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Mr. Schwemmer from Salt Lake City UT is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

String and Strum your Heart Away!

Help me give my students the chance to play and experience folklore music! With these stringed instruments, My students can learn mariachi, folk, flamenco, and calypso styles of playing - all with these guitar-like instruments. Let's have fun!

  • $740 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Our school is a Title I, inner-city school with a diverse population. A full 86% of our students are considered low-income. We are exploring new ways to use data to improve instruction and objectives, the learning environment, and student outcomes. Our pillars for success are commitment, perseverance, and honor. Students are pushed to excel, to achieve great things, and to stay focused on academic goals and pursuits. My students are thriving now on everything I expect them to do. Achieving something in music is performance-based. I have approximately 120 students in bands and orchestras.

My Project

We have a diverse set of students at Bryant Middle School. Diversity requires a wide range of learning styles. In music, there is so much variety as to what students can learn.

Guitar and ukulele playing has a diversity of sound - just like my students.

This project provides the missing pieces to create a mariachi band, folk music of the islands, and overall enjoyment of creating music.

Since students are practicing more at home than ever before, funding this project will provide skills for musicians to get better at playing instruments at a faster pace.

Mr. Schwemmer
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Guitarron with Bag • Woodwind and Brasswind $399.99 1 $399.99
CGS Student Classical Guitar • Woodwind and Brasswind $129.99 1 $129.99
Kala Learn To Play Ukulele Starter Kit • Woodwind and Brasswind $59.99 1 $59.99

Materials cost

$589.97

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.85

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$628.82

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$110.97

Total project goal

$739.79

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $739.79

4 Donors

-$666.32

Donations toward project cost

-$628.82

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$73.47

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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