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Mrs. King from Greenville, MO is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Turn it Up! Listen to the Music!

My students need a Bose SoundDock.

  • $414 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

How do you remember music class? Sitting cross-legged on the floor listening to a record player? Singing with the teacher who played the piano? Marveling at the cassette player with dual playing capabilities? Today's students have gone digital and we need your help to hear the music!

I teach in a rural school district and see nearly 450 students in Kindergarten through 6th grades.

Community members often feel isolated as they must drive 20 minutes to the nearest town to buy groceries and other necessities. The community offers no local fine arts performance opportunities or musical venues. Students must travel over an hour and a half for cultural events like concerts and art museums. For most students experiences with musical instruments, dance and composing come only at school.

My Project

We are thankful for our beautiful music room, but right now we are having difficulty hearing the music that we use for listening examples and to accompany our singing. Most music is stored digitally on the classroom computer and right now there are only computer speakers to project the sound. Occasionally music is burned to a CD to be used for performances, listening centers and other portable activities but the sound quality is poor and often the students have to sing quietly or stop singing to hear where they are in the song. Today's students rarely own records, tapes or CDs. Their music comes digitally via their phones and MP3 players and the music classroom is changing to keep up with the times. With your help we will add a Bose SoundDock to our classroom. The SoundDock will connect to a computer or MP3 player. This will allow us to experience music with amazing quality and most importantly will allow everyone to hear it

Will you partner with us to let the beauty of crystal clear music stream through our music room?

Your help will not only improve the sound quality of music in our classroom but will ignite students' imagination and love of music through vivid musical experiences.

Mrs. King
Grades 3-5
    More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

    This project will reach 380 students.

    10 donors have given to this project.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bose® SoundDock® Series II Digital Music System for Apple® iPod® - Black • Best Buy $299.99 1 $299.99

Materials cost

$299.99

Vendor shipping charges

 $12.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$351.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$62.03

Total project goal

$413.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $413.52

8 Donors

-$266.00

Donations toward project cost

-$235.10

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.90

match offer

-$136.93

Match offer toward project cost

-$116.39

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.54

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.59

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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