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Mr. Burgess from Summerville SC is requesting computers & tablets through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Sound Growth!

Help me give my students quality recording equipment for performances and for self-evaluation.

  • $614 goal

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This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

We have roughly 300 choral students in nine classes in a school with a little over 1,200 students, and we are growing rapidly! Students come from a variety of backgrounds and very varied demographics. Many are faced with challenges outside of the classroom that make what we do at the school crucial.

Many of these students need the character-based lessons that we tackle through music.

I know that it is all that many of them have that is stable and reliable. It has been echoed by student after student that chorus is a family and a much-needed one for many of them. These students deserve to have opportunities and experiences that we can provide that they might not otherwise have access to.

My Project

We are very excited about securing these recorders for our students. This will allow us to secure quality recordings for performances as well as for in-class recordings. These will enable students to be engaged, reflecting young artists even from home!

Our program has grown to include roughly 300 choral students who regularly give community performances, professional performances with symphony orchestras, and professional choirs and have been chosen to represent our school, district, and the community at the SCMEA state conference.

As a result, it requires our students to be masters of self-evaluation, goal-setting and implementing plans for growth as an ensemble. As singing is an artform we share through sound, students must get a more accurate sense of what we sound like to refine how we share that sound to enact positive change for our audience and these young musicians.

Mr. Burgess
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Zoom - H4N PRO Handy Recorder - All Black • Best Buy Education $226.31 2 $452.62

Materials cost

$452.62

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $31.91

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.79

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$521.32

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$92.00

Total project goal

$613.32

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $613.32

11 Donors

-$533.46

Donations toward project cost

-$463.94

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$69.52

match offer

-$67.50

Match offer toward project cost

-$57.38

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$10.12

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$12.35

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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