Stepping Up for Summer Learning
800 Summer Campers, 30 community organizations, and 50 volunteers at the TaxSlayer Center on Monday, July 11
Media Contact: Dan McNeil, dan@springforwardqca.org, 309.269.7136
On Monday, Spring Forward will host Stepping up for Summer Learning at the TaxSlayer Center. More than 800 children from Spring Forward, Boys and Girls Club of the Mississippi Valley, Martin Luther King Center, Skip-A-Long, It’s a Child’s World and Two Rivers YMCA camps will be attending. The event, sponsored by the John Deere Foundation, is the single largest summer learning celebration in Iowa and Illinois.
10 am – Camps Arrive
10 -10:15 am – Introduction and short program
10:15 am – 12:30 pm – Activities on the arena floor with community partners
Community Partners
Rock Island Parks and Recreation, Mercado on Fifth, University of Illinois Extension, IHMVCU, River Music Experience, Project Now Head Start, Quad City Botanical Center, City of Rock Island Public Works, Challenge to Change, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, STEAM On Wheels, Rock Island County 4-H, Quad City Steamwheelers, Illowa Council Boy Scouts of , America, River Music Experience, Bettendorf Family Museum, Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa & Western Illinois, Nahant Marsh Education Center, The Winter Soldiers FIRST Tech Challenge Team, Quad City Rugby, Figge Art Museum, Rock Island Public Library and East Moline Public Library.
