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Mr. Ramirez from Las Vegas, NV is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Sound Upgrade Extravaganza!

Help me give my students an upgraded performance speaker and a recording interface for our after school club.

  • $949 goal

This project expired on June 30, 2024.

This project expired on June 30, 2024.

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My Project

Our Las Vegas, Nevada students are looking to upgrade their live sound equipment for school performances, assemblies, and concerts. We are also trying to kick start recording technology during our after school music club and would really benefit from a recording interface for music production.

Our current sound equipment is ready for retirement, at times unreliable and some of the components have stopped working altogether.

A Bose S1 Pro speaker would allow our performing groups to set up in a snap and could provide our audiences with high tech clarity of our music.

We are also in the process of kick starting recording technology in our after school music club. We currently use BandLab, which is a free cloud based recoding application but it comes with limits, and sometimes latency which makes it difficult to record at times. Having a dedicated interface with its own software would allow us to record with greater ease and very little computer latency.

Mr. Ramirez West Preparatory School Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Las Vegas, NV View local requests

Nearly all 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

180 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bose S1 Pro Multi-Position Powered PA System With Battery • Woodwind and Brasswind $499.00 1 $499.00
PreSonus Studio 68c USB-C 6x6 Audio/MIDI Interface • Woodwind and Brasswind $229.99 1 $229.99
Bose - S1 Pro Slip Cover - Black • Best Buy Education $35.99 1 $35.99

Materials cost

$764.98

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.47

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$806.45

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$142.31

Total project goal

$948.76

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