Hello, Michigan Librarians! Your library is invited to participate in the 10th state-wide MiLibraryQuest for teens. The short version: The Quest provides a free, easy-for-you virtual event for your teens this summer! Sign-up: Libraries can sign up to participate at https://bit.ly/Quest2026SignUp by May 15 (to participate) or by May 1 (if you’d also like a clue or hint on your website). The details: This summer’s Quest will provide a series of puzzles for teens to solve as they explore the rivalry between dinosaurs and humans in Michigan. This story will tie in with the CSLP’s theme of Unearth a Story - and be a fun Quest regardless of your summer theme! New this year: The story for this summer's Quest is being created by teens at Dexter District Library and Milan Public Library. They are enthusiastically designing an enemies to friends journey with humans and dinosaurs. An alien is manipulating each group to end up in Lansing for a disco dance party where they'll become friends, bonding over their shared love of music and books. The humans will travel from their home in the UP while the dinosaurs are traveling from their home in Southeast MI. The Quest will take the form of a virtual escape room with various stages requiring teens to solve puzzles (codes, logic, math, etc.) to progress from one stage to the next. Teens can participate in the Quest independently online. If you would like to incorporate an in-person program, that option is available. It is SUPER easy for a library to participate. You only need to publicize the event to your teens (using promotional materials we have designed or your own) and award a prize (of your choice - very small is fine!) to at least one participant from your library. Recent Quests have had between 110 and 175 teens from across the state submit entries. Details: This year’s Quest will begin on July 1 and end on July 31. All you have to do as a participating library is: - Promote the event to your teens (Promotional templates will be provided by the Quest team.) - Award at least one prize to a teen from your library who completes the Quest (The prize can be as small or as big as you choose. Examples of what other libraries have awarded are in #8 of our FAQs here: https://bit.ly/SummerQuest2026FAQs.) OPTIONAL things your library can do: - OPTIONAL: If you would like to have a part of the Quest on your website, you can sign up to have a hint on your library’s website. - OPTIONAL: You can host an in-person program for teens to solve the Quest. Libraries can sign up to participate here(https://bit.ly/Quest2026SignUp) by May 15 (to participate) or by May 1 (if you’d also like a clue or hint on your website). Teens will: - Access the Quest on the MiLibraryQuest website. - Complete the Quest (on their own or with friends) either online or in-person at a library. - As they complete each stage of the Quest, fill out the online form provided by the Quest to enter to win a prize from their local library. Additional information is in the FAQs here: https://bit.ly/SummerQuest2026FAQs If your library would like to participate, please sign up by May 15 (May 1, if you’d like to have a clue or hint on your website) here: https://bit.ly/Quest2026SignUp If you have any questions, please email MiLibraryQuest@gmail.com. A little history: Following library closures in spring 2020 and a shift to virtual programming, a group of librarians from throughout the state began meeting to collaborate on virtual teen programming. We created MiLibraryQuest, a virtual scavenger hunt, for all teens throughout the state as a summer event. We have now offered eight Quests with more than one-fourth of Michigan libraries systems and hundreds of teens participating. Current Quests maintain the virtual option and include in-person options now that we are back to in-person programs at our libraries. We hope you will be a part of MiLibraryQuest this summer! The Quest Team milibraryquest@gmail.com Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/MiLibrary-Quest-101788845136786> ~ Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/milibraryquest/> ~ Website <https://milibraryquest.wixsite.com/quest1>