Kansas students can get into 90+ venues for free this summer: Here’s how

WICHITA, Kan. — The Sunflower Summer time program returns, giving Kansas college students free entry to museums, zoos, historic landmarks, and out of doors areas, launches as soon as once more.

See all of the areas Kansas households can go to free of charge beginning Could 28 right here.

This Kansas Division of Training program is funded by federal COVID-19 cash to supply over 90 summer time enrichment actions to the youngsters of Kansas. Final 12 months, over 71,000 Kansans participated.

Kansans will be capable to take part on this program till Aug. 14. Throughout this time, anybody with a smartphone or pill will be capable to use the Sunflower Summer time app out there by means of the Google Play Retailer and Apple’s App Retailer. Adults might want to register their relations and embody their county and faculty district.

Each Kansas scholar up till age 21, and two accompanying adults, will be capable to entry a ticket voucher to every of the taking part sights within the Sunflower Summer time app.

After deciding on a location, you may declare tickets within the app. Upon arrival, the ticket may be activated and introduced to the ticket taker. The ticket will then be “stamped” within the Sunflower Summer time passport contained in the app and can now not be accessible.

Along with 90 sights, this program is providing the next bonus occasions:

• Sunflower Summer time Household Campout at Milford State Park
  • Thursday, July 7
  • Be part of us for an in a single day camp loaded with enjoyable actions for the household to take pleasure in, together with fishing, archery, canoeing, campfire, s’mores and extra.
• Sunflower Summer time Sundays with Wichita Surge at Riverfront Stadium
  • 1:05 p.m. Sunday, June 26: Wichita Wind Surge vs. San Antonio
  • 1:05 p.m. Sunday, July 17: Wichita Wind Surge vs. Arkansas
  • Take pleasure in a Sunday sport with your loved ones from the berm seating space and a private tour of the brand new baseball museum. (Museum doorways open quarter-hour after the final pitch). Supply good for one sport per household on June 26 or July 17. Riverfront Stadium is dwelling to the Wichita Wind Surge, a Double-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins. The brand new baseball museum pays homage to the historical past of baseball within the Wichita neighborhood originating from the Twenties groups (the Bulldozers and the Crimson Stockings), the Negro league and way more.

• a hundred and fiftieth Anniversary of Dodge Metropolis Celebration at Boot Hill Museum
  • Friday, June 17
  • Come be part of us for the grand celebration in honor of Dodge Metropolis’s a hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Enjoyable actions embody Previous West re-enactments, new displays, demos, cowboy band, storytelling, ice cream social and extra.

• Annual Thresher Present in Chicken Metropolis
  • Saturday, July 30
  • Have fun our rural heritage and honor our nation’s army women and men. The day will function army automobiles and tools, army re-enactments from WWll, demonstrations, steam engine races, tractor pulls, child’s actions and extra. Households can try 14 steam traction engines, 30-plus buildings stuffed with farm-related objects and greater than 200 vintage tractors.

“This program helped greater than 43,100 college students keep engaged in studying all through the summer time months. It supplied households an opportunity to bond and afforded some households the chance to take a trip they in any other case wouldn’t have had the assets for,” Kansas Commissioner of Training Dr. Randy Watson mentioned.

“It additionally stimulated journey and tourism inside Kansas. We heard from households that the Sunflower Summer time program launched them to new actions they hadn’t beforehand tried, and venues famous that this system drew summer time guests from areas of the state they normally don’t see. We’re so happy to have the ability to supply Sunflower Summer time once more this 12 months.”

Funding for this system is restricted, and tickets are on a first-come, first-serve foundation. To be taught extra concerning the Sunflower Summer time program, click on right here.