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State Fair Adventurer Scavenger Hunts helps make the fair an educational experience

Calling all elementary, middle and high school students – the fair makes it easy to turn your field trip to the fair into an educational one. The State Fair Adventurer Scavenger Hunts allow students and their teachers or parents to learn a little about the state while at the fair. Once completed, students can turn in their answers and receive a State Fair Adventurer Ribbon. “Each year we try to include new booths and questions on the annual hunt,” said Kent Yelverton, fair manager. “Locations like the Flower Show, N.C. Forest Service and N.C. Wildlife Resources Commision are always excited…

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Read to Win expands statewide

Students in grades 6 through 12 across the state may want to take the month of September to pick up a good book. The Fair is giving out more than 3,000 gate admission tickets across the state to students winners of the Read to Win Competition. “Each public library will receive two prize packs of four of gate admission passes to give as prizes to the winning students chosen who complete their reading goals,” said Lori Special, youth service consultant with the  State Library of N.C.  “The goal of the program is to encourage young people to read for pleasure,…

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