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Mr. Hoover from Indianapolis, IN is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Turn it Up! - Hi-Fidelity Listening Experiences

My students need a stereo system that can play music at an adequate volume level and with high fidelity from a variety of media (CDs, tapes, iPod, or computer.)

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My Students

How many of us have experienced the frustration of a CD player not working properly? Or tried watching a movie on a computer, and the speakers were not loud enough to enjoy it? Every day my students experience this when trying to listen to music or watch video clips in music class.

My students come from a wide variety of backgrounds, but they all share a love of music.

Kindergarten through eighth grade, they enjoy singing, playing instruments, dancing, and listening to music. Our school is a "Title 1" school, as we have a majority of students who receive free/reduced lunches. Our school is also an award-winning magnet school, recently recognized as a Magnet School of Excellence by Magnet Schools of America. As students at an International Baccalaureate school, our students are encouraged to be curious, ask questions, and become internationally-minded. In music class, my students enjoy learning about music from different cultures, and regularly demonstrate their open-mindedness by listening to and learning to appreciate a wide variety of musical styles. They are enthusiastic learners, and they deserve to have a better music listening experience with quality sound equipment when they come to music class!

My Project

The Sharp - 240W 5-Disc Compact Stereo/2-Way Speaker System will meet all of my students' music class listening needs with high fidelity! They'll be able to listen to classical music for analysis, folk music for dancing, and their own recordings (that they make in music class) for evaluation. The extra 25 feet of speaker wire will make it so that all of the 38 students in my 7/8th grade World Music class will be able to hear the music equally loud. The ability to connect a computer to this system will mean that when we watch music documentaries we'll have both adequate volume and good sound quality. It also will enable me to start using an mp3 player to play music for classes, eliminating the downtime of switching out Cd's and finding the right track to play for the class. By saving time, my classes will have more time to engage in different music learning activities.

Your donation to this project will make a huge difference in how my students are able to enjoy listening to music in music class.

No longer will they have to wait and see if the CD player is going to work today. No longer will they have to strain to hear the music being played from my computer on its tinny computer speakers. Valuable instructional that was lost due to "technical difficulties" will be regained, allowing us to maximize the learning that takes place in each music class.

Mr. Hoover Center for Inquiry at School 2 Grades 3-5

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Indianapolis, IN View local requests 345 students impacted 12donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sharp - 240W 5-Disc Compact Stereo/2-Way Speaker System • Best Buy $173.52 1 $173.52
C2G Velocity speaker cable - 25 ft • Best Buy $26.51 1 $26.51

Materials cost

$200.03

Vendor shipping charges

 $12.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$245.03

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$43.24

Total project goal

$288.27

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $288.27

9 Donors

-$123.55

Donations toward project cost

-$106.14

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.41

Matching donations from our partners

-$163.41

Match offers toward project cost

-$138.90

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.51

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.32

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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