This jihad request is not to help me win some online cutest baby contest, but for you to watch the following video made by a colleague of mine at the school I teach at.
This video was played to our grade 5/6 classes last week, and to our grade 7, 8 and 9 students in an assembly on Thursday. The most amazing and inspiring part of all this is how our students have bought into this idea of helping others and changing the world for the better. The Grade 5/6 kids have collected just under 75kg of pennies in one week. Another student created a facebook group that has about 700 members in less than 48 hours. We are going to hold a name and logo contest next week.
Please consider dropping off any unwanted pennies at Simon Fraser School, located just east of Northland Village Shoppes and Sir Winston Churchill School in NW Calgary. Just leave them in the office, and we will add them to the collection.
P.S.: None of this is a response to CBE budget shortfalls. It's 100% for charity!
Goshdarnit - two days ago I rolled 900 pennies and took them to the bank. I would have happily donated them.
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We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and there); and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.
Pre-1996 Canadian pennies are intrinsically worth more than one cent. Up to as much as 3 cents at today's copper prices: http://www.coinflation.com/canada/
It is illegal in Canada to deface or destroy Canadian coins. It is not illegal to sort out the pre-1996 pennies, drive large quantities across border and sell them at copper scrap prices to any of the US scrap metal recycling companies. This could almost triple the results of this fund raising activity.
This copper bullion exercise could introduce the students to the concepts of fiat money, inflation, currency systems and monetary policy.
For the post-1996 pennies, the First Calgary credit union has coin machines at six of their branches that will automatically count and issue a coupon for the equivalent cash. They take a percentage. For a school project like this, I would imagine that they would waive the processing fee after a bit of negotiation and potential good publicity.
Last edited by freedogger; 04-22-2011 at 10:39 AM.
Rolling pennies? Dude, they have those machines where you just dump em all in, and it does the hard work of separating and counting for you.
Don't they charge a percentage for that?
We had a giant coin jar that had been filling up since the beginning of 2010. $445 in coins. Rolling wasn't that big a deal, just did it while watching something on TV.
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We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and there); and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.
Just wanted to provide an update. In the month since we began this project, our students have collected just under 500kg of pennies, which we have estimated to be worth around $1700.00.
We didn't ask for, but didn't refuse other coins. So far we have close to $4000 in nickels, dimes, quarters, loonies and twoonies.
The best part of this is how our young people have maintained the momentum. Here is a short video update of the Penny Project.
P.S.: Locke, no hoboes have been harmed in the making of this video.
Pre-1996 Canadian pennies are intrinsically worth more than one cent. Up to as much as 3 cents at today's copper prices: http://www.coinflation.com/canada/
It is illegal in Canada to deface or destroy Canadian coins. It is not illegal to sort out the pre-1996 pennies, drive large quantities across border and sell them at copper scrap prices to any of the US scrap metal recycling companies. This could almost triple the results of this fund raising activity.
This copper bullion exercise could introduce the students to the concepts of fiat money, inflation, currency systems and monetary policy.
For the post-1996 pennies, the First Calgary credit union has coin machines at six of their branches that will automatically count and issue a coupon for the equivalent cash. They take a percentage. For a school project like this, I would imagine that they would waive the processing fee after a bit of negotiation and potential good publicity.
Sorry, but I had to laugh when I thought of the Gym in the school set up with a hundred little desks and children sitting there sorting through millions of pennies. So that you could raise money to help fund an organization supporting child labor laws.
CP Jihad: School Penny Project
