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Mr. Pisacreta from Barnwell, SC is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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BOOMWHACKED Middle Schoolers!!!

My students need musical instruments in the music classroom that they can use to help create their own songs. Boomwhackers are durable and great for song creation!

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Pisacreta's classroom raised $465

This project is fully funded

My Students

What do you mean you have no instruments? This is Music Class! How would you like to answer that question to over 400 students every year? I have been doing this for over 5 years now and have decided to do something about it....ask for help. My students love music and I want more for them.

My students are an energetic bunch of 7th and 8th grade students in a very rural school district in South Carolina.

They love to be active and to sing in Music Class. My school does everything it can to provide for our students, but with limited funds and resources, it cannot buy much for the music program. My principal would like to do more, but I would love to find alternative ways to funding the instruments my students need for classroom instruction.

My Project

My students will use the Boomwhackers and accessories that come along with them to create short songs and rhythms to accompany song lyrics they have written. They will create music exercises using patterns on the Boomwhackers. They will also use the Boomwhackers to make patterns to help them memorize important content information from all content areas.

My students are always wanting to play on instruments in my room.

I inherited a Music Room with absolutely NO INSTRUMENTS other than the upright piano that was desperately out of tune. I would absolutely love to have an instrument of some kind to be able to use to vary my instruction.

Mr. Pisacreta Guinyard - Butler Middle School Grades 6-8

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Barnwell, SC 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

420 students impacted 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Complete Upper & Lower Octave Sets Boomwhackers Tuned Percussion Tubes • Woodwind and Brasswind $89.99 3 $269.97
Boomophone XTS Whack Pack • Woodwind and Brasswind $49.98 1 $49.98
Octavator Caps 8-Pack • Woodwind and Brasswind $7.99 2 $15.98

Materials cost

$335.93

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$23.68

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.04

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$394.65

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$69.64

Total project goal

$464.29

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$464.29

2 Donors

-$105.00

Donations toward project cost

-$105.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Matching donations from our partners

-$340.76

Match offers toward project cost

-$289.65

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$51.11

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$18.53

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$0.00

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