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Go Wireless

My drama students need 2 Wireless VHF Lapel & Headset Mic Kits.

  • $610 goal

This project expired on November 29, 2009.

This project expired on November 29, 2009.

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Mrs. Schwartz PS 41 Francis White
Brooklyn, NY Grades 6-8

I am the Arts Director of a Title 1 PreK to 8 Public School located in the historically under-served area NY. Over 92% of our students receive one or more free meals. As a recently designated School for the Arts, we have instituted a theater arts program where students write a story, choose one story to be produced as a play, write the script and produce the show in its entirety (with some professional guidance, of course). Unfortunately, the auditorium’s sound system is somewhat confining with only fixed microphones and stands.

Acting often requires the use of movement and location which can be impeded by handheld or fixed microphones. One of our scripts required a character to carry a box into a house while delivering his lines. The re-written scene was quite awkward when the character had to place the box on the table, walk up to the microphone to deliver his lines and then return and pick up the box and leave the stage. “Mobile” characterizations like these do not lend themselves to fixed location microphone performances.

This necessitates the need to obtain wireless lapel microphone systems that will allow our young actors and actresses the freedom to maximize their acting abilities. Two wireless microphone systems would “untie the hands” of our young actors and actresses.

Your generosity will add an immense new element to our theater arts program by enhancing creative freedom.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

20 students impacted
Mrs. Schwartz PS 41 Francis White Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

20 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Wireless VHF Lapel & Headset Mic Kit • SchoolOutfitters.com $219.99 2 $439.98

Materials cost

$439.98

Vendor shipping charges

 $44.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.60

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$500.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$109.76

Total project goal

$609.76

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