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Local TV News brought to you by 6th grade Journalists!

Help me give my students the opportunity to work with professional TV producers to create our own weekly TV newscast, which will be broadcast from Oct. to May on our local cable channel!

  • $1,230 goal

This project expired on April 4, 2026.

This project expired on April 4, 2026.

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Ms. Brown Edgecomb Eddy Elementary School
Edgecomb, ME Grades 3-5

My Project

What tech-savvy middle-schooler doesn't secretly dream of meeting their favorite media influencers? With the skills they are learning from local professional TV producers, our students are on their way to becoming journalists and content creators in their own right!

In this Media Literacy Class, students will experience all aspects of producing a genuine news program -- from setting up and operating the equipment, to researching and interviewing, to writing copy, to directing multi-camera shots, to delivering the reports on camera -- for a genuine television audience!

Our show, called "The Eddy Edge!", will be broadcast on the TV station's web page and YouTube channel, available for the public to view. Besides all of the hands-on experience, other impactful lessons will be in analyzing and evaluating the potentially misleading media messages that bombard us daily. Learning how news is gathered and delivered will improve critical thinking skills as students become informed consumers, creators, and citizens.

The director of our local cable access TV station is so enthusiastic about this project, he had the faith to start lessons with us, before any funding had even been secured. Please help us keep our promise to reciprocate! As I watched the students during our first session, timidly handling the expensive apparatus, experimenting with camera angles, and asking simplistic interview questions, my mind overflowed with immediately applicable lesson ideas! What a unique opportunity to engage students in real-life reading, writing, social studies, and science! When students are given an authentic purpose, their energy and motivation are electrified! With your help, our youth will be empowered to become the next generation of ethical, responsible, aware, and passionate "Guardians of the First Amendment!" Thank you for your generosity to this rare and worthy endeavor.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Half of students from low‑income households

30 students impacted
Ms. Brown Edgecomb Eddy Elementary School Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Edgecomb, ME View local requests

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

30 students impacted

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Larry Sidelinger of Lincoln County TV $1,000.00

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$1,000.00

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$15.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,045.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$184.41

Total project goal

$1,229.41

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