ACUITY Cool Picks for Teens
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Welcome to ACUITY Cool Picks, the Teen Summer Reading Program for grades 6-12, happening beginning May 28 through July 31, at Mead Public Library.
Join us this summer and become a member of ACUITY Cool Picks @ Mead Public Library. It’s all free! All you have to do is read. The more you read, the more chances you’ll have to win a great prize.
Register from home or while you’re @ Mead Library. You must have a library card to join. Library cards are free; sign up or renew at the first floor Customer Service Desk or register for a library card online.
After you finish a book, fill out an online report form and you’ll earn a chance to win one of our fabulous prizes including: Xbox 360 console; Nintendo Wii console; a gift card for Target, Amazon, Best Buy or iTunes; portable DVD player; bicycle; LCD HDTV; books; DVDs; and much more!
We have something for everyone—movies, video and board games, prizes, and a kick-off carnival at ACUITY.
We want you to visit the library this summer! If you are one of the first 50 teens to sign up @ the library after school (3 p.m.) on Tuesday, May 28, you’ll get a free bookbag, including a $10 gift card. Can’t make it that day? No worries. Teens who register @ the library through June 28 will have their names placed in a weekly drawing. Each Friday, through June 28, five lucky teens will win a $10 gift card.
Kick-off Carnival
Join us at ACUITY headquarters for a kick-off carnival on Wednesday, June 19, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Bring your library card and join ACUITY Cool Picks, play giant versions of some of your favorite games or try the Wii on the big screen, and learn some awesome new board games with The GameBoard staff.
Enjoy free soda, walking tacos, and ice cream. Enter a drawing to take home one of 20 gift cards, or our grand prize, an iPod nano!
See You at the Movies!
Monday Movie Madness
June 17: “Lucky One” PG-13, 101 min
June 24: “Skyfall” PG-13, 143 min
July 1: “Woman in Black” PG-13, 95 min
July 8: “Beautiful Creatures” PG-13, 124 min
July 15: “Life of Pi” PG-13, 127 min
July 22: “John Carter” PG-13, 132 min
July 29: “Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” PG-13, 169 min
Aug. 5: “Les Miserables” PG-13, 158 min
Wednesday Action Flicks!
May 29: “Avengers” PG-13, 143 min, 3pm
June 5: “Red Dawn” PG-13, 93 min, 3pm
June 12: “Men In Black 3” PG-13, 106 min, 3pm
June 26: “Dark Knight Rises” PG-13, 165 min
July 3: “Dark Shadows” PG-13, 113 min
July 17: “Amazing Spider Man” PG-13, 136 min
July 31: “Wrath of the Titans” PG-13, 99 min
Aug. 7: “Battleship” PG-13, 131 min
Friday Retro Film Fest!
June 14: “Dumb & Dumber” PG-13, 107 min
June 21: “Fifth Element” PG-13, 127 min
June 28: “Jurassic Park” PG-13, 127 min
July 5: “NeverEnding Story” PG, 94 min
July 12: “ET” PG, 115 min
July 19: “Willow” PG, 126 min
July 26: “Beetlejuice” PG, 92 min
Aug. 2: “Mars Attacks!” PG-13, 105 min
Movies start at 2 pm in the Maas Teen Learning Center, except for May 29, June 5 & 12, which begin at 3 pm. For grades 6-12. Free snacks and soda. Bring comfy seating, if you’d like.
Gaming on Thursdays!
June 13: Super Smash Brothers Tourney
June 20: Open Wii Gaming
June 27: Mario Kart Wii Tourney
July 11: Board games with GameBoard
July 18: Wii Bowling Tourney
July 25: You Don’t Know Jack Wii Trivia
Aug. 1: Open Wii Gaming
Aug. 8: Mario Party & Mario Sports Mix
Gaming starts at 2 pm in the Maas Teen Learning Center. Prizes to the top three tourney winners. Come to a gaming event for a chance to win a $20 gift card at the end of summer. For grades 6-12.
We Need You!
You might win a $50 gift card while you help with ACUITY Cool Picks. Mead Library needs teen volunteers to help keep our shelves in order and to help at the kick-off carnival.
Here’s how it works: Every time you volunteer, you’ll get a chance to win. Plus you’ll have a reference for job, school, and scholarship applications and earn volunteer hours for service organizations. Volunteer up to 3 times a week, June 17 to Aug. 23, for one hour each time. If you’re at least 14 years old, apply at the Maas Teen Learning Center by June 14.
We are really in need for volunteers at the ACUITY Cool Picks carnival on Wednesday, June 19, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at ACUITY. If you are interested in helping at the carnival, please talk to Matt in the Maas Teen Learning Center as soon as possible.
Need a Ride to Mead?
Do you need to take a bus to get to Mead Library? Then ask us about riding the Shoreline Metro bus for free, courtesy of the Friends of Mead Public Library.
Thanks to our sponsors
All Cool Picks activities are free. Thanks to the ACUITY Charitable Foundation for its generous support as the major sponsor of Cool Picks for the eighth year. We also thank:
Cousins Subs
Culver’s Restaurant
Friends of Mead Public Library
The GameBoard LLC
Pizza Hut
Wolf’s Cycling and Fitness