When I was a little kid, my father took me to his laboratory at his job. I remember he did an assay for salt content. It involved titration with silver nitrate. It produced snow white silver chloride, after filtering he put the filter paper in the window sunlight, I stood there amazed as it slowly turned black.My name is Trevor Derksen and I'm the HS science teacher at St. David Unified School District in St. David, AZ. . My school has a old-school B & W darkroom that was used many years ago and then they stopped using it for whatever reason. I have submitted a request to the school administration, that I be allowed to create a course combining Chemistry, Art and Photography, as well as integrating STEAM into the course. Although I don't have a specific list yet, I was wondering how I go about requesting a donation of equipment and supplies or how do I go about applying for a grant to purchase what I need?
This will all probably happen next year, but I wanted to get a start on everything now.
Thank you for your time in considering this matter.
I'd suggest you start with a detail inventory of what's already in the darkroom, and what condition it's in. Once you have that, we can help decide what you still need, and what it's likely to cost to get it.
Fortunately, enlargers, trays, and daylight tanks are pretty durable, so if someone didn't just loot the place when the school closed it, it may not require much in the way of equipment, just chemistry and materials.
find out what you need and if I have any of it i will help as much as i can
Mitch
Welcome, Trevor!
I can't really advise you on grant writing proposals, or whom to send them to, but I would suggest that once you have an idea of what you need, you solict donations from people here on Photrio.
Myself, I have a few surplus darkroom items I would be happy to donate if your school administration approves your proposal.
What's the current condition and equipment in the darkroom?
How many students are you trying to accommodate?
You might want to find a few high school text books to see how film photography was taught, the equipment discussed, then as suggested make list of what you have then a list of you will need. You can check to see if any of the high schools in Tucson or the Phoenix metro are still teach darkroom, they might resources. Or see of the Community Colleges in your area teaches darkroom. The largest problem you will run into is providing your students with access to a decent 35mm camera.
Please put your location in your Profile, I wasted my time reading this post to find where you live.
Ian
Do teach Caffenol (for the younger students) and how to safely, in class, compound both Parodinal, acid stop with white vinegar or Vitamin C, and basic fixer with pool supplies.
Cheers, I appreciate the correction very much.
It seems that I've conflated the two, for some time now, but have always used Citric acid, which I bought in small, bulk amounts from the "Home Economist," etc, as Vitamin C is just silly in price, or was, and in tabs, no powder.
Eli
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