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History of Our Project

On Friday 11/6/09 we are SKYPING with Mrs. Moore from Colorado
Little penny,
where have you been?
Who has held you,
traded you in?
In all the days since
you left the Mint,
Where in the world
have you been sent?

From Betsy Hunt (Lincoln School, RI)
One section of my sixth graders visited your penny page yesterday. They have decided to try to collect 1000 pennies to give to Storefront. We had a long discussion about how much 1000 pennies is -- how to write a million, billion and gulp, trillion. I challenged them to creating a document with 1000 dots. One student with initials DN did it in 27 seconds! Once we collect some pennies we will do the probability challenge. Once we get the wiki up and running we will post our homophone games. We are very excited about the wiki and this projects with Storefront.
From Adam Kenner (Horace Mann School, NY)
I love this project!!! A billion pennies!!! This just might work! You're trying to capture about 0.5% - 0.7% of all pennies currently in circulation! Click here,
From Deborah McLean (Head of Lower School, Poughkeepsie Day School)
We at Poughkeepsie Day School would love to join you in your penny project. We are a Pre-K-12 school and would like to be involved cross divisionally. Please let me know how we can get started.
From Robin Neal (Frankfurt International School, Germany)
My English classes are excited and have thought of a way to incorporate the penny drive into charity efforts we've already established for Kinderhilfe Afghanistan, an aid organization that builds schools for Afghan girls. They are creating a change drive where 1, 2, and 5 cent pieces will be collected (all the copper stuff here in Europe). The pennies will be sent to Storefront and the other pieces will be send to Kinderhilfe. The event is off the ground and I've already had 15 students bring in change in the past two days. We've collected close to 1,000 pennies since Monday.

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From Heidi Culea (International School of Brussels, Belgium)
My students are very inspired by your project!

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Donald worked at Storefront as a volunteer in 2000-2001 when at Klingenstein Center

Michael Langlois from Brimmer & May won $33 at Summercore and decided to donate it to Storefront Penny project in July 2009


Jose Leonor from Horace Mann School won the $33 and then donated it to the Storefront Billion Penny project by tucking the money into the plastic bandage on the Larry Bird doll!

From Lisa Moore in Colorado

click here for my skype with using cell phones as plan B!
click here for 1 minute of our second SKYPE
click here for 13 minutes of our second SKYPE

I was just made aware of the Storefront Billion Penny Project from a story online dated May 17, 2009. How fascinating!

My children attend a very tiny rural school in southern Colorado where most families live below the national poverty line. I developed and led a Penny Project at our school in February where the students raised $1,200 in one month. The Denver Mint even sent reps to visit us. In addition to raising money, the kids tapped into their imaginations and wrote stories about where some of the pennies may have journeyed. The Denver Post printed a column that I wrote about this on Feb 12 which was the release day of the first newly designed penny of 2009.

Since the culmination of our school's project I have been invited to other schools and libraries. I have attached a PDF brochure that gives more details about our penny project. Though not sure how it could be done, I would love to figure out a way to visit your school, with your permission. Also, for your information, I have written a novel (not-yet-published) about the journeys of a penny that is represented by the MacGregor Literary Agency. Not only will your students eventually see what a billion pennies look like, they will discover how to open their creative minds and consider the various people who have at some point intercepted each of the coins. Lisa Moore (Hooper, CO) click for blog

Click here for the first draft of a video and song from a 7th grade and Mr. Williams (this first version was filmed on Friday 10/16/09) ... this video is just a first draft and is purposely small so that it loads more quickly
Click here to go
to the original NY1 Web
site; text here.
Click here for the
video from our own site.
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go to the main Storefront
Web page.
Penny Video by our Kindergarten students inspired by Lisa Moore (The Penny Lady) from Colorado ... click here ... password required
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