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Ms. Sedalnick from Arvada, CO is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Progress You Can See: Swimming Team in Need of a Camcorder

My swimmers and divers need to be able to see how they are swimming and diving through the use of a camcorder, a camcorder battery, and a bag to carry it all in.

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

You can help be the catalyst for students to learn how to be competitive swimmers. Each year, high school students come out for my swimming and diving team who do not know anything about the sport. They are a mixture of freshman through seniors who mostly have not had the money to pay for swimming lessons earlier in their life. By the end of the season, they are competitive swimmers who not only have learned an important life skill, but who can have a sport that will keep them in shape for the rest of their lives.

The problem with students never having swum before, on a team that has not had a team for quite some time, is that at times our swimmers have a hard time understanding what it is that they are doing incorrectly. I can get into the pool to try to show them, but I would not be able to talk to the team while I am swimming.

By having a camcorder, the swimmers could be recorded while they are swimming so that I can talk to them as a team or one by one later as we watch the footage. Watching their strokes, swimmers will be able to better understand what it is that I am asking them to adjust in their strokes in order to make them more efficient, faster, successful swimmers.

Your help will not only make it possible for a group of students to learn the art of swimming, but it will give them a present to keep forever. They will have the gift of a life saving, healthy habit that they can carry around with them for the rest of their lives. An added bonus is that I will keep a separate DVD for each swimmer and diver that will show them performing at the beginning and end of each of their years on the high school swimming and diving team. During their senior awards banquet, I will show their first and last days of practice so they can view, with their family, truly how far they have come. The DVD will be given to each senior as a gift for their hard work and dedication.

Ms. Sedalnick Arvada K-8 School Grades 9-12

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At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

60 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sony Lcsx30 Camcorder Bag • Best Buy $39.99 1 $39.99
SONY DCRDVD108 40X OPTICAL DVD CAMCORDER -- Sony Camcorders; DVD Handycam • Quill Corporation $349.99 1 $349.99
Sony Camcorder Battery • Best Buy $48.99 1 $48.99

Materials cost

$438.97

Vendor shipping charges

 $43.90

Sales tax

 $12.73

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.97

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$524.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$115.02

Total project goal

$639.02

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $639.02

2 Donors

-$307.97

Donations toward project cost

-$261.77

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.20

match offer

-$308.51

Match offer toward project cost

-$252.98

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.53

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$11.26

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 $0.00

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