• 4 tickets to see Sesame Street Live on one of the following dates – July 23, 24, 25, 2010
• 4 Capital Ex gate admission passes
• 2 ride-all-day passes

You can visit Edmonton Journal web site to get the contest rules and enter the contest. The deadline to enter the contest is this Sunday, July 18^th.

The Fresh Beat band is a musical quartet.  Shout, Kiki, Twist, and Marina are skilled in several different musical instruments including the violin, drums, keyboard, and guitar.  The band appeals to their preschool audiences with fun music and dances.  You can watch the Fresh Beat Band weekly on Nick Jr.

Sesame Place is a fun theme park that has rides and play areas that feature Elmo, Zoe, Super Grover, Abby Cadabby, Count, Big Bird,Rosita and many of the Sesame Street friends.  Throughout the year there are many different live shows that feature Sesame Street characters and guests like the Fresh Beat Band.

Sesame Street: Cookie's Counting Carnival

Sesame Street: Elmo’s A-to-Zoo Adventure

This fall two Sesame Street games will be released for the Wii gaming system. The first, Sesame Street: Elmo’s A-to-Zoo Adventure has Elmo and Zoe going exploring around the zoo while learning literacy concepts. In the second game, Sesame Street: Cookie’s Counting Carnival, Cookie Monster and Big Bird have fun teaching kids early math skills. In addition to being available for Nintendo Wii, both games will also be available for the Nintendo DS and PC. 

Believing that the Nintendo Wii controller may be too difficult for your children to use, each of the games come packaged with a Wii game play helper. The gameplay helper is a soft fuzzy covering that covers unnecessary buttons on the Wii remote, while making it easy to grip. Sesame Street: Elmo’s A-to-Zoo Adventure will come with a furry red gameplay helper with an Elmo face. Sesame Street: Cookie’s Counting Carnival has its own gameplay helper that, instead of being red with an Elmo face ,is blue with a Cookie Monster face. These gameplay helpers are used to make playing the games on the Wii much easier. To make playing the Sesame Street games easier on the Nintendo DS, a larger stylus is included with the Nintendo DS version of the games. 

Sesame Street: Elmo’s A-to-Zoo Adventure gameplay helper

Sesame Street: Cookie's Counting Carnival gameplay helper

Sesame Street: Elmo’s A-to-Zoo Adventure 

and Sesame Street: Cookie’s Counting Carnival are both projected to be available October 2010.

The night was a celebration of the work Sesame Street has made to help families in and out of the military. Elmo and Robin Roberts, from ABCs Good Morning America emceed the event. There was also a special performance from John Legend, who had many Sesame Street friends as his back-up singers. Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Cookie Monster, Telly Monster, Rosita, Zoe and Grover joined Legend in the performance of “Lean on Me.”

Other Nominations are:

• Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design/Styling
• Outstanding Directing in a Children’s Series
• Outstanding Achievement in Multiple Camera Editing
• Outstanding Achievement in Main Title and Graphic Design
• Outstanding Original Song-Children’s and Animation
• Outstanding Achievement in Technical Direction/Electronic Camera/Video Control
• Outstanding Writing in a Children’s Series
• Outstanding Preschool Series
• Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation