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Mr. Schaller's classroom raised $6,223

Inchy the Bookworm Vending Machine

Help me give my students a book vending machine for Positive Behavior in school!

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Mr. Schaller
Grades 6-8

My Students

The tweens that attend my school are extraordinary students who love to read. Many of the students here are reading below grade level and are reluctant readers. Many of the sixth, seventh, and eighth graders do not have reading materials at home. By providing a book vending machine with diverse books, we can encourage kids to learn, grow, and accept one another! The demographics are diverse: twenty-five percent African American, seventy percent Hispanic, and a total of eighty-three percent are economically disadvantaged.

My Project

Hornet Nation is full of readers who we would love to reward with a trip to the book vending machine! This PBIS incentive will allow students to get a book of their choice and make reading fun, never a punishment!

Inchy’s Bookworm Vending Machine works by rewarding kids for good behavior, good grades, and good attendance.

With the combination of vending books and our own personalized reward system, this project could bridge the gap between literacy and engagement.

"Have you ever heard of a book vending machine? The Global Vending Group’s Inchy the Bookworm Vending Machines have been making quite the impact on schools across the country. Anytime a new book vending machine is installed, the local news stations are all over it. You might be asking yourself, Why all this publicity for just a vending machine? Well, it is more than just a vending machine that dispenses books. It works as a perfect PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports) reward system for any school looking to adopt a program of their own.

There are over twenty thousand schools nationwide in forty-four states currently implementing school-wide PBIS programs. With Inchy the Bookworm’s PBIS system, students are rewarded one of kind tokens which they use at the machine to choose a book of their choice. The school faculty rewards students with tokens for following the guidelines of their PBIS reward system. You can even implement your own reward system with this Book Vending Machine. The options are endless and the results show just how successful schools have been with using a PBIS program."

Please help us bring an Inchy to Hoffman Middle School and let us get diverse books into our children's hands in a fun way!

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

999 students impacted 18 donors
Mr. Schaller Grades 6-8

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

999 students impacted 18donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bookworm Vending Machine (2021 Version) • Global Vending Group $4,295.00 1 $4,295.00
Picture Book Tray • Global Vending Group $125.00 2 $250.00
Book Tokens • Global Vending Group $50.00 1 $50.00

Materials cost

$4,595.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $595.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$68.92

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$5,288.92

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$933.34

Total project goal

$6,222.26

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $6,222.26

11 Donors

-$3,924.00

Donations toward project cost

-$3,754.95

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$169.05

match offer

-$1,804.67

Match offer toward project cost

-$1,533.97

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$270.70

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$493.59

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