{"id":6103,"date":"2011-01-27T08:05:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T16:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=6103"},"modified":"2011-01-27T08:05:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T16:05:49","slug":"thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/27\/thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we do our more-or-less annual <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2010\/10\/12\/donorschoose-challenge-2010\/\">Donors Choose drive<\/a>, we&#8217;re always pleasantly surprised at how many readers are willing to throw in a few bucks to help school kids in poor areas learn science.  So now we&#8217;re not asking for money &#8212; we&#8217;re just saying thanks.  (Of course there are always <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/search.html?max=50\">good projects<\/a> looking for donations.)  The best part of the process is the thank-you letters that trickle in from the classes that are helped.  Here are some pictures from a few of those classes, using their new materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/proposal.html?id=420629\">Ms. D&#8217;s classroom in Ohio<\/a> bought science fair supplies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2011\/01\/Annual-Spring-Science-Fair-Supplies-Classroom-Project-at-DonorsChoose.org-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"313\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6105\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2011\/01\/Annual-Spring-Science-Fair-Supplies-Classroom-Project-at-DonorsChoose.org_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"313\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6106\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/proposal.html?id=420629\">Mrs. P&#8217;s class in Texas<\/a> purchased a binding machine and plastic binding strips for use in repairing paperback books.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2011\/01\/Use-It-Up-Or-Use-It-Out-Classroom-Project-at-DonorsChoose.org_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"313\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6107\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/proposal.html?id=443552\">Mrs. L&#8217;s classroom in Texas<\/a> purchased thermometers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2011\/01\/hotorcold.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"313\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6108\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2011\/01\/hotorcold2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"312\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6109\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/proposal.html?id=403518\">Ms. M&#8217;s classroom in Nevada<\/a> bought &#8220;Fun Math Centers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2011\/01\/Fun-Math-Centers-Classroom-Project-at-DonorsChoose.org_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"314\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6104\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who donated.  You never know what kind of impact you may have had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we do our more-or-less annual Donors Choose drive, we&#8217;re always pleasantly surprised at how many readers are willing to throw in a few bucks to help school kids in poor areas learn science. So now we&#8217;re not asking for money &#8212; we&#8217;re just saying thanks. (Of course there are always good projects looking for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}