Summer Safety Town® is sponsored by the DTE Energy Foundation in partnership with Eastern Michigan University's (EMU) Children's Theatre Department.

EMU students spend their summer spreading electrical safety messages to children ages 4-6 throughout the southeast region of Michigan. In 2009, the Communication and Theatre Arts student teams traveled to 44 sites, did 123 presentations and delivered electrical safety messages to 4,300 young students. The students, mostly ages 4-6, learned an elementary understanding of electricity and how to respond when they encounter an electrical safety hazard, including to “stop, turn around and go the other way” from downed power lines, that “water and electricity don’t mix”, and more.

This free presentation is offered from June through August for Michigan public schools summer safety education programs. The program content is aimed at grades preschool through second grade.

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