Ended Friday, December 1st, 2017 at 2:51 AM
Total Donation Goal $3,990 $2,220.00 Funded
This campaign has ended. If you made a donation, thank you.
About this Campaign
After another successful year last year, the String Project is
back again! Your gifts will help students purchase or rent an instrument and
method books.
The String Project is an after school program held twice a week at Park Middle School.
The program will take place both semesters of the 2017-18 school year. This
campaign helps support students who qualify for free and reduced lunch in
renting or purchasing an instrument and method books. The Glenn Korff School of
Music at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will provide other funding for this
project.
The project is a partnership between Lincoln Public Schools and UNL. Its core
mission is to provide low cost music instruction on a string instrument to
elementary students from throughout the community and to address the string
teacher shortage that has existed for some time in this country.
The UNL program addresses the shortage by giving college string students
(primarily music education majors) more hands-on training than they would
normally receive in their college career while providing third-grade students
in the Lincoln Public School system an opportunity to learn to play a string
instrument. Research has shown that students involved in music instruction do
better academically. There is also evidence it develops leadership skills,
character, self-discipline, and raises school attendance rates.