Prizes and special discount offers will be available for all Sizzlin’ Summer Times  Readers, including tickets and discount coupons to sporting events, museums, local attractions, and restaurants. Information about these specials can be found in the weekly HOT SPOT (look in the Baylink section) and here on this Web page. Here are some ways you can win:

HOT SPOT STUFF

Every week, a different sponsor will give props to those of you who are, “In the know” and participating in our Summer Reader program. All you have to do is wear your Sizzlin Summer Times Reader pin or cut out and bring the HOT SPOT ad to our participating sponsors during their HOT SPOT week.

Our weekly HOT SPOT prizes include a variety of ways to
help make your summer the COOLEST  ever!

Week One, is time for a cool way to sea life at the Florida Aquarium. You and your happy feet can tap on over to the penguin promenade, or get wet and wild at the Explore a Shore. http://www.flaquarium.org

Week Two, you can visit a place devoted to teaching all races and cultures to recognize the inherent worth and dignity of human life. The Florida Holocaust Museum http://www.flholocaustmuseum.org/ is offering free admission to you and your family.

It’s time to chill out on Week Three and stop into a Circle K near you and treat yourself to a refreshing Icee! www.circlek.com

Week Four is time to celebrate! You can play indoors or outdoors at your choice of free miniature golf or laser tag at Celebration Station. http://www.celebrationstation.com

Week Five it’s time to get moving and stay cool! Head on over to your local YMCA and check out all of the awesome activities they have available including use of their fitness room and swimming pools (Pinellas, Pasco and Hillsborough Counties only).
http://www.stpeteymca.org , http://www.ymca.net, http://www.tampaymca.org

Week Six discover a place just for you at the Great Explorations Children’s Museum. Explore exhibits like the mini grocery store, veterinary office, fire station and more! http://greatexplorations.org.

Week Seven bring your family back to a museum and learn about the weird and wacky world of a famous eccentric artist at the Salvador Dali Museum. You get free admission and your family gets in for half price! http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/home.html

Travel back in time! Week Eight has discount admission at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) www.mosi.org and includes their new Dinosaurs! The Exhibition. Come face to face with the enormous beasts that roamed the Earth 65 million years ago!

Week Nine will have you saying, "I'm lovin' it!" Be sure to check your mail for coupons for a free cheeseburger from McDonald's.

Week Ten: We hope you have been keeping track of your favorite articles in your Summer Times Reader Log. After school starts, all participating students who completed their reading logs will be entered in a drawing to win some great prizes including free admission passes to Muvico Theaters, ice cream for a year from Working Cow Ice Cream, cool merchandise from Busch Gardens and a Dell computer with flat screen monitor and DVD burner donated by Data Balance.

Send your completed logs to the address below to be entered in the drawing. If you missed a week or two, just be sure that all 10 boxes of the log are filled out with information from different days you read the newspaper. DonÕt forget that you and your parent or guardian must fill out the back page of the log in order to be eligible for awards. If you have misplaced your reader log or need a new one, you can call the reader hotline or go to our Web site at http://www.tampabay.com/nie/summer/readerlog.shtml

DON'T FORGET TO SEND YOUR COMPLETED READING LOGS TO:
NIE Summer Reading, PO Box 150, St. Petersburg, FL 33731

Keep checking back as new prizes will be added as the summer goes on!

Click here to download some fun family activities.

You can also click here to download a comprehensive parent guide (in English or Spanish) from the Newspaper Association of America Foundation.