Help me give my students a resource to learn balance, motor skills, perseverance, mastery, and to simply play!
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Hardrath's classroom raised $578
This project is fully funded
My Students
Our school is a cute k-12 situated between the idyllic Langell and Poe Valleys up against Bly Mountain. Despite the beauty of the surrounding area, as a measure of demography, 100% of the school receives free lunches due to the outstanding number who qualify every single year. Sometimes sports team participation, or even parent-teacher conference attendance, is limited because parents won't have the gas money to drive the rural distances to the school.
It is sad to see budding youth missing out on this great beauty around them, and the well-being that comes from being out in it, due to these conditions; I seek to change this in any way I can.
In my first years, I fundraised to install a 40' traverse wall for all students, helped instigate swim lessons for 3rd graders, worked to bring out a fleet of bicycles for 4-6th to learn bicycle skills and strider bikes for K-1! I have personally subsidized students entry into the local climbing gym, and have taken groups of students up local mountains to learn hiking, backpacking, survival, orienteering, and endurance skills. It is my personal passion to provide meaningful and lasting exposure to life skills for these kids.
My Project
Unicycles will become an integrated part of PE rotations and skills for both hybrid and full-time in-person students.
The lessons in motor skill, development of dynamic and static balance, and sense of play provided by the age old unicycle should be a part of every child's life.
At the very least, every child should have a safe chance to try their hand at unicycling.
These unicycles would be utilized alongside "strider" bikes for K-1, mountain bikes for 4th-6th grades, and skateboards for K-6 to provide yet another movement opportunity (and sense of challenge/mastery).
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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