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Coach Hancock from Lubbock TX is requesting sports & exercise equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Pickleball, What's That?!?!

My students need equipment to play badminton, tennis, and pickle ball safely and successfully.

  • $491 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students at Honey are athletically talented, eager to learn new things, and always asking questions. Our school has a special education program which services kids at every grade level.

We also have an ELL other than Spanish program where we have seen PreK-5th grade children coming from China, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Korea, Russia, and many other countries.

We are a close knit school and have had success in integrating all these different types of learners into general education classrooms, library, art, music, and PE (That's me!!!)

My Project

I give our students 10-15 minutes of free choice every Friday. What I have found is that the older kids really like are striking sports like tennis and badminton. While I do have tennis rackets, they aren't safe in a small playing space because the kids can accidentally hit each other.

Foam lollipop paddles are a great alternative to rackets in limited space and would allow kids to play sports such as tennis, badminton, pickleball and ping pong without the fear of hurting someone with a hard racket.

Fingerlight balls have the perfect amount of bounce and slow, float like movement to help PreK/kinder children and special needs students be successful and gain confidence in racket sports.

My students thank you for your consideration.

Coach Hancock
Grades PreK-2

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
PADDLE LOLLIPOP SET OF 6 • School Specialty $43.94 5 $219.70
BALL FINGERLIGHT 10'' PAIR OF 2 • School Specialty $11.57 11 $127.27

Materials cost

$346.97

Vendor shipping charges

 $34.70

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.20

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$416.87

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$73.57

Total project goal

$490.44

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $490.44

1 Donor

-$245.22

Donations toward project cost

-$208.44

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$36.78

match offer

-$245.21

Match offer toward project cost

-$208.43

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$36.78

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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