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What is Summer Challenge?
WFSU’s annual Summer Challenge provides educational activities for families across the Big Bend with this FREE-for-
you summer learning book, made possible with generous support from our sponsors. These books are
distributed throughout Leon County Public Libraries, neighboring county libraries, select Leon County Schools, and
can be printed digitally from our website. Children earn points for completing activities, which they can exchange
at the end of the summer for prizes, such as books, art supplies, and more.
This year, our Summer Challenge theme is “Civic City”.
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Why Civics?
WFSU Public Media is a public service entity dedicated to informing and educating citizens of all ages about the
world around us! Who better to bring together PBS KIDS content and our partners from our beautiful capital city
and beyond, during our nation’s Semiquincentennial celebration?!Semiquincentennial means 250 years. America’s 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence
takes place this summer on July 4th, 2026, squarely in the middle of our Summer Challenge! We have so much to be
proud of as a country! Our freedoms, rights, and responsibilities as members of our Democratic Republic are the
foundation of our society. We’re celebrating scientific, economic, and technological achievements. For example, we
just blasted off to outer space, and an amazing team traveled all around the moon and back! Our knowledge, our
determination, and our multicultural population … all of these have given our nation a global influence in arts,
innovation, sports, and entertainment.
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Becoming a Good Citizen
Learning to work together, following rules, understanding roles, and developing respectful
communication: these are the skills necessary for our homes, schools, and communities to be safe,
successful, and fair for everyone! Our children are never too young to practice these things and
engage in fun learning experiences along the way. These pages are embedded with English Language
Arts, Social Studies, Science, and so much more hands-on learning and exploring.
