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Be Smart with your Money!
Attend these programs to learn how to be financially responsible from Certified Financial Education Instructor Donna Cirillo:
Saturday July 11th 11:00am-12:00pm Smart Money Starts Young: Raising Financially Confident Tweens and Teens
Preparing for adulthood starts with the decisions made today. This interactive session helps tweens, teens, and parents explore how everyday choices, habits, and outside influences shape future financial confidence and independence. Participants will gain practical strategies and real-world tools to help young people build healthy money habits, make thoughtful financial choices, and create a strong foundation for lifelong financial success. Taught by Certified Financial Education Instructor Donna Cirillo. Parents/Guardians are welcome to join their teens and tweens for this program.
Thursday July 16th 7:00-8:00pm Smart Spending, Saving & Budgeting Decisions for Tweens and Teens
Tweens and teens make money decisions every day, from spending on entertainment and trends to saving for future goals. This interactive session introduces practical strategies for earning, budgeting, saving, and spending wisely in a relatable and engaging way. Participants will learn decision-making strategies to manage money confidently, avoid common financial pitfalls, and develop smart financial behaviors that support long-term success. Taught by Certified Financial Education Instructor Donna Cirillo.
Tuesday July 21st 7:00-8:00pm Smart Decisions for the Future: Foundations for Financial Success for Tweens and Teens
As tweens and teens prepare for greater independence, understanding long-term financial decision-making becomes increasingly important. This interactive session introduces foundational concepts such as borrowing, debt, and simple wealth-building habits while helping students connect today’s financial behaviors to future opportunities. Participants will leave with practical tools to make smarter financial decisions, build confidence with money, and begin creating a strong financial foundation for the future. Taught by Certified Financial Education Instructor Donna Cirillo.
Register here by date, starting June 16th
Game Nights!
Bring your friends to the library, participate in some fun games and challenges, and eat lots of snacks!
Register here, by date: https://emmaclark.librarycalendar.com/events/month?age_groups%5B3%5D=3
- Sunday May 24th, 2:00-3:30pm: Nintendo Switch 2 Tournament
- Sunday June 28th, 3:00-4:00pm: Trivia
- Saturday July 18th, 6:00-7:30pm (Middle Schoolers), 8:30-10:00pm (High Schoolers): After Hours: Laser Tag at the Library
- Monday July 20th, 5:00-6:00pm: Music Bingo
- Saturday July 25th, 2:00-3:30pm: Nintendo Switch 2 Tournament
- Sunday July 26th, 11:00am-12:00pm: Trivia
- Monday August 10th, 4:00-5:00pm: Trivia
- Saturday August 15th, 2:00-3:30pm: Nintendo Switch 2 Tournament
- Wednesday August 19th, 5:00-6:00pm: Uno Battle
- Friday August 21st-Sunday August 23rd, various times: Escape the Library: The Archives (escape room experience)
New Resource for Parents & Caregivers
Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary All Year
Teen Transcribers
Do you fancy yourself an amateur historian? Can you read script like a pro? The Emma S. Clark Memorial Library needs your help! As Suffolk County’s oldest public library in terms of continuous community service from its original location, we are actively preserving our history and are in the process of transcribing many handwritten documents from as early as the 1890s. We are looking for skilled, dedicated teens and tweens to decipher and transcribe these documents for posterity.
In order to assemble a group of transcribers who can do truly beneficial work deciphering these historical documents, interested teens and tweens (grades 6-12) will be required to take a Transcribing Test at the Library, prior to being added to the roster of Teen Transcribers. Tests will be scheduled on an as needed basis; there will be several more opportunities to take the Test if you cannot make the first available date. The Test will take about 1 hour and consist of 6 excerpts of different handwriting and typeface that represent the contents of the majority of the documents Teen Transcribers would be working with. Teens and tweens who can transcribe the texts with an accuracy rate of 80% or more will qualify to join the Teen Transcribers team! Test takers will earn 1 hour of community service credit for taking the Transcribing Test, even if they do not qualify to become Teen Transcribers.
Teen Transcribers will be scheduled to come into the Library on an as needed basis, for up to 3 hours at a time. They will work on PDF photocopies of original historical documents, transcribing them into searchable documents on our computers in the Tech Center. Transcribing sessions will be scheduled based on the availability of the Library Staff involved in this project and will vary in days of the week and times. Teen Transcribers will be emailed dates and times for Transcribing sessions, as they are scheduled. Teen Transcribers will earn community service credit for their efforts.
This opportunity to be a part of preserving history will last as long as it is needed; once everything we are archiving is transcribed, the library will retire the team, with endless thanks for their hard work!