Sandy’s Summer Splash Into Reading 2024
Wausau Area’s reading incentive program & literacy fundraiser
THE RESULTS ARE IN!
The 2024 event has come to a close.
46 awesome Wausau Area kids DOUBLED the funds we raised last year!
$4,382.36 will go to Wausau Area literacy initiatives!
2024 Pledge Sponsors
These generous sponsors pledged a combined total of $5,275* to the Wausau Early Birds Rotary Club Reading to Go program and McLit – Marathon County Literacy Council. The top two sponsors donated the remainder of their pledges to the Bookfair at Wausau Barnes & Noble to purchase books for the beneficiaries!
*Pledges:
Connexus Association – $2,000 – TWO PENNIES PER MINUTE
PENNY PER MINUTE SPONSORS:
Office Enterprises, Inc. – $750 | Inspired by Design Interiors – $500 | JARP – $500 | Dovorany Orthodontics – $500 | Westphal Staffing – $300 | Wausau Tax & Accounting – $225 | SK Design – $200 | Astia Health – $200 | Mosinee Family Dental – $100
How much pledge money can we raise in 2024?
Participate any time Sunday, June 2 through Saturday, July 13 to raise money for local literacy and become eligible for prizes…
2024 Prizes
First fifty registered participants receive a sticker sheet!
Parents receive FREE COFFEE PERKS for every reading log they submit!
Award Ceremony and Book Fair
Wausau Barnes & Noble
226810 Rib Mountain Dr
Wausau, WI 54401
Friday, July 26
11:00 – 11:30am
Join us as fundraising totals and top winners are announced, and see who wins the grand prize drawing!
Prizes ~ Giveaways ~ Book Fair
More exciting Book Fair details coming soon!
THANK YOU, 2024 PRIZE SPONSORS!
SPECIAL THANKS TO SUN – EVENT PRINT SPONSOR
supporting the event through signage, printed marketing pieces and more!
LITERACY PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES
Wausau Early Birds Rotary Club Reading to Go Program
The Wausau Early Birds Rotary Club Reading to Go program is a group of caring Rotary members who teach early literacy strategies in collaboration with Wausau School District, D.C. Everest School District and Newman Catholic Schools.
McLit – Marathon County Literacy Council
McLit Mission: Improving quality of life through literacy
McLit Vision: To be an organization that provides educational information and resources to everyone through the promotion of literacy programs, and support those in need by mentoring, tutoring, teaching, and coaching.
McLit tutors find themselves addressing our community’s growing ESL (English as a second language) tutoring needs.
BENEFITS OF FUNDING LOCAL LITERACY
Local literacy initiatives help the people in our own community reduce poverty, improve health, reduce the probability of incarceration and become upwardly mobile!
NEWS
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
DOWNLOAD AND PRINT THE READING LOG> CLICK HERE
Kids ages six to twelve: ask a parent to print the reading log. Keep track of the minutes you read every week from June 2 to July 13. Ask your parents to submit your weekly reading totals online. For every week you participate, you get a chance to win the GRAND PRIZE DRAWING!** The TOP 3 READERS and WEEKLY READING WARRIOR** will be awarded special prizes, and the first 50 kids to sign up will receive a sticker sheet!
WHAT KIND OF READING MATERIAL COUNTS?
You may log minutes reading picture books, chapter books, magazines, graphic novels, the newspaper, dictionary, scientific dissertations…anything you read! Also feel free to include time you spend listening to audiobooks.
Parents: submit the minutes your child reads every week. For every week of participation, you get FREE COFFEE PERKS from Clean Slate Coffee House! Minutes may be submitted until Saturday, July 20.
After winners are announced on July 26, remaining prizes and sticker sheets may be picked up at Clean Slate Coffee House.
1027 E Grand Ave, Rothschild, WI 54474
Follow Secret of the Starflower on Facebook for reading program and fundraising updates!
**1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners will not be eligible
Who’s Sandy?
~ From the event organizer and author-illustrator, Jessica Kopecky
Sandy is the main character of Secret of the Starflower: Rainbow of Spectra, an award-winning, full-color children’s chapter book I published in the summer of 2021. Parents gave feedback that the story engaged their reluctant readers. The following summer I created a yearly reading program to further incentivize young readers and boost literacy.
