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Summer Breakout Is Online!
100

The date children may begin playing the summer breakout game board.

What is June 1st?

100

The week of June 24th Youth staff will travel among locations for "this wet substance week", also know as "Splash Bash".

What is Water Week?

100

Here you can find the registration form for the summer camp "Summer Breakout Camp" brochure.

What is the Summer Breakout Camp brochure?

100

The term for the learning decay that happens during the months kids are not in school?

What is the summer slide?

100

Considered the library's online community, it is used as the library's electronic gamification version of Summer Breakout.

What is Beanstack?

200

The title of this year's Summer Breakout.

What is "A Universe of Stories"?

200

A type of movie, in the tradition of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show", where the move viewers are expected to perform activities related to the movie being shown. (1)

What is an interactive or a participation movie?

200

Here you can find directions for creating an account to play Summer Breakout online.

What is the Beanstack bookmark?

200

On average, kids lose more than this many months of grade level equivalency in reading skills and other school subjects over the summer months.

What is two (2)?

200

Using Beanstack, participants can log these two things.

What are reading and activities?

300

The last date to turn in a Summer Breakout game board.

What is August 17th?

300

During National Summer Learning Week, July 7th - 13th, youth at all locations will be able to participate in a variety of unsupervised activities otherwise known as these.

What are passive OR self-directed activities. 

300

Here you can the children's summer events listed.

What is on the children's "Universe of Stories" bookmark, and/or game board?

300

Recent studies have shown that children are receiving less and less of this in school; a void libraries can help fill with Summer Breakout.

What is free play?

300

Adults can participate and earn badges on Beanstack by doing this.

What is writing a book review?

400

Children can participate and earn prizes by completing any number of these.

What are game boards and/or learning tracks?

400

Initiated last year, this takes place in addition to the usual events and game board associated with the children's portion of Summer Breakout. 

What is Summer Breakout Camp?

400

Here you can find the adults summer events listed.

What is on the adults "Universe of Stories" bookmark?

400

As part of the community, libraries have a responsibility to children to provide a collaborative approach to learning and health, which can be supported through Summer Breakout called this.

What is whole child?

400

An entry in this is awarded to adults for every Beanstack badge earned.

What is the weekly prize drawing?

500

Adults can participate and earn prizes by completing any number of these.

What are book reviews?

500

A part of our work attire from June 1st to August 17th allowed any day of the week.

What are the Universe of Stories t-shirts and jeans?

500

Here you can find the teens summer events listed.

What is the teen summer flier?

500

Libraries have an important role in helping children and adults of all income levels and circumstances due to providing this type of access?

What is free?

500

A component of the Children's version of Beanstack which requires the participant to complete a set number of activities.

What is a learning track?

600

An item provided exclusively by the library but not required to play Summer Breakout.

What is a library card?

600

An event, on July 29th, needing to happen after hours when it is dark.

What is the Night Sky Viewing?

600

This online version of Summer Breakout is found on our website by scrolling to the bottom of the homepage AND in the drop down menus of these three areas: "Using the Library", "Kids", and "Teens".

What is Beanstack?

600

Name one way that reading benefits adults.

What is "memory improvement", OR "stress relief", OR "better focus", OR "empathy"?

600

Children earn this electronic reward when they complete a learning track on Beanstack.

What is a Beanstack Badge?

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