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Super Kid: Meet Heman Bekele, Time Magazine's Kid of the Year


You don't have to be a grown-up to be a scientist! And you can't be a grown-up to be Time Magazine's 2024 Kid of the Year. Heman Bekele, a 10th-grader at Woodson High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, won the magazine's Young Scientist Challenge - and $25,000. The accomplishment that led to him being named Kid of the Year: inventing a soap that could one day treat and even prevent multiple forms of skin cancer. What a super kid!

Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month with a music quiz

If you didn't already know, October is National Hispanic Heritage Month! Carnegie Hall - a famous music venue in New York City - has created a music quiz for kids you can take to celebrate Hispanic Heritage by learning about rhythms in Latin music. Take the quiz here.

The 2024 Recommended Reading List is here!

 This year's recommendations include reading categories for:

  • Picture books for ages 3-7
  • Children's literaure/chapter books for ages 8-12
  • Middle grade for ages 13-16
  • Young adult for ages 16-20
  • And nonfiction options for multiple ages
Download the list here under the Reading category.
 


Reading Rewards 5 Stay at Home Party

Calling all readers ages 3 to 17: our 5th Reading Rewards Stay at Home party will be Sat., Aug. 3. This year's theme is Celebrating Culture. Here's how to register and receive your activities kit:

  • Email nirmvdetroit at gmail.com by Fri., July 12, 2024
  • Include the name(s) and age(s) of the participants
  • Include the name and postal address of the adult authorizing participation in Reading Rewards

Download and share the flyer (PDF)


 

From John Legend's 2024 undergraduate commencement speech at Loyola Marymount University