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Mr. VanWyk from Rahway, NJ is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mr. VanWyk's classroom raised $627

Check 1, 2. Power Up for Our Student Performers Mics

Help me give my students a powerful usb mic to improve their online musical presentations in this new environment.

This project expired on March 24, 2021.

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Mr. VanWyk Rahway High School
Rahway, NJ Grades 9-12

My Students

My students create a family at our school. We are a performing arts family (bands, choirs, strings, theatre, and dance) that support each other on the stage, in the classroom and beyond. We are a NJ high school, just outside NYC, servicing a multicultural population of students from varying socioeconomic backgrounds. We strongly believe that the arts can instill positive change, transform, inspire, and change lives.

The Music program is a powerful unifier in our school.

We are going to build this program over a strong foundation and proud history and generations of art students.

My Project

This project provides my teaching with needed tools for distance learning. My students are extremely motivated. They are eager and love creating music together.

This crisis has shown the importance of technology.

Those student that do not have access are left behind. I will not let that happen to my students.

These USB microphones will be used by our students in their homes while we are distance learning. They provide superior sound quality than the microphone attached to a chromebook. As we produce and prepare material moving forward, we will shuffle these microphones to assist our students in recording their projects. These tools will motivate my students to explore, refine and create independently through powerful, colorful and efficient content. And all of these tools will be used by students in our music technology lab once we return to school for producing new content.

"To teach a person to learn to grow independently is perhaps the greatest service that one can do another. " Benjamin Jowett.

In the music classroom, technology is part of the content. My students need access to technology in order to keep them current and competitive.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

120 students impacted 18 donors
Mr. VanWyk Rahway High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Rahway, NJ View local requests

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

120 students impacted 18donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Blue Microphones Snowball ICE microphone • CDW-G $49.49 10 $494.90

Materials cost

$494.90

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.42

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$532.32

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$93.94

Total project goal

$626.26

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $626.26

12 Donors

-$457.12

Donations toward project cost

-$420.97

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$36.15

Matching donations from our partners

-$131.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$111.35

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.65

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$38.14

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 $0.00

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