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Coach Cooper from Chattanooga TN is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Start-Up Wrestling With Singlets

Help me give my students a sport that will improve their mental abilities and social skills. I believe these items will help us start our program in the right direction based on our need to keep them safe.

  • $659 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

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

My students come from the edge of the inner city. The students hear the gunshots, feel the lose, feel the hunger, and feel the fear. The community sticks together to overcome these woes. This tight knit community makes it hard for the outsiders to come in, but when you do, you are hooked.

My students are high energy, guarded, and possess intelligence that many don't see.

I am constantly learning how to open the door to their wonderful skills. It is amazing to see their eyes open wide when they can connect the science to the application in life. Many see the disruptions and not the light. I believe the light can be found with the right tools.

My Project

My focus with this project is to connect my students' wonderful intelligence to wrestling. I believe wrestling is a brain game that Dalewood students can use to enhance their life. Students of all shapes and sizes can learn to coordinate their physical and mental abilities to succeed at more than just sports.

This is our first year introducing the brain game of wrestling so we need to gear up.

We have borrowed this and borrowed that, but to sustain this endeavor we need our own equipment. The principal is kicking in, but our needs throughout our school is high. We NEED YOU! Please help us grab these wonderful minds though this athletic kinesthetic learning project.

Our wrestling team is held to high social standards which will further their learning experience. Ties will be worn on game day and no student will participate if they have a discipline problem that week. But, they will be encouraged and expected to wrestle the next week. So, also help us mold responsible intelligent thoughtful young men and women.

Coach Cooper
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
ASICS Men's Snap Down Wrestling Singlet, Navy/White, Medium • Amazon Business $47.49 3 $142.47
ASICS Men's Snap Down Wrestling Singlet, Navy/White, XX-Large • Amazon Business $48.00 2 $96.00
ASICS Men's Snap Down Wrestling Singlet (Navy/White), Large • Amazon Business $48.00 2 $96.00
ASICS Men's Snap Down Wrestling Singlet (Navy/White), Small • Amazon Business $48.00 2 $96.00
ASICS Men's Snap Down Wrestling Singlet, Navy/White, X-Large • Amazon Business $45.74 2 $91.48

Materials cost

$521.95

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$559.78

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$98.78

Total project goal

$658.56

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $658.56

7 Donors

-$658.56

Donations toward project cost

-$559.78

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$98.78

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 $0.00

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