For parents needing an extra hand with back-to-school prep, Austin’s TCC store is looking to help them out on Sunday.

Round Room LLC., the nation’s largest Verizon Authorized Wireless Retailer, announced that its TCC and Wireless Zone stores are donating 187,000 backpacks full of new school supplies to make sure that all students across the United States will be prepared for the start of the school year.

“We are thrilled to support the education of our youth in our communities,” said Scott Moorehead, CEO of Round Room, parent company of TCC. “By providing families across the country with essential school supplies, we’re easing the back-to-school shopping burden and helping set children up for success.”

Sunday, July 23  will mark the sixth annual School Rocks Backpack Giveaway. Since 2013, TCC donated 752,000 backpacks. Any of the leftover backpacks will then be delivered to some of the local schools in Austin. There’s no registration, sign-up or income requirements needed to pick up a backpack for a child.

Austin’s TCC store location at 1407 1st Ave. SW will be donating about 220 backpacks and are available to students on a first-come and first-served basis, according to Janessa Edwards, Austin’s TCC store manager. Backpacks would be handed out on Sunday between 1 to 4 p.m.

“We get everything in boxes and they’re already put together for them,” Edwards said. “There’s a notebook, pencil holder, pencils, a glue stick, ruler and a folder. All of these are new.”

According to the National Retail Federation, families with school-aged children expect to spend an average of $687.72 each, an 8 percent increase, for a total of $29.5 billion, on school supplies this year, and nearly one of every five school-aged children in the U.S. live in poverty.

Last year, Edwards remembered presenting new backpacks to community members who needed to pick up a backpack for their student. She had around 220 backpacks, and was just left with one box filled with 10 backpacks at the end of the day.

That particular experience reminded Edwards of the program’s necessity and was a great help for parents who were in need of some extra help before starting the school year. She was personally affected when her daughter needed school supplies last year as a kindergartner.

“I got (a backpack) for my daughter, and she’ll be in first grade this year,” Edwards explained. “We didn’t have a lot of money and this (program) really helped a lot. It felt good knowing how it helped me out, and how it’ll help everyone in town. Backpacks are expensive, and this is a good way to help with school costs.”