GIANT and JGCC Want to Know What Motivates Kids to Read!
The GIANT Room partners with Joan Ganz Cooney Center to learn about kids’ reading!
The GIANT Room, an innovation hub for children and their families, is excited to announce they will be partnering with Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Sesame Workshop to learn about what motivates kids to read. Kids in grades 6-8 are invited to apply.
Participants will receive a $25 gift card per session!
We’re inviting kids in grades 6–8 to join a fun and interactive research project with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop! Whether your child loves reading, sometimes struggles with it, or is somewhere in between — we want to hear their voice.
During these two sessions, kids will help us explore how they choose what to read, and how they see themselves as readers. Their insights will help shape a reading survey that better reflects kids' real experiences — including multilingual learners and reluctant readers!
To participate, kids must attend both sessions: Thursday October 16th and Friday October 17th 3:30-5:30pm at Sesame Workshop (1900 Broadway on the Upper West Side).
The GIANT Room believes that the most effective tools and resources for families are those co-designed with parents and their children, ensuring that families’ voices, needs, challenges, and desires are at the heart of the design process. These co-design partnerships not only give parents the opportunity to learn more about the fast-changing media landscape that directly impacts their children and family life, but also empower them to help shape this landscape for the better. These workshops also offer children valuable opportunities to meet designers from leading media companies, and to design and build prototypes of tools that may one day be in the hands of millions of other children.
Named after Sesame Street’s visionary co-founder, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center is an independent research and innovation lab within Sesame Workshop dedicated to shaping a positive digital future for children. The Center conducts cutting-edge research on emerging technologies, partners with industry leaders, academics, and educators to translate insights into action, and works closely with policymakers and investors to drive meaningful conversations and decisions. By actively involving children and young people in co-designing the tools that they use, the Center ensures that innovations enhance both learning and well-being—ultimately empowering children to thrive in the digital world.
This program is completely free for families. We are accepting few participants so spots are limited. Families with youth in grades 6-8 are invited to apply.
Participants will receive a $25 gift card per session.
Sesame Workshop is located at 1900 Broadway in New York, NY, 10023.
For more information about GIANT STEAM programs and a full list of their workshops, class series, and events, please visit The GIANT Room’s website.
Who: Youth in grades 6-8
Where: Sesame Workshop at 1900 Broadway, New York, NY, 10023
When: Thursday, October 16th and Friday, October 17th at 3:30-5:30pm