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Libraries—Summer Learning Challenge: Chance to Earn $1000 Scholarships
August 31 deadline : Reminder to all youths 18 and under to visit Peninsula Libraries to read books and win a chance to a 1K scholarship
A Reminder: Young people have until August 31, 2023 to submit their challenge logs.
The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors funds the Summer Learning Challenge via Measure K.
This Summer Reading Challenge started at San Mateo County Fair last June where the San Mateo County Libraries had an area to promote reading books. The participants were given a form to log their reading sat on beanbags, read for twenty minutes, then colored a circle , read again for 20 minutes, until the all the circles are colored. You submit your log to the librarian and you get a free book.; you also get a chance to win one thousand scholarship money. The challenge is open to youth not over 18 years old. You can submit as many logs to get more chances to win.
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The fair had a lot of young people participating since there were creative kid’s activities. Students from grade school, middle school, high school participated in Youth Art Exhibition, 4H members, livestock entrants.
To get an entry log form for the challenge, visit
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https://smcl.org/summer-learning-challenge-2023/
The Participating Libraries in San Mateo County are: Daly City LiBrary, Redwood City Library, Burlingame City Library, San Bruno Library, San Mateo City Library, South San Francisco City Library.
The libraries are members of the Peninsula Library System(PLS)
https://plsinfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Member-Libraries.pdf
Benefits abound when you’re a reader such as getting good grades at school, get information easily, entertains the mind, enhances creativity, etc.
What do billionaires have in common? Most of them are readers like Bill Gates, Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet, Oprah Winfrey, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg.
https://www.inc.com/james-paine/5-billionaires-who-credit-their-success-to-reading.html
As for the author who is no longer under 18 years young, my challenge was to draft my book proposal by participating in a writing boot camp for one month last July to write 1000 words a day. I was supposed to go on one month vacation last month (July) to attend a wedding, visit relatives, go island hopping but opted to write my book challenge. I got a winner’s certificate. I’ve tried several times before to write during vacations by taking along my laptop, notebooks but failed to write; one needs to focus to write and also read a lot.
Happy learning and reading.
