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PBS Fort Wayne Explorer Day

PBS Fort Wayne and area businesses are partnering for our 11th Annual Explorer Day at Parkview Field on Saturday, June 7th for free family fun!

Explorer Day is our annual free event celebrating families, fun, and hands-on learning with partnerships from area businesses, non-profits, and PBS KIDS.

Did we mention it’s FREE?!

Your family will enjoy this fun day packed with educational activities, games, and a chance to meet some real PBS KIDS characters such as Nature Cat and your favorite PBS Fort Wayne Pup, Ryder! With dozens of local businesses and non-profits bringing 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! 


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To celebrate our 50th Anniversary, we are hosting a PBS KIDS Character Breakfast before Explorer Day on June 7th! It begins at at 8:30am at Parkview Field, where you'll enjoy a tasty breakfast buffet AND meet Xavier Riddle, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Rosie from Rosie’s Rules and Jet from Ready Jet Go!  best of all, with your ticket, your child is guaranteed to meet each character during this breakfast. 

Tickets for this special experience are $30 per child and $25.00 per adult. Click on the Button below to reserve your tickets today!


Check out at our Community Partners from last year...

• Fort Wayne Community Schools • 3 Rivers Federal Credit Union • Water Furnace  • OMI Orthodontics  • NIPSCO/NiSource Charitable Foundation • Anthony Wayne Area Council Boy Scouts of America • Bright Point • Children's Autism Center • Citilink • City of Fort Wayne - City Utilities • Crazy Pinz • Fort Wayne Ballet • Junior Achievement of Northeast Indiana • Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana • Mindcap Center • Monica Riecke - Century 21 • Neighborhood Health Clinic • Purdue-Fort Wayne College of Visual & Performing Arts • Purdue Fort Wayne ETCS Outreach Program • SCAN • Soccer Shots • Southwest Montessori Academy • Sport One Parkview Icehouse • The Literacy Alliance • WIC (Neighborhood Health) • Allen County Public Library  • Indiana University Fort Wayne  • Pizza Hut  • Fort Wayne Youththeatre  • Lelah and Bryant Swimming  • Fort Wayne Children's Choir


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.


Thanks to these sponsors for making 2024's Explorer Day possible:
Fort Wayne Community Schools Logo
3 Rivers Federal Credit Union Logo
Water Furnace

Plus...

OMI Orthodontics
NIPSCO-NiSOURCE