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Mr. Whitehill from Tempe, AZ is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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It's Time to Light the Lights!

My students need freestanding LED lighting for our original theatrical productions.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Whitehill's classroom raised $547

This project is fully funded

My Students

My music classroom is a place where magic happens every day. Many of the standards I teach are realized in the form of musical theater. I write script, music, lyrics and orchestrations for two original shows a year. It is a fantastic tradition that always turn into more than the sum of its parts.

My students are performers.

My students are composers. My students are dancers. My students are musically literate. My students are higher level thinkers. My students will be music makers, music leaders, music appreciators and music advocates. This is how I propose to change the world. My school and it's staff provide a happy, active, safe place to learn and grow. Together, we try to provide them with as many opportunities for success as we can.

My Project

We produce high level original musical theater work twice a year. The gymnasium in which we perform has very outdated and mostly non functional theatrical lighting. The LED spotlight system I requested would solve this problem, and is also very economically priced. The students would be amply lit so our audiences of very proud families and community members can see them better and share in their talent and success.

It has been my dream to create musical theater to help students use the skills we are developing together for a practical, community building, and exciting purpose!

There is no budget money to fund this dream. This lighting will help to bring that dream to life even more vividly. This is how it will make a difference.

Mr. Whitehill Fuller Elementary School Grades 3-5

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.

Tempe, AZ View local requests

More than a third 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

600 students impacted 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
4Bar LED System • Woodwind and Brasswind $399.99 1 $399.99

Materials cost

$399.99

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$28.60

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$464.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$81.99

Total project goal

$546.58

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$546.58

3 Donors

-$521.58

Donations toward project cost

-$443.34

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$78.24

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

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$0.00

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