Andrea Johnson/MDN Washington Elementary teachers Erin Zietz, Melissa Wedar, and Lori Nord shop for school supplies at Office Max on Tuesday evening.

Twenty teachers from Title I schools in Minot got to go on a shopping spree for their classrooms Tuesday evening at Office Max in Minot.

Office Max presented a $23,000 check to the Minot Public Schools from fundraising done at Office Max stores earlier this year. As part of the event, 20 teachers from Title I schools were nominated to receive gift cards and do some shopping for school supplies and other things needed in their classrooms. Title I schools receive federal funding based on the percentage of students eligible for free and reduced price school lunches. In Minot, those schools are Bell, Dakota, Lewis and Clark, Longfellow, McKinley, Roosevelt, Sunnyside and Washington Elementaries and Jim Hill Middle School.

Teachers said they would be looking for extra school supplies to give kids who have run out.

Other items on the list are fun, “extra” things to have in their classrooms that teachers might not normally buy for their classrooms, such as a mini personal laminator.

Erin Zietz, a fourth-grade teacher at Washington Elementary, and Washington kindergarten teachers Melissa Wedar and Lori Nord, were also looking for headphones to use in their classrooms.

They said shopping is a lot of fun and Zietz said it was nice for the teachers to be “treated” a little bit.

Roxy Schumann, the general manager at Office Max in Minot, said the Minot store alone raised $6,000 for the Minot Public Schools. People who shopped at the Minot store during the back to school shopping event all contributed to the donation, said Schumann.

Office Max and Office Depot stores across the country participated in donation drives and raised nearly $2.2 million for 70 Title I schools across the country.