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Ms. Epps from El Segundo CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Let's HEAR it for Orchestra!

Help me give my students a quality speaker system with the "High Definition Loudspeaker." This speaker will be used daily in rehearsal and it has the power to be used while the 50 students are rehearsing.

  • $1,099 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

When walking into my classroom you will see a group of highly motivated students. For my students, orchestra is often the main reason that they wake up in the morning and look forward to school.

My orchestra students have a wide variety of personalities, but every day they come together and perform the most beautiful music as an ensemble.

These students have taken tremendous ownership as the builders of our string program in the district. Together we have built a program that stems from 2nd grade through 12th grade.

My Project

Our orchestra class needs a loudspeaker to help us in daily rehearsals. While we love to be the loudest sound in the room, a loudspeaker would make a huge, positive impact on our rehearsals.

We will use the loud speaker for tuning time, for practice with a metronome and for listening activities with music recordings.

We also rehearse weekly on the stage in the auditorium. For these rehearsals we must transport all the chairs from our classroom to the stage. With the chair dolly we can easily move large stacks of chairs. This will make the set-up more efficient and thus we can spend more time practicing!

Ms. Epps
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
SRM450v3 1,000-Watt High-Definition Portable Powered Loudspeaker • Woodwind and Brasswind $499.99 1 $499.99
Flash Furniture Heavy Duty Metal Chiavari Stack Chair Dolly (XU-CH-DOL-GG) • Quill.com $158.39 2 $316.78

Materials cost

$816.77

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $74.73

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.25

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$933.75

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$164.78

Total project goal

$1,098.53

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,098.53

3 Donors

-$1,098.53

Donations toward project cost

-$933.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$164.78

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