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The update now says all the Almost Home funding has been spent. I should mention that it seems Makerbot projects under the Visual Arts category still qualify for half off, but I'm rather disappointed with this news. This sure sounded like a much bigger opportunity than it looks like it's turning out to be. How many non Brooklyn schools were funded? A dozen?

I submitted my project less than 18 hours after the announcement, and proceeded to get about a dozen other teachers onboard. None of us would have taken the time to submit (and had the 2 "points" deducted from our accounts) had we known funding would be exhausted before our projects were even posted.

The right thing to do would be for DonorsChoose and MakerBot to at least fund the projects that were posted up through today, or at the bare minimum, add points back to our DonorsChoose accounts so we can run more projects in the future.

I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but it's now seeming like I've wasted a lot of teachers' time and made myself look foolish chasing something that was stated to be rather absolute, yet turned out to be nothing more than marketing hype and a dream now lost.

The other thing that gets me is I saw even 2nd grade classes get funded. Not to say that teaching elementary school is any easier than teaching high school (it likely is not) but how many 2nd grade teachers do you know who can design in CAD and operate such a machine, and teach 6 year olds to do the same....