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Department |
Item |
Purpose |
Cost |
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Robotics Team |
Moose Mascot Costume |
Our Moose Costume is MIA!! Please help the Robotics Team replace it with a "muscle body" moose. Click here for a photo. |
$1100 still needed (many thanks to the donors who already contributed $290!) |
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Athletics |
Outdoor Scoreboard for Track Field |
Scorekeeping visibility for participants
and spectators |
$5,000 plus installation |
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Athletics |
Indoor portable scoreboard |
Scorekeeping visibility for participants
and spectators |
$1,700 |
|
Athletics |
Palm Pilot and Software for Athletic Trainer (Injury Tracking System) |
Palm pilot and software will enable
our trainer to track and record
information about injuries |
$500 |
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Athletics |
Team Uniforms |
Replace old uniforms |
$3,000 |
|
Athletics |
Tennis Ball Machine, with charger, cover, and remote control |
Help our Boys' and Girls' tennis teams practice and improve their skills with a new ball machine that will throw balls throughout the court with varying speeds, spins, & trajectories. |
$2,000 |
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Performing Arts |
Complete Funding of Green Room Curtains |
Replace curtains in the green room of the Art Center/Theater; 50% of purchase price was funded in 2008-09 (ie. $1,000); additional $1,000 required |
$500
(many thanks to the families who donated $1000 towards the curtains last year) |
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Performing Arts |
Free Standing Marker Board for Scenic Arts Design |
Help the Scenic Arts Designers (i.e., set) plan the settings for our musicals and plays |
$270 |
|
Performing Arts |
Funding for Our Students to attend the "Music in the Parks" Competition |
Each year Westtown choral and instrumental ensembles attend a musical competition at an amusement park, organized by "Music in the Parks." Help to fund attendance of one or more students (fee for one student is $24 for the competition only; $24 for admission to the amusement park; and $10 for transportation). |
$58 per student |
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Performing Arts |
Dinner for Performing Arts Students |
Let's give our performing arts students a wonderful dinner before or after shows! |
Donor's choice: you may donate "in kind" or donate cash in whatever amount you choose |
|
Performing Arts |
Trip to Philadelphia for a Show |
What better gift than to allow our performing arts students to see other artists in action?! |
Donor's choice: donate cash in whatever amount you choose |
|
Performing Arts |
Grand Piano Transporter (dolly) |
To safely move the piano in the South Room as needed (don't worry, it will still reside mainly in the South Room!) |
$500 |
|
Performing Arts |
Move & Store-It Carts for Risers (6 desired) |
To store and move safely collapsible risers of varying heights |
$780 for 1
$4,680 for 6 |
|
Performing Arts |
Digital Pianos (2 more desired) |
Please help us replace the old upright pianos. Digital pianos never need tuning and require relatively little maintenance. Westtown's Upper School Parent Council Performing Arts Boosters has already paid for 2 of the 4 the Performing Arts Department would like to have. |
$1500 each |
|
Fine Arts (Upper and Middle Schools) |
Clay Extruder & Die Set |
A clay extruder is like a huge cookie press mounted to a wall or table. It allows artist to make coils, straps, and all kinds of other shapes that are particularly useful for sculptors or hand-builders. The model the Fine Arts Department would like to purchase is virtually indestructible and would be useful for both the Middle School and Upper School clay programs. |
$500
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|
Middle School |
Waterproof Boots for Stream and Swamp Studies |
Middle School wants to have 30 pair of boots in various sizes on hand for science classes to use when they do stream or swamp studies. Protect the children's feet & save the parents from having to replace their sneakers! |
Thanks to 2 parents and the Middle School Parent Council, the Middle School is able to purchase all the boots needed to keep your children's feet warm and dry! |
|
Middle School |
Portable speakers for use with MP3 players in classrooms |
In middle school classes, the faculty often use music. For example, The Secret Life of Bees, taught in 8th grade English, frequently refers to music (Sam Cooke, Miles Davis, Elvis, gospel). In class the students listen to these artists to provide context and to discuss cultural synthesis and diverse influence. When learning about our sister school in Ghana, the students listen to Ghanian music. Up to now, the faculty have been carrying their own speakers back and forth from home -- it would be great to have a set of speakers dedicated to the middle school! |
$80 |
|
Middle School |
55" Wall mount wireless LCD flat screen TV for MS Lobby |
Connect to a laptop and tablet for instruction of larger groups of students for activities such as canoe trip safety talks, Shakespeare Festival workshops, grade-wide activities, 5th grade transition days; also useful for Parent Council meetings, etc. |
$3,000 - $4,000 |
|
Middle School |
8 Kenmore Sewing Machines |
To replace old, unreliable machines used for home economics class, costuming, Shakespeare Festival workshops and more. |
Purchased! Thanks very much donors!!
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|
Middle School |
Pull-down World Maps for Middle Eastern and US History Classrooms (2 maps) |
To be used as teaching aids for both subjects - to replace existing maps. |
$500 for 1
$1,000 for 2 |
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Middle School |
Board and Card Games for Spanish Class |
Profe Juan Fernández would love to have Spanish versions of several popular games to supplement, in a super fun way, the activities that help his students learn and develop their Spanish! For more information about the games Profe. Juan would like to have, please read his Letter to Santa. If you would like to donate any of these games "in kind," please do so through Carol Trask, so she can ensure you receive an appropriate acknowledgment for your tax records. |
No longer available -- Thank you donors!
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|
Lower School |
Dishwasher for Primary Wing |
In the primary grades, children do a lot of cooking and baking. While students take responsibility for washing their own plates and cups, LS would love to have a dishwasher for hotter washing -- the students could continue to rinse, stack and empty the dishwasher! |
$420 for
Bosch
Energy Star |
|
Lower School |
6' Peace Pole (see peacepoles.com)
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Peace Pole in Western Red Cedar with "May Peace Prevail on Earth" sandblasted on each of the four sides in English, Spanish, Lenni Lenape, and Sign Language (learned in LS through music class). The Peace Pole reminds us to keep peace ever present in our minds.
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Not available! Thanks to a generous family, we can purchase the Peace Pole! Thank you very much!!
Look for the Peace Pole outside the Lower School |
|
Lower School |
Gaga Court
|
A gaga court would be an addition to the Lower School playground. It is essentially an octagonal base, with an all-weather rubber floor, which serves as a "dodge ball" below the knees sort of activity. The kids love it! |
$2,550
($450 has been raised so far -- thank you!) |
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Upper School - Dining Room |
2 Double Belgian Waffle Makers |
Our students LOVE waffles!! Chef Ernie, Beth, Abby, and the rest of the dining room staff would love to give the students the opportunity to enjoy waffles more frequently. Each double iron can make up to 50 waffles per hour! |
NO LONGER AVAILABLE -- Thank you, Donors!!! |
|
Upper School |
Upright Vacuum for Balderston Dorm |
Help the girls in Balderston keep their home clean! |
$250 |
|
Upper School |
Visible Spectrophotometer (2) |
A visible spectrophotometer is an analytical instrument used in Chemistry and Biology to observe electron behavior in molecules. The molecules absorb light from the instrument, allowing their electrons to jump in their atoms. By studying how much light the molecule can absorb, and gathering the data using the visible spectrophotometer, a student can find the concentration of a solution of colored ions, study the effects of bonding in organic molecules on light absorption (both Chemistry applications), or study chlorophyll molecules (which students do in Biology). |
No longer available! Many, many thanks to the donors who paid for the spectrophotometer! |
|
Upper School |
Yamaha Keyboard & Accessories for Physics |
Keyboards are useful when studying sound and waves to generate synthetic sounds and look at their spectra. Also very useful for the "Physics of Sound" class |
Not available! Thanks to a generous family, we can purchase the keyboard & accessories! Thank you very much!! |
|
Upper School |
Book Presses (2) |
Book presses are used for papermaking in the Art Department |
$280 for 1
$560 for 2 |
|
Upper School |
Raspberry plants for the mini-farm (200) |
Help the mini-farm grow delicious fruit for our students |
Not available -- thanks to generous family, we can purchase the raspberry plants! Thank you very much! |
|
Upper School |
10 broadforks |
The mini-farm would love 10 broadforks to aerate the soil without damaging the soil structure or mixing layers |
$200 each
$1,800 for 9
(We have payment for 1 already -- thank you donors!) |
|
Upper School |
10 stirrup hoes |
Stirrup hoes cut through tough weeds just below the soil surface to making weeding fast and efficient. Help improve the efficiency of the mini-farm. |
$55 for one
or
$330 for 6
(We have payment for 4 hoes already! Thank you donors!) |
|
Upper School |
Wood for raised beds in the mini-farm |
The mini-farm would like to create 10 5' x 20' raised beds for growing fruits and vegetables |
$250 each
$2500 for 10 |
|
Upper School |
Digital Multimeters (10 desired) |
A digital multimeter (DMM) is an electronic measuring instrument that combines several measurement functions in one unit (e.g., voltage, current, resistance). DMMs are heavily used in the study of electricity and the science department would like to replace the various older and limited use models with 10 new DMMs. |
SOLD -- THANK YOU DONORS!! We are thrilled that we can purchase all 10 multimeters! |
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Upper School |
Ohaus Dial-o-Gram Beam Balances (8 total) |
Beam balances are used for measuring gravitational and magnetic forces in the lab. The science department would like to replace the older beam balances currently being used with 2 new 2610g capacity balances and 6 new 619g balances. |
$225 for 1
$1,125 for 5
(We have payment for 3 beam balance already! Thank you donors!)
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Upper School |
Energy Audits for Faculty Homes on Campus |
A home energy audit assesses the energy usage of a home, pinpoints where and how a home is losing energy, and evaluates measures that can be taken to make the home more energy efficient (and thereby save money on energy costs). Help us evaluate the faculty homes on campus. |
An energy audit for each faculty home will range $300 and $600, depending on the size of the homes. All homes can be evaluated for $11,000. |