2025: Science in Texas and Montana

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Tuesday December 09, 2025 · 7:13 PM PST

2025/12/09 · 19:13

This week, we’re helping two classrooms get materials they need for a variety of science investigations: a Texas first grade, and a Montana sixth grade in the Blackfeet Nation. We hope that readers who support quality public school education will help by sharing or supporting our featured projects.

The Inoculation Project is an ongoing, volunteer effort to crowdfund science, math, and literacy projects for public schools in low-income neighborhoods. As always, our conduit is DonorsChoose, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation that facilitates tax-deductible donations to specific, vetted projects in public schools.

Inoculation Project lower banner with Neil Degrasse Tyson quote, with caption.

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Saturday December 06, 2025 · 5:45 PM PST

2025/12/06 · 17:45

In our new success list diary, The Inoculation Project (TIP) will track science and math projects #1201+ that have been fully funded through DonorsChoose after being featured by our group and supported by Daily Kos readers.

Our regular TIP diary will post at 9:00am CT on Sunday with our currently featured projects, which can always be found on TIP’s blog page.

About TIP: Founded in 2009, The Inoculation Project is an ongoing, volunteer effort to crowdfund science, math, and literacy projects for public schools in low-income neighborhoods.

We focus on those schools because, as How Unequal School Funding Punishes Poor Kids points out,

About four in 10 students attend schools in districts with poverty rates of upwards of 75 percent, which perpetuates the structural poverty that keeps families trapped in poor communities with impoverished schools.

Underfunding education doesn’t just leave the most vulnerable children ill-prepared for the world, it makes the world a crueler and more divided place to grow up in.

As always, our conduit is DonorsChoose, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation that facilitates tax-deductible donations to specific, vetted projects in public schools.

Quote from Mae Jemison, first black woman astronaut: We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations. — Mae Jemison, the first Black female astronaut

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Sunday November 30, 2025 · 7:00 AM PST

2025/11/30 · 07:00

Banner for The Inoculation Project series, with added caption "Solid science education is the best inoculation against ignorance."

This week, we’re helping a kindergarten in a Texas border town get some computer-based learning games, and a 6th grade on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana get supplies for science projects. We hope that readers who support quality public school education will help by sharing or supporting our featured projects.

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