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  • Ace Amandla Charter School
  • Chicago, IL
  • 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

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Over the last couple years, there has been a lot of change at our school. We have seen a decline in budget coming to our school from Chicago, and therefore, have lost places for our Physical Education classes and after school activities to use on a daily basis. Because of this, we have also lost a lot of our regular equipment for proper Physical Fitness. The other Physical Education Instructor and myself, have decided it's time for a revamp of our fitness programs at school, and starting small and working our way back up to a great fitness center and program at our school. As we spend time looking to see what we needed, our goal was to start with basic equipment and begin building our fitness center up. With the help of this equipment, a lot can change with our schools fitness programs, and students after school programs. To start, this helps us with our Physical Education classrooms. With this equipment, we will have the ability to expand the exercises we can use inside the classroom for our students on our fitness days in class. With the dumbbells and benches, we now have the power to build up strength passed simple body weight resistance and more on strength training. Along with our classes, this equipment will allow our after school programs to grow and flourish. To start, it will help with our sporting teams with conditioning for their seasons and events. Currently the training we have is only to keep fit, not strengthen for specific skills. With this equipment, we can start building a proper conditioning and training regiment for our teams. This equipment can also allow us to start clubs after school to better promote fitness and training.

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Over the last couple years, there has been a lot of change at our school. We have seen a decline in budget coming to our school from Chicago, and therefore, have lost places for our Physical Education classes and after school activities to use on a daily basis. Because of this, we have also lost a lot of our regular equipment for proper Physical Fitness. The other Physical Education Instructor and myself, have decided it's time for a revamp of our fitness programs at school, and starting small and working our way back up to a great fitness center and program at our school. As we spend time looking to see what we needed, our goal was to start with basic equipment and begin building our fitness center up. With the help of this equipment, a lot can change with our schools fitness programs, and students after school programs. To start, this helps us with our Physical Education classrooms. With this equipment, we will have the ability to expand the exercises we can use inside the classroom for our students on our fitness days in class. With the dumbbells and benches, we now have the power to build up strength passed simple body weight resistance and more on strength training. Along with our classes, this equipment will allow our after school programs to grow and flourish. To start, it will help with our sporting teams with conditioning for their seasons and events. Currently the training we have is only to keep fit, not strengthen for specific skills. With this equipment, we can start building a proper conditioning and training regiment for our teams. This equipment can also allow us to start clubs after school to better promote fitness and training.

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