Mayor Bowser Encourages Residents to Participate in Discover Summer and Take Advantage of the DC Public Library’s Museum Days

(Washington, DC) – At the moment, Mayor Muriel Bowser is encouraging households to benefit from the DC Public Library’s (DCPL) Uncover Summer time program, which incorporates free museum days and different alternatives to study at house and locally. 

“In DC, we’re surrounded by alternatives to study – and we wish folks of all ages, however particularly our younger folks, to benefit from these alternatives,” mentioned Mayor Bowser. “On high of all of the free museums we’ve in DC, the library can also be free. The Uncover Summer time program combines the assets of our library with the numerous studying alternatives in our neighborhood, and it’s a enjoyable option to maintain children engaged and studying by way of these remaining weeks of summer time break.”

The Uncover Summer time program promotes studying and exploration of DC utilizing actions involving completely different literacy kinds. Every day studying and studying is critically vital to stop the “summer time slide,” notably for our youngest learners. Uncover Summer time gives enjoyable, enriching packages and prizes that encourage college students to learn and have interaction in significant tutorial actions. Via August 31, contributors are requested to finish a minimum of 4 actions a month. Since Uncover Summer time’s launch in late Might, greater than 1,200 adults and a couple of,200 children have signed up. As well as, greater than 3,100 actions have been logged.  

“Uncover Summer time creates alternatives for studying in libraries, at house and all through the District,” mentioned Richard Reyes-Gavilan, Government Director on the DC Public Library. “Partnerships with the Phillips Assortment, the Kreeger Museum, and the Spy Museum take away boundaries for cardholders who need to expertise extra of DC’s considerable museum choices. As well as, when youngsters interact in studying actions with dad and mom and trusted adults like these visits, they’re extra more likely to make lifelong studying a behavior.”   

The schedule for Uncover Summer time Museum Days is:    

• July 19 | The Spy Museum will provide cardholders particular actions and giveaways in its occasion house.  
• July 23 | The Kreeger Museum will provide free admission to DC Public Library card holders throughout scheduled hours.     
• August 13 | The Phillips Assortment will provide free admission to DC Public Library card holders throughout scheduled hours. 

Following the museum days, DCPL places will provide books and different content material for folks to study extra about what they noticed and skilled throughout their go to.    

Whereas studying 20 minutes a day over the summer time stays among the finest methods to assist college students keep in mind extra of what they discovered in the course of the college 12 months, Uncover Summer time isn’t restricted to youngsters. Adults play a crucial function by modeling studying for pleasure as an exercise. By bringing households to museums, partaking in different studying actions and modeling studying for pleasure to youngsters, adults can enter a raffle for present card prizes that embody a free pizza with a $25 &pizza present card; a $30 present card to Loyalty bookstore; or a $50 present card to Busboys and Poets. Just like the Uncover Summer time program for kids and teenagers, any studying counts.    

To study extra about Uncover Summer time and the visiting instances on the collaborating libraries, go to your neighborhood library or dclibrary.org/discoversummer.   

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