our wonderful new school.

The teacher is looking to raise $338.