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  • Caze Elementary School
  • Evansville, IN
  • More than three‑quarters 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

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As the members of C3 will tell you, making great music is SUPER fun... but it isn't always easy! During our weekly rehearsals each student works to memorize every word and every note to every song in our repertoire, and we do all of this either by heading onto the floor to write on loose papers or by crowding around a projector screen to read as a group, often leading to student frustration, lost rehearsal time, and overall lack of confidence in performance abilities. The music our choir makes is joyous and vibrant, but with your help we could make much more music and share it with many more people. With just a few essential, reusable items our weekly rehearsals could be optimized, enabling us to learn more music at a faster and more reliable pace: instead of writing on carpet our students could write on clipboards; instead of holding loose (and crumpled) papers on stage our students could use uniform binders; instead of creatively "storing" our music in various parts of the music classroom we could dedicate an organized space to the choir. Many of these simple, yet impactful, items, like highlighters and pencils for marking music, give the C3 musicians the opportunity to prepare their music in rehearsal like professionals; while some of the other items, like student-designed choir t-shirts, name tags, a rolling cart for transporting music binders to and from concerts, and granola bars for these trips, afford them the chance to present themselves as professionally as they prepare. The C3 musicians have stories and passions worth sharing, and with your help these students can have the chance to do so in a way they can be incredibly proud of.

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As the members of C3 will tell you, making great music is SUPER fun... but it isn't always easy! During our weekly rehearsals each student works to memorize every word and every note to every song in our repertoire, and we do all of this either by heading onto the floor to write on loose papers or by crowding around a projector screen to read as a group, often leading to student frustration, lost rehearsal time, and overall lack of confidence in performance abilities. The music our choir makes is joyous and vibrant, but with your help we could make much more music and share it with many more people. With just a few essential, reusable items our weekly rehearsals could be optimized, enabling us to learn more music at a faster and more reliable pace: instead of writing on carpet our students could write on clipboards; instead of holding loose (and crumpled) papers on stage our students could use uniform binders; instead of creatively "storing" our music in various parts of the music classroom we could dedicate an organized space to the choir. Many of these simple, yet impactful, items, like highlighters and pencils for marking music, give the C3 musicians the opportunity to prepare their music in rehearsal like professionals; while some of the other items, like student-designed choir t-shirts, name tags, a rolling cart for transporting music binders to and from concerts, and granola bars for these trips, afford them the chance to present themselves as professionally as they prepare. The C3 musicians have stories and passions worth sharing, and with your help these students can have the chance to do so in a way they can be incredibly proud of.

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