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Mr. Rickard from Virginia Beach, VA is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Lights, Camera, Oh Wait, Where's The Camera??

Help me give my students high quality camcorder for our morning news broadcast.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Rickard's classroom raised $756

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My Project

Our 2nd and 3rd Graders conduct a live morning news broadcast to our school every morning. They give news updates, reminders of proper behavior in the cafeteria, a daily weather forecast, the Pledge of Allegiance and more. Our video mixer is like 6 years old and failing.

The primary symptoms of the failure is for all cameras to go black in the middle of announcements and we have to reboot.

The district has provided us with a new video mixer but one of the cameras is too old and is not compatible with the new mixer. We need a new camera before we can swap the systems out. We have one camera for the news anchors and one for the weather and guest speakers. That second camera is set for Green Screen and that is the camera that we can't get to work with the new system.

Mr. Rickard Newtown Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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 18donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Panasonic - HC-V785K Full HD Video Camera Camcorder with 20X Optical Zoom - Black • Best Buy Education $603.26 1 $603.26

Materials cost

$603.26

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.05

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$642.31

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$113.35

Total project goal

$755.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $755.66

15 Donors

-$652.61

Donations toward project cost

-$625.31

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.30

Matching donations from our partners

-$20.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$17.00

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$83.05

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 $0.00

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