Funding Education with the Blockchain, Update Post #3: Final Totals for Volume 2!

Hi everyone!

Thank you to everyone who contributed to last week's volume of Funding Education with the Blockchain! The post paid out today, so I've gone ahead and made a donation on behalf of the STEEM blockchain!

The great thing is that in the time this post was in its payout period, two of the projects I had listed, including the main one with iPads, got funded! The books project also received full funding, so I was able to apply the money raised via this post to the third project I mentioned, which needed hands-on materials like Legos and Magna-tiles!

Unfortunately, since the project still needed over $400, we weren't able to bring it to completion, but we were able to make a significant donation of $90!

Here's how we got to $90:

• The payout from the original post: 11.256 SBD + 2.808 SP. I converted the SBD to STEEM on the internal market and added the SP amount to get a total of 16.004 STEEM!
• @carlgnash made a generous 10 STEEM liquid donation
• @nadtinkoff made a generous 1 SBD donation
• Grand total of 27.174 STEEM, which I rounded up to 30!

Then, it was just a matter of converting it to fiat and making the donation on DonorsChoose.org! Here's how that went:

• 30 STEEM transfer to blocktrades for LTC conversion
• LTC deposit to my Coinbase wallet (0.47519898 LTC)
• Sold 0.47519898 LTC on Coinbase for $90:

• Made a $90 donation to the project on DonorsChoose.org. Here's the screenshot of the email confirmation:
  

You may also find a record of a donation in my name on the project page, where I referred to the Steemit post!

I know we probably could have gotten more, but with the timing, it seems STEEM has experienced a drop and LTC is off of its week high, so we couldn't get as much for the STEEM this time, but I wanted to go ahead and make the donation for transparency purposes.

Thank you again to everyone who voted, commented, and resteemed Volume 2 of this project! I plan to keep this initiative going, so keep an eye out for Volume 3 soon!

As an added bonus, I received thank you notes from my wife's class for the books and wobble stools we helped fund last month! I wanted to share some of the highlights with you, as they are very encouraging and made me smile!

Note: I had to scan these in, so there are a few parts that got cut off. I've also removed the children's names for privacy purposes.

Enjoy!

I hope you've enjoyed these notes from the children. I'll likely be receiving a thank you package from the project we donated to if it gets fully funded, so I'll be sure to share notes from that as well. Here's to hoping the project gets funded! If you'd still like to contribute, I encourage you to upvote this post or send a liquid donation. I'll likely feature this project in the next volume of this series.

Thank you again so much for your support of education on the local level. it means so much to the teachers and students who otherwise would not receive funds for these classroom materials. So far, the first two volumes of this series have generated over $515 that has been used for education! Let's keep up the good work.

You all have my sincerest gratitude.