About 30 Youth Athletes, Commissioner Ellis, Street Olympics Board Members will Kick Off the Summer Games with Demonstrations of Basketball Dribble, Football Accuracy, Hula Hoop, Jump Rope
‘Street Games’ Competition gives underserved communities equitable access to quality recreation and enrichment programs
Style Magazine Newswire | 6/20/2023, 3:35 p.m.
Commissioner Rodney Ellis
About 30 children from two Precinct One community centers will demonstrate so-called street games before Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis and Harris County Street Olympics board members kick off the Summer Games, an Olympic-style competition and enrichment program involving 2,000 youth. During the event, the children will be shown live animals that are part of Precinct One’s Environmental Education Program, which teaches youth about nature and the environment during the Street Olympics Discovery Camp held throughout the summer. The event also will feature youth lighting the Olympic flame that will be extinguished at the Final Event in August.
The Summer Games provides children in underserved communities equitable access to quality recreation and enrichment programs to keep them safe, active, and learning all summer. The year-round Street Olympics has multiple components and programs that give boys and girls experience in leadership and competition, and offers them the chance to develop important educational, recreational, and social skills.
Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis
Wendy Montoya Cloonan, Street Olympics Board Member
Finnigan Youth Education Town and Lincoln Park Community Center Youth
Wednesday, June 21, 9:30 a.m.: Demonstration of sports begin
10 a.m.: News conference starts
10:30 a.m.: More sports demonstrations
Finnigan Park Gymnasium
4900 Providence St.
Houston, TX, 77020
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