{"id":25039,"date":"2023-07-11T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=25039"},"modified":"2023-07-09T14:56:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T19:56:02","slug":"missouri-first-lady-teresa-parson-having-a-community-challenge-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/lifestyle\/personal\/missouri-first-lady-teresa-parson-having-a-community-challenge-for-students-20230711","title":{"rendered":"Missouri First Lady Teresa Parson Having A CommUNITY Challenge For Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Missouri First Lady Teresa Parson is having a CommUNITY Challenge for elementary students. The challenge goes from June 1, 2023, through August 4, 2023.<\/p>\n<h2>The Challenge<\/h2>\n<p>The CommUNITY Challenge aims to instill in kids a heart for service. This challenge is for kids from kindergarten through sixth grade. This is for any Missouri student.<\/p>\n<h3>Categories<\/h3>\n<p>There are eight categories kids can choose from if they are having trouble coming up with ideas. Of the eight, they only have to do four of them to complete the challenge. <a class=\"simple-footnote\" title=\"CommUNITY Challenge Guidelines and Information- First Lady Teresa Parson\" id=\"return-note-25039-1\" href=\"#note-25039-1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a> The categories are as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Care for the food-insecure.<\/li>\n<li>Share your appreciation.<\/li>\n<li>Show kindness to the elderly.<\/li>\n<li>Support foster kids and families.<\/li>\n<li>Thank first responders.<\/li>\n<li>Honor veterans and service men and women.<\/li>\n<li>Uplift the homeless.<\/li>\n<li>Free choice.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/firstlady.mo.gov\/kids\/service-categories\">examples in each of the categories, you can go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Register<\/h2>\n<p>Elementary students can register at any time for the challenge. To register, <a href=\"https:\/\/firstlady.mo.gov\/kids\/register\">you can go to this page<\/a>. After registering, families will receive additional information and the service log. Completed service logs must be returned to the office of the First Lady by August 4th.<\/p>\n<h2>Completion<\/h2>\n<p>Every kid who completes the CommUNITY Challenge will receive a certificate from First Lady Teresa Parson. <a class=\"simple-footnote\" title=\"CommUNITY Service Challenge- First Lady Teresa Parson\" id=\"return-note-25039-2\" href=\"#note-25039-2\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a> To the first five hundred kids that register, they will get a free t-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FirstLadyTeresa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FirstLadyTeresa<\/a>&#39;s CommUNITY Service Challenge is off to a great start this summer. There is still time to participate and the program runs through August 4. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mZYzdYUVOJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/mZYzdYUVOJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ulj9xqx7H9\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ulj9xqx7H9<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Governor Mike Parson (@GovParsonMO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovParsonMO\/status\/1677383426658148357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<hr \/><div class=\"simple-footnotes\"><h4 class=\"notes\">Notes:<\/h4><ol><li id=\"note-25039-1\" class=\"simple-footnote\"><a class=\"tjfootnotes\" href=\"#return-note-25039-1\">&#94;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/firstlady.mo.gov\/kids\/information\">CommUNITY Challenge Guidelines and Information- First Lady Teresa Parson<\/a> <a href=\"#return-note-25039-1\">&#40;go back &nbsp;&#8617;&#41;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"note-25039-2\" class=\"simple-footnote\"><a class=\"tjfootnotes\" href=\"#return-note-25039-2\">&#94;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/firstlady.mo.gov\/kids\">CommUNITY Service Challenge- First Lady Teresa Parson<\/a> <a href=\"#return-note-25039-2\">&#40;go back &nbsp;&#8617;&#41;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri First Lady Teresa Parson is having a CommUNITY Challenge for elementary students. The challenge goes from June 1, 2023, through August 4, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[243,257,213,229,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25039"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25067,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25039\/revisions\/25067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}