Well, summer break is almost here, a lot of the kids happy about that, which means students may be looking for fun things to do.

The Las Vegas Clark County Library District Summer Challenge... is designed to help beat summer boredom.

And joining me is Shana Harrington with the Library District.

Thanks so much for joining us.

(Shana Harrington) Thank you so much for having me today.

-I am so excited.

This kicks off in just a few days.

Tell us about the Summer Challenge.

-It's an amazing program.

So we focused primarily on books for many, many years.

And I mean, the summer has been a big part of what libraries do for years and years.

And we realized recently that it wasn't just reading that was slipping during the summer, but it was also science and math.

And we really want to help teachers and parents out to really get those students going, but also to make it fun.

-And I love the fun.

First of all, tell us about your mascots, your little "under the sea."

-Absolutely.

So we've got our robots.

You can see them here on my shirt.

We've got our little diving robot and our little puppy robot.

-I love that.

And then let's talk about how kids can get involved.

There are several ways.

-So you're gonna go to a couple different places.

You can go to the librarydistrict.org/ summerchallenge or you can go to one of your favorite branches and pick up one of these wonderful paper logs and go ahead and track your reading there.

-Okay.

And then they track it there, and what else will they do to win some of these cool prizes?

And let's talk about these cool prizes.

-This is-- it's so easy.

What they're gonna do is read for 30 minutes.

And this is our reading log right here.

And we've got, of course, different depths.

So they're gonna even learn involuntarily or voluntarily the Sunlight Zone, the Midnight Zone, the Twilight Zone, the Midnight Zone by filling in their 30 minutes or doing activities.

But activities can be reading.

I know parents are very attached to reading because that's what they did when they were little.

And then they can also keep reading by participating in our Super Reader Challenge.

I'm a super reader.

I know a lot of people are super readers out there.

-And then let's also talk about the importance of doing this during the summer.

-So it's really important to really keep those school skills sharp, right, during the summer because we want to make sure that they're engaged.

I mean, they can zone out in front of a television or their video games, but we know that too much screen time is too much screen time.

And so we make it so that they can win these really cool prizes for just reading or doing activities or coming to a program or coming into the library.

Illuminarium tickets that you can be entered in for, T-shirts for the Golden Knights, Raising Cane's, Panda Express.

And if you do the Super Reader prize, you have a chance to win an Apple iPad.

-An iPad.

You heard that right.

Thank you so much for what you do, all the librarians, everybody at the Library District.

Thank you so much.

-Thank you.

-All right.

Summer Challenge.

Let's go!