In this article, the author chronicles his odyssey to search for an elusive prize. He was teaching a television production class that had many students and little equipment. The equipment he had was barely consumer grade. He needed to replace it with higher grade equipment as well as massively increase the quantities of everything he had so more students would have access to gear at the same time. The problem was that he needed funds. The story presented here has a happy ending and is filled with ideas that teachers can adopt to create the same solution to the money problem, while giving their students a real-world education.