PBS Fort Wayne and area businesses are partnering for our 11th Annual Explorer Day at Parkview Field on Saturday, June 7th, from 10:00am-2:00pm for FREE family fun!

Explorer Day 2025-a PNC Foundation Grow Up Great^® Be My Neighbor Day Event - is our annual free event celebrating families, fun, and hands-on learning with partnerships from area businesses, non-profits, and PBS KIDS.

Your family will enjoy this fun day packed with educational activities, games, and a chance to meet some real PBS KIDS characters such as Clifford The Big Red Dog, Jet Propulsion from Ready Jet Go! and your favorite PBS Fort Wayne Pup, Ryder! With dozens of local businesses and non-profits being caring neighbors by bringing engaging activities to Parkview Field, there will be something for everyone to enjoy!

Grab your stroller or wagon, load up the kids, aunts, uncles and grandparents and we'll see YOU at Parkview Field!

Check out our 2025 Community Partners...

• ACRES Land Trust • Adapt for Life • Anthony Wayne Council Boy Scouts • Bierman Autism Centers • Brightpoint • Bussick Orthodontic • Crazy Pinz • DeKalb County Visitors Bureau

• Early Childhood Alliance • F.A.M.E. • Fort Financial • Fort Wayne Area Homeschools • Fort Wayne Ballet • Fort Wayne Center for Learning • Fort Wayne Children’s Choir

• Fort Wayne Philharmonic • Fort Wayne Youtheatre • Indiana University-Fort Wayne • Iris Family Support Center • Junior Achievement of Northeast Indiana • Legacy Martial Arts

• The Literacy Alliance • Mind Cap Center • Monica Riecke, Realtor • My School Options • Neighborhood Health WIC • Neigborhood Health Clinic • Parkview Sports Medicine Icehouse

• Pizza Hut • Pontiac Street Market • Purdue-Fort Wayne ETCS Outreach Program • Purdue-Fort Wayne College of Visual and Performing Arts

• Southwest Montessori Academy • United Art & Education

If you’d like your business to participate in 2025's Explorer Day on Saturday, June 7, 2025 as a vendor or one of our sponsors,

contact our Corporate Development Department at corporatedevelopment@wfwa.org.

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