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Fairgrounds Middle Irish Team Fund

Mrs. Foran, Mrs. Giudici, Mrs. Kiley, Mrs. Borromeo,  Ms. Lessard and 98 awesome 7th grade students, make up the Irish Team at Fairgrounds Middle School, Nashua, NH.

The Irish team of Fairgrounds Middle School has been working since this summer to help launch Dreamporte (please watch the attached YouTube video)  in our classrooms, but now we need your help, please.

We are raising funds for Virtual Reality Sets:
$4,190 sponsors  a re-usable set of 20 VR (Virtual Reality) headsets and mobile phones:

Smartphones: $200 x 20 = $4,000

UPDATE VR Headsets:  revised on 10/24/16 to $190 (from $300), so we have deducted $110 from the original funding goal.   Smart shopping pays off! 

UPDATE Headphones revised on 11/02/16 to $0 (from $340): $17 x 20 = $340 has been changed to DonorsChoose because of a matching grant  opportunity by the Nashua School District.

These phones, headsets, and headphones are used together to create an immersive 3D experience.  Imagine this:

Want to learn about a place?  Go there.
Want to analyze the details of an artifact?  Hold it.
Want to hear what someone has to say?  Visit them.

With your help, now we can empower students do the next best thing. Through virtual reality, students will be able to travel to the streets of India to watch the celebration of Holi, while we study Hinduism. Perhaps they will visit the Parthenon and the Lincoln Memorial in order to explore the legacy of the ancient Greeks in our world today. If we are successful in raising the funds, when students say, “I wish we could go there”, we can!

In order to make this possible, we need the technology and the content that supports our curriculum. Enter Dreamporte, Fairgrounds Middle School, and you, our supporters:

Dreamporte is non-profit founded by Harvard students who are committed to shaping education through virtual reality. Dreamporte has used this new technology in several pilot programs (in Cambridge and Boston) to inspire students and provide enriching experiences that make the classroom a more engaging environment. Dreamporte is offering an organized library of virtual reality content, as well as the technology, to bring virtual reality to our classroom.

At Dreamporte they say, “We want kids to love the world and dream big, so no one gets left behind.” Fairgrounds Middle takes Dreamporte’s saying to heart. We celebrate our ethnic and economic diversity: 23 languages are spoken in the homes of our Fairgrounds students, and, as a high poverty, inner-city school where almost 50% of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch, we seek ways to bring special opportunities to our students in order to motivate, teach and inspire them.

Our deadline is November 18th, just before Thanksgiving break. Perhaps you would consider making a donation in someone’s name (a teacher, a friend, a family member) who inspired you?
Your donation will make a world of difference to to our students. Thank you so much!  -The Irish Team

Organizer

Mary Coe Foran
Organizer
Nashua, NH

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