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Coach Barnes from Nevada, MO is requesting sports & exercise equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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What's Pickleball?!

Help me give my students an opportunity to learn and play the growing, lifetime sport, pickleball.

  • $565 goal

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My Students

I teach Physical Education to middle school students in a low-income school district. Our students' ages range from 11-15 and they are grouped into class sizes anywhere from 25-60 students at a time in our single gym.

Our students enjoy coming to PE to burn off some energy and learn ways to be active inside and outside of the school.

We teach our students the healthy benefits of being active and physically fit. We accomplish this by exposing them to as many different activities as possible.

My Project

We want our students to stay active outside of our classroom/gym. We try to teach them many different games and sports so that they can find something they like and want to continue to play after they have had our class.

Pickleball is a fun and growing lifetime sport.

It is becoming popular in our community. However, a lot of our students have never heard of or played pickleball. We want to teach them the game and let them experience another game that is easy to learn and play outside of school.

Coach Barnes Nevada Middle School Grades 6-8

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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

500 students impacted 6donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Boulder Portable Badminton Net Set - for Tennis, Soccer Tennis, Pickleball, Kids Volleyball - Easy Setup Nylon Sports Net with Poles (Black/Yellow, 17 FT) • Amazon Business $69.99 4 $279.96
Coast Athletic Paddleball Paddles | Beach Paddleball Rackets | Racquets - 6 Pack • Amazon Business $35.10 3 $105.30
EasyTime Outdoor Pickleball Balls,24 Pack Pickleballs,Specifically Optimized Design Pickleball Balls, Flight Trajectory is Stable, High Elasticity, Orange for Outdoor Ball • Amazon Business $28.99 2 $57.98

Materials cost

$443.24

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.65

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$479.89

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$84.69

Total project goal

$564.58

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $564.58

5 Donors

-$277.44

Donations toward project cost

-$244.07

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.37

match offer

-$277.44

Match offer toward project cost

-$235.82

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.62

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$9.70

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 $0.00

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