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Theater/Music Support

PCF support for music and drama teachers and upgrading school auditoriums.

PCF Creates Sound Studio at Emlen Elementary

For the last couple of years, PCF worked with Emlen Elementary during their talent shows, theater plays and other shows. PCF supported their music teacher Ms. Parker during their rehearsals and shows to purchase various microphones, mix the audio during the events, and even re-mix the music to give back to the kids. This year we are taking a large storage closet and turning it into a small sound studio where PCF will be working [...]

August 24th, 2025|Categories: Theater/Music Support|Tags: |
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Our 2025 Summer: Roosevelt PA System Installation

People assume our summers are pretty chill considering the schools we work with are not in session. Well, this year, it was anything but chill! We worked 5 grueling weeks straight to install an advanced PA system in an auditorium. At the urging of Emlen and Houston school principals, PCF has started to work with another K-8 school in Philadelphia's Northwest: Roosevelt K-8 on East Washington Lane in Germantown. We had worked with them [...]

August 24th, 2025|Categories: Theater/Music Support|Tags: |
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Upgrading Sound Systems

Almost all the schools we work with have a grand auditorium space, talented and engaged music teachers on staff, but they lack any sort of PA or sound system to support them with movie nights, assemblies, school plays, talent shows and so on. Even the graduation ceremonies are barely audible! And as was the case with one of the schools we upgraded, their sound was so inaudible that they had to split up assemblies and [...]

July 24th, 2025|Categories: Theater/Music Support|
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PCF Revamps Houston’s Auditorium AV System

PCF has been a community partner of Houston Elementary School since we started working with schools directly many years ago. Over the years, we have spent a LOT of time and resources at Houston, installing donated desktop computers in every classroom, providing hundreds of refurbished laptops (before and in the beginning of the pandemic), donating laptop carts, teaching STEM classes, running our Tech Masters program, etc. So when Houston contacted PCF about their outdated and [...]

June 29th, 2025|Categories: PCF News, Theater/Music Support|Tags: |
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Donated Piano Given to Emlen Elementary

A generous donor contacted PCF if we could use a baby grand piano. In cases like this, we did what we always do which is to contact our network of schools to see if any of them were in need. Before long, Emlen Elementary let us know that they would love to have it. The donor was thrilled to have their beloved piano go to a good cause but now we had to figure out [...]

June 28th, 2025|Categories: PCF News, Theater/Music Support|Tags: |
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