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