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Mr. Goodin from Porterville CA is requesting sports & exercise equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Practice Practice Practice

Help me give my students the baseball equipment they need to be the best prepared team around.

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  • $206 still needed

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

Wiffle balls help you develop a feel for timing and get you swinging aggressively. These are the skills that our school baseball team needs. Perfecting that timing and becoming more aggressive when swinging through the weighted baseballs also helps perfect a swing.

Hand-eye coordination, an aggressive approach, and seeing the ball at an early age are all major skills needed to be the best hitters we can be.

All the talk about launch angle and bat speed doesn’t matter to a kid. Kids need to start out just swinging away and making contact.

If the first bat you ever pick up is a heavier wood or metal bat, it’s going to be very difficult understand how to move your body and how to make contact. Wiffle ball helps you develop a feel for timing and gets you swinging aggressively. The bat is so light (and long) that there’s no reason you can’t get around on just about any speed of pitch.

Mr. Goodin
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
SKLZ Impact Limited-Flight Practice Baseball, Softball, and Mini Balls • Amazon Business $15.99 3 $47.97
GoSports Weighted Training Balls - Hitting & Pitching Training for All Skill Levels - Improve Power and Mechanics, Choose Baseball or Softball • Amazon Business $15.21 2 $30.42
GoSports Mini Foam Baseballs for Pitching Machines and Batting Accuracy Training - 20 or 50 Pack • Amazon Business $26.42 1 $26.42
SKLZ Impact Limited-Flight Practice Baseball, Softball, and Mini Balls • Amazon Business $12.99 2 $25.98

Materials cost

$130.79

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $11.97

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.96

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$174.72

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$30.83

Total project goal

$205.55

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $205.55

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 $205.55

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