$20K Worth Of Items Stolen From Chestnut Hill School

CHESTNUT HILL, PHILADELPHIA – A Chestnut Hill school was found to have had more than $20,000 worth of items stolen from it.

The Jenks Academy for the Arts and Sciences on the 8400 block of Germantown Avenue in Chestnut Hill discovered the major thefts on June 7.

"Most items taken were newly purchased for the purpose of launching our whole school Robotics program as well as equipment for our annual school musical and Day of the Arts," according to the Friends of J S Jenksgroup. "This is a terrible loss to our children and programs at the school. The police are investigating the theft but have no leads."

According to the group, these are some of the items that were stolen:

• 20 LEGO WeDo 2.0 Core Sets (Robotics) valued at $200 each
• 26 LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Core Sets (Robotics) valued at $412 each
• 3 Canon EOS Rebel T7i Digital Cameras valued at $1288 each
• 2 Shure BLX24/SM58 Handheld Wireless System with SM58 Capsule valued at $350 each
• 6 Headsets with transponder boxes
• 1 Optoma S341 DLP projector 3D and Kramer video splitter with 3 ports valued at $435 ($295 and $140)

As a response to the huge loss, the group has set up a GoFundMe campaign to help earn back some of its losses.

As of 3:30 p.m. Monday, June 25, just over $1,800 of the $20,000 goal has been raised.

You can contribute to the campaign online here.

Image via GoFundMe