Sorry for the long ramble. Tldr: I won a scholarship for a $600 review course for my AP Stats class that I very much didn't expect to win and wanted to share it with others who would get how excited I am.

I teach AP Stats at a smaller school district (compared to the area). I'm the only teacher for all the subjects that I teach at my school, so it has been difficult for the past year and a half trying to get things going and figuring out how to teach everything. This is my first school, and honestly sometimes it feels like I'm being told to just go out and perform miracles with no support.

I was fortunate enough for the teacher in my position before me to have left me some suggestions on places to look for curriculum. One of them has a review course that, if their Facebook group of other teachers is to be believed, can really help students succeed on the AP exam. The biggest issue though is that it costs $30 per student.

Last year I offered to purchase the course for the 3 students I had that were taking the exam (only 9 kids total in my class and only those three were taking the actual exam in May). This year though, I was fortunate to have a full classroom of 20 students where all but two of them are taking the AP exam. At $30 a pop, that's $600 dollars and there's no way I'd be spending that kind of money.

I talked to my department head and the admin team and they all told me that there was no money left in the budget this year. We had bought new calculators which we had desperately needed. Luckily, the curriculum group had a scholarship application for the review course. I applied, but halfway through the application there was a blurb about them wanting to make sure low socioeconomic students and minority students were prioritized for the scholarship. Two of the questions were about how many of my students fit those descriptions, and I figured I wouldn't get it. While the school itself is fairly diverse (compared to the rural school I grew up in at least), only 3 of my students are low SE, and less than half of my students count for the minority groups they asked about.

Fast forward about a month, and last night I got an email saying I won a full scholarship for the review course! All of my students will be able to get an account and for free! I was so excited I started screaming and rambling to my partner about how excited I am. I have absolutely no clue why on earth they chose to select my class, but I am so grateful! This is going to help out my students so much and I'm so excited to see what all they are able to gain from having this access.