Summer Camp
  • Badges
    • Gardening - Week 1
    • Mystery - Week 2
    • Travel - Week 3
    • History - Week 4
    • Families - Week 5
    • Music - Week 6
    • Heroes - Week 7
    • Animals & Nature - Week 8
    • Food & Drink - Week 9
    • Arts & Crafts - Week 10
  • Instructions
  • Read for Good

Heroes Badge

TO ​​​EARN YOUR BADGE, CHOOSE ANY COMBINATION OF ACTIVITIES AND FILL OUT THE BADGE FORM
Online Diversions
Explore the heroic in everyday life, in history, or on film.
  • Listen to the National Philharmonic’s musical Tribute to Healthcare Workers
  • See how heroes are portrayed on screen; watch a movie on hoopla or kanopy
  • Watch an episode of the "Heroes and Legends" Great Course on Kanopy
  • Explore the original online exhibit about writer and orator Frederick Douglass AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM
  • Take the "Introduction to Community Emergency Response Teams" online course for adults from FEMA
Offline Adventures
Not all heroes wear capes.
  • Make a sign thanking first responders or healthcare workers and put it in your window
  • Draw a picture of or write a letter to someone you look up to or who inspires you
  • Make a cardboard superhero TUTORIAL
  • Make a Family Emergency Plan READY.GOV
  • Take a walk while listening to an audiobook about someone you admire: biography audiobooks
Suggested Reading
​Read for fun ~ read for good!
  • Three book recommendations in 4 minutes BOOK BREAK
  • Recommendations: Familiar Faces, Fascinating Lives
  • Biographies and memoirs: cloudLibrary hoopla Libby/OverDrive 
  • Biographies for teens: cloudLibrary hoopla
  • Biographical fiction for teens: cloudLibrary hoopla 
  • Superheroes for teens: cloudLibrary hoopla
  • Legends, fables, and myths for teens: hoopla Libby/OverDrive
All reading counts! You do not have to read about heroes. Listening to audiobooks counts, too, of course.

​​CLAIM YOUR BADGE

At the end of the week, submit your activities and reading minutes. Complete one form for each participant. Deadline for raffle entry: Wednesday, July 22, at 12 PM CDT.
Badge Form

Print a Tracking sheet

Download a printable PDF to help keep track of the badges you've earned and the number of minutes you've read.
Download PDF
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

from “Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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  • Badges
    • Gardening - Week 1
    • Mystery - Week 2
    • Travel - Week 3
    • History - Week 4
    • Families - Week 5
    • Music - Week 6
    • Heroes - Week 7
    • Animals & Nature - Week 8
    • Food & Drink - Week 9
    • Arts & Crafts - Week 10
  • Instructions
  • Read for Good