Through the Years
1966
Joan Ganz Cooney does a feasibility study on children and television for the
Carnegie Corporation.
1967
Joan Ganz Cooney becomes a television consultant to Carnegie and the decision is
made to pursue a television project for preschool children.
1968
Press conference announcing establishment of Children’s Television Workshop with
Joan Ganz Cooney serving as Executive Director.
1969
The Muppets™ and Jim Henson are signed.
Sesame Street premieres on November 10 on NET (the predecessor to PBS) and
several commercial stations including WPIX in New York. Two nights earlier a
preview of the series is shown in prime time on the NBC network.
James Earl Jones makes the first celebrity guest appearance on the show.
1970
Big Bird appears on the cover of Time.
Sesame Street receives the George Foster Peabody Award, three Emmys and the
Prix Jeunesse award.
The first Sesame Street original cast album is released on Columbia Records. It wins
a Grammy award.
Children’s Television Workshop opens field offices in inner-city and rural areas
across the country.
The Sesame Street cast tours 14 cities to encourage viewership by children and their
parents.
Sesame Street magazine debuts.
1971
Maria and Luis bring bilingual education to their Fix-It Shop.
Snuffleupagus makes his Sesame Street debut. He teaches adults that
encouragement is important for children.
1972
Count von Count first appears on Sesame Street.
Linda Bove, a founding member of the National Theater of the Deaf, teaches sign
language.
The first international Sesame Street co-production Vila Sésamo debuts in Brazil.
Mexico’s Sesame Street co-production, Plaza Sésamo, premieres and features
Abelardo, a parrot who loves to solve problems and learn new things. Plaza Sésamo
focuses on literacy, diversity and gender equity.
1973
Sesamstrasse, the German Sesame Street co-production, debuts and emphasizes
the importance of creative play, the value of respect for self and others and
appreciating different environments.
Sesame Street Canada debuts.
Biff and Sully, construction workers who simplify hard concepts, are Sesame Street’s
newest Muppets™.
1974
Sesame Street airs on 250 American television stations and in 41 countries
worldwide.
Harvard University’s Gerald Lesser, a CTW educational advisor, publishes Children
and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street.
Sesame Street’s float makes its first appearance in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day
Parade.
1975
The Smithsonian Institute exhibits Bert and Ernie.
1976
Sesamstraat, The Netherlands’ co-production of Sesame Street, premieres and
highlights important social and emotional lessons for Dutch children.
Olivia, a photographer, moves to Sesame Street and is a new role model for girls.
1977
A Kermit the Frog balloon is added to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Sesame Street travels to Hawaii to help children learn about and appreciate
differences and diversity among people.
1978
Barkley the Dog joins the cast of Sesame Street.
Sesame Street Fever spoofs the disco craze.
CTW’s Community Education Services division establishes the 10th Sesame Street
center for the children of inmates in the Kirkland, South Carolina prison.
Maria visits her family in Puerto Rico. Six episodes are filmed on location in San
German.
Children learn about ethnic diversity, deafness and sign language, dental care and
exercise. Science segments ask, “What’s alive?” and “What’s inside?”
Big Bird visits the White House to attend a children’s diplomatic holiday reception.
1, Rue Sésame, France’s Sesame Street co-production, premieres with a focus on
poetry, art and music.
1979
Kermit the Frog hosts The Tonight Show.
A Sesame Street co-production in Kuwait, Iftah Ya Simsim, introduces cultural
traditions, legends and history.
Barrio Sésamo (Castilian)/ Barri Sèsam (Catalan) launches in Spain.
1980
Sesame Place theme park opens near Philadelphia.
Sesame Street Live! goes on tour.
1981
School skills, such as taking turns and raising hands, are taught. The role of the
teacher and the structure of a school day are explained, as are such skills as
listening and following directions. Children also learn to identify sounds and
recognize pitch, rhythm, tempo and sound patterns.
Sesame Street co-production Svenska Sesam premieres in Sweden with a curriculum
emphasizing socio-emotional development.
1982
Sesame Street helps children appreciate reading. Using stories, poems, letters, and
newspaper articles, children learn that reading is fun and informative.
1983
Will Lee, who portrayed Mr. Hooper, dies. The decision is made not to replace the
actor or have him move away. Sesame Street curricular experts and scriptwriters
carefully plan how to tell young children about death. The program wins an Emmy
Award.
Big Bird visits China.
Israel’s Sesame Street co-production Rechov Sumsum debuts teaching children
about traditions, heritage and Israeli daily life.
Sesame! a co-production in the Philippines debuts.
1984
Elmo, a curious three and a half-year-old, and the always-worried Telly Monster join
the cast.
1985
Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird is released in movie theaters.
Susan and Gordon adopt Miles [played for several seasons by Roscoe Orman’s
(Gordon’s) real-life son, also named Miles].
1986
Children learn to count to 40. They learn about the concept of zero and about
adding and subtracting numbers larger than 10. They also learn about recognizing
and completing patterns.
1987
Alice Snuffleupagus, Snuffy’s little sister, joins the cast as does Gina, a teenager
who moves to Sesame Street.
1988
Maria and Luis get married.
A Big Bird balloon makes its first appearance in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day
Parade
1989
Sesame Street celebrates its 20th birthday.
Maria and Luis have a baby girl named Gabriela.
Hiroshi, a Japanese art student comes to Sesame Street, introducing another culture
to children.
Rua Sésamo debuts in Portugal.
Turkey’s Susam Sokagi premieres with a focus on building language and number
skills.
1990
Gina graduates from high school. Miles starts kindergarten and Gabriela enters
day care.
First Lady Barbara Bush visits Sesame Street and reads the book Peter’s Chair.
1991
CTW develops the Sesame Street Preschool Education Program (PEP) to help child
care professionals and families enhance learning. PEP reaches out to day care
centers with storybook reading programs.
A Latina Muppet™, Rosita, joins the cast. She often mixes Spanish and English
words together in her sentences.
Big Bird visits Crow children in Montana to learn about Native-American traditions
and respect for family and nature.
Sesam Stasjon, Norway’s Sesame Street co-production debuts with a curriculum
supporting the goals of the Norwegian educational system.
1992
Sesame Street goes on location to visit Navajo, Cherokee and Iroquois Native
Americans.
Research indicates that Sesame Street reaches 92% of Caucasian, Latino and
African-American preschoolers living below the poverty line.
1993
Sesame Street goes “around the corner” (crossing streets can be dangerous without
an adult) and introduces The Furry Arms Hotel, Finders Keepers, Celina’s Dance
Studio and Gina’s Family Day Care Center.
Ruth Buzzi joins cast as Ruthie.
Zoe, a charming three-year-old Muppet™, joins the cast as do humans Angela,
Jamal and their baby Kayla. Children Nathan, Tarah and Carlo also come on
board.
1994
Sesame Street celebrates its 25th birthday.
CTW’s float celebrating Sesame Street’s “Let’s Read and Write” literacy campaign
makes its first appearance in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
First Lady Hillary Clinton discusses healthy habits with Big Bird and Rosita during a
visit to Sesame Street.
Big Bird receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1995
It is estimated that Sesame Street has aired in more than 120 countries.
1996
Rosita, Betty Lou and Zoe start the Girls, Girls, Girls Club.
Polish culture is the focus of the Sesame Street co-production Ulica Sezamkowa that
premieres in Poland.
Canadian co-production Sesame Park debuts.
Ulitsa Sezam, Russia’s adaptation of Sesame Street, airs for the first time
1997
Susan and Gordon look back at Miles’ adoption 11 years ago.
1998
“Elmo’s World” debuts on Sesame Street.
Sesame Street co-production Shara’a Simsim premieres in Palestine.
Rechov Sumsum/Shara'a Simsim, the local Israeli/Palestinian adaptation of Sesame
Street, wins the Japan Foundation President's Prize for international educational
programming.
Zhima Jie, the Chinese version of Sesame Street, debuts on Shanghai TV, and
emphasizes aesthetics and the arts.
1999
Sesame Street marks its 30th birthday.
The feature film, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, debuts in theaters in
October.
Sesame Street wins its 75th Emmy award.
Big Bird is featured on a U.S. postage stamp.
The FOX network special, CinderElmo, airs for the first time in December.
2000
Children’s Television Workshop changes its name to Sesame Workshop to
acknowledge that its mission stretches far beyond the world of television into a wide
variety of interactive media.
Takalani Sesame launches on television and radio in South Africa.
SesameStreet.com is relaunched with a brand new look and added features.
2001
Big Bird’s nest is destroyed in a hurricane and children learn about coping with loss.
A study conducted at the University of Kansas is published that demonstrates
Sesame Street can be an effective tool in increasing children’s school readiness if
they watch regularly.
G is for Growing, a collection of studies on the educational impact of Sesame Street
on children, is published.
Sesame Street Music Works, an initiative promoting the importance of music in child
development, launches with a live webcast.
A new Big Bird balloon premieres at the 75th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
The Egyptian Sesame Street co-production, Alam Simsim, debuts and features
Khokha, a four-year-old Muppet™ girl with a passion for learning. She serves as a
role model for girls.
2002
Four special episodes are produced to indirectly address the September 11 disaster
by helping kids develop strategies for coping with fear, loss, diversity and bullies.
New York City firefighters appear on the show.
Sesame Street premieres a revised format that includes new segments such as
“Journey to Ernie” and the “Spanish Word of the Day.”
Sesame Street’s 4000th episode airs.
Sesame Street wins its 85th Daytime Emmy award.
The recording Elmo and the Orchestra wins Sesame its 10th Grammy award.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan makes an appearance on Sesame
Street to teach the Muppets™ about working together.
Elmo testifies before a House Labor subcommittee about the importance of music
education for children.
Kami, the first HIV-positive Muppet™, debuts on South Africa's co-production
Takalani Sesame.
2003
Two new segments premiere on Sesame Street, ”Global Thingy” and “Global
Grover,” introducing children to the world around them.
First Lady Laura Bush visits Sesame Street and reads a book titled, Wubba Wubba
Woo.
A new Muppet™ is born on Sesame Street, Baby Bear’s sister Curly Bear.
Sesame Workshop releases “Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music,” a
compilation CD that includes classic Sesame Street songs sung by both Muppets™
and celebrities.
Sesame Workshop launches the You Can Ask! initiative, a multi-lingual project to
help children cope with stress and trauma. The materials are provided to mental
health offices, crisis counseling service providers, schools, community agencies and
child-care programs in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Sesame Stories, a television production and outreach initiative for children in the
Middle East, launches in Israel, Palestine and Jordan, promoting respect and
understanding.
2004
Sesame Street season 35 premieres on PBS with a prime time special.
Sesame Street wins its 97th Emmy award.
Sesame Workshop launches “Healthy Habits for Life” an initiative to address the
issue of childhood obesity.
A local Sesame Street educational outreach initiative is launched in Afghanistan to
encourage literacy and numeracy, as well as sharing and cooperation.
Using nature as a thematic springboard for showcasing Japan’s unique cultural
heritage and for conveying educational goals appropriate for Japanese
preschoolers, Sesame Street Japan launches on TV Tokyo.
Takalani Sesame launches a national call-to-action with “talk to me…” a South
African multimedia campaign to promote communication between adults and
children on the crucial subject of HIV and AIDS.
Rruga Sesam (Albanian language) and Ulica Sezam (Serbian language) debut in
Kosovo.
2005
Sesame Street’s 36th season debuts with a focus on encouraging healthy eating and
physical activity, as part of the “Healthy Habits for Life” initiative. The initiative elicits
a tremendous public response to teaching Cookie Monster that “A Cookie is a
Sometimes Food.”
Sesame Street wins its 101st Emmy, earning a place in the Guinness Book of World
Records for the Most Emmy Wins by a Television Series.
Sesame Place celebrates its 25th birthday.
Takalani Sesame’s “talk to me…” campaign is honored with the prestigious Japan
Prize, a George Foster Peabody Award, a Gold Hugo from the Chicago International
Film Festival, the Gold Intermedia-globe from the World Media Festival and the Rose
D’Or Social Awareness award.
5, Rue Sésame premieres in France, featuring regionally produced live action and
animation segments as well as new Muppet™ characters, including an energetic girl
in a wheelchair named Griotte.
Sisimpur, a Sesame Street co-production in Bangladesh, debuts.
Alam Simsim debuts on Arab satellite station Future TV with new regional live action
films from Lebanon and United Arab Emirates, reaching an estimated 280 million
viewers.
Sabai Sabai Sesame, a version of Sesame Street specially adapted for Cambodia,
premieres in that region.
2006
Sesamstraat, The Netherlands’ local adaptation of Sesame Street, celebrates its 35th
anniversary with a series of special events including the naming of a tulip after the
Muppet™ character Purk, and placing Purk’s face on a postage stamp.
A documentary about Sesame Street’s international co-productions, The World
According to Sesame Street, debuts at the Sundance Film Festival.
The Indian co-production Galli Galli Sim Sim debuts in August.
U.S. First Lady Laura Bush tapes a segment for the first season of India’s Galli Galli
Sim Sim.
Sesame Beginnings, a research-based DVD series for parents and young children
under age two that encourages learning through parent-child interactions and
features baby versions of the Muppets™ from Sesame Street, debuts with its first two
titles.
Plaza Sésamo develops a healthy habits initiative in Colombia, commencing
production of live action films from the region that are incorporated in the television
show.
Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who plays the roles of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
on Sesame Street, receives the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences at the 33rd Annual Daytime Emmy®
Awards.
Abby Cadabby, a fairy-in-training, moves to Sesame Street and becomes the first
female Muppet™ to join the show in 13 years. Gina adopts a baby boy from
Guatemala.
Rechov Sumsum returns to the airwaves in Israel with a new season.
Sesame Workshop launches Talk, Listen, Connect: Helping Families During Military
Deployment an initiative designed for military families with children to help them
cope with the feelings, challenges and concerns experienced during various phases
of deployment.
The Muppets™ of Plaza Sésamo visit Colombia for the first time as Sesame
Workshop produces original live action segments for the show’s 11th season.
2007
Garibaldo returns to his nest in Brazil with the launch of a brand new Vila Sesamo
preschool block.
Sesame Workshop announces that the Plaza Sésamo brand now penetrates 100% of
major Latin America markets.
Hikayat Simsim, a co-production in Jordan launches with a focus on teaching basic
skills and Jordanian culture
Sesame Workshop begins implementing a multimedia initiative in Tanzania that
spans television, radio, community outreach platforms and addresses the education
and health needs of children in the region.
One week after its launch, the Sesame Street podcast reaches number one on
iTunes top podcast list.
2008
Sesame Workshop launches Jalan Sesama, presenting basic cognitive and social
skills to the children of Indonesia, while representing the vibrant diversity of the
country’s vast archipelago.
Sesame Tree debuts on BBC Northern Ireland television. This project aims to
encourage children in Northern Ireland to explore and appreciate the world around
them and promote respect and understanding.
Plaza Sésamo celebrates its 35th anniversary and launches an 11th season on
Televisa, Mexico’s terrestrial broadcaster.
Talk, Listen, Connect: Deployments, Homecomings, Changes, the second phase of
the Workshop’s military outreach program launches, helping military families with
young children cope with the effects of deployments, multiple deployments or when
a parent returns home changed due to a combat related injury.
The Sesame Street Experience for Military Families, a free traveling tour, visits 43
military installations across the country.
Sesame Street wins its 118th Emmy Award.
Sesame Street’s 39th season debuts, in hi-definition, with new cast member Leela, a
young Indian-American who embraces her heritage and culture. New regular
segments “Murray Has a Little Lamb,” and “Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures” also
debut.
Sesame Workshop launches a redesigned website www.sesamestreet.org
simultaneously with the premiere of Sesame Street’s 39th season.
Sisimpur launches its 5th season on Bangladesh’s BTV.
Let's Get Ready! Planning Together for Emergencies helps families with young
children between the ages of two and five prepare for an emergency with basic
information and ways in which they can best respond to an emergency and helps
them develop a sense of resilience and self-confidence.
The planetarium show One World, One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure debuts, taking
viewers in China and the U.S. on an exciting discovery of the sun, moon, and stars.
The show and educational outreach initiative is a bi-national collaboration between
Sesame Workshop, Beijing Planetarium, the Adler Planetarium and Liberty Science
Center.
2009
Sesame Workshop partners with USAID and launches Sesame Street Presents: The
Adventures of Kami and Big Bird, an outreach effort to provide resources about HIV
and AIDS to Nigerian children and caregivers.
Coming Home: Military Families Cope with Change airs April 1 on PBS. The special,
tells the stories of service members who return home with injuries, visible and
invisible, and explores the heroic struggles their families face in discovering a new
way of finding a “new normal,” is hosted by Grammy and Golden Globe winner,
Queen Latifah and Elmo, and features Grammy Award winner, John Mayer.
Sesame Workshop launches the Sesame Street Family Connections website to help
military families stay connected and Sesame Rooms in 35 play spaces across the
U.S. for military children.
Sesamgade, a new Sesame Street block premieres in Denmark with original Danish
material and a Danish Elmo.
Sesame Street wins its 122nd Daytime Emmy Award and is honored with a Lifetime
Achievement Emmy from NATAS. SesameStreet.org receives the New Approaches –
Daytime Children’s Emmy.
Families Stand Together airs September 9 on PBS. The special, which documents
real American families who are living through difficult economic conditions and
encourages positive strategies and models behavior for parents and care providers
to support the entire family during insecure times, is hosted by Sesame Street’s
Grover, Chris, Elmo’s family and financial expert Jean Chatzky and parenting and
relationship expert Dr. Joshua Coleman.
Sesame Street celebrates its 40th birthday with the launch of its new season exactly
40 years to the day of its premiere on November 10.
First Lady Michelle Obama plants a garden with Elmo and Big Bird on Sesame
Street.
Sesame Workshop creates a new version of television’s most beloved children’s
series, The Electric Company. The new series is designed to combat the literacy crisis
America’s second graders face.
2010
Everybody’s favorite furry and blue superhero gets his own new segment, “Super
Grover 2.0.”
When Families Grieve airs April 14 on PBS. The special, which tells the stories of
families coping with the death of a parent, as well as strategies that have helped
these families move forward, is hosted by Katie Couric and Elmo, Rosita and Jesse
(Elmo’s cousin).
Sesame Workshop distributes Sesame Street DVDs and live action films aimed to
help deal with the effects of the earthquake to children in Haiti.
SesameStreet.org wins a Peabody Award and a Webby Award for its use of new
media.
The new Shalom Sesame DVD series launches, teaching children about Israeli life
and culture.
Sesame Workshop extends its “Healthy Habits for Life” outreach initiative by
launching Food for Thought: Eating Well on a Budget. This bilingual outreach
program is designed to help support families who have children between the ages
of 2 and 8 and are coping with uncertain or limited access to affordable and
nutritious food.
After 27 years, Big Bird returns to China along with two new friends, Elmo and Lily to
launch Sesame Street’s Big Bird Looks at the World. The series accompanies a new
outreach initiative to provide emergency response and preparedness education for
children and their families in China.
The first Sesame Street app for iPad, The Monster at the End of This Book, launches.
Cookie Monster appears on the December 18th holiday episode of Saturday Night
Live with Jeff Bridges after a successful online campaign, including a viral video.
Two of Sesame Workshop’s digital apps, Elmo’s Monster Maker and Grover’s
Number Special, receive 2010 Parents’ Choice Silver Honors Awards, recognizing the
best material in quality children's media.
2011
Sesame Street returns to New Zealand on channel four.
Sesame Workshop launches the bilingual community engagement initiative For Me,
for You, for Later: First Steps to Spending, Sharing, and Saving encouraging financial
education for all young children between the ages of 3 to 5.
First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden visit Sesame Street in April as part of the
White House's "Joining Forces” initiative and Sesame's Military Families project to
tape PSAs asking all Americans to support our military families.
Sesame Street Road Safety Campaign launches in support of the UN’s Decade of
Action for Road Safety. Three animated PSAs featuring Grover air in Africa, Asia,
Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Sesame Workshop and the Global Road
Safety Partnership jointly developed a Road Safety Education Framework and
educational materials to help children better understand the risks associated with
travel on or near the roads.
Sesame Square launches in Nigeria. The series brings new Muppet friends like Kami
and Zobi, familiar and furry faces like Elmo and Grover, and educational lessons to
children and families across Nigeria.
Sesame Street wins its 138th Emmy Award.
Sim Sim Hamara launches in Pakistan promoting language and numeracy skills,
basic life skills, healthy habits, mutual respect and understanding.
Baghch-e-Simsim (Sesame Garden) launches in Afghanistan with locally produced
live action films, and features dubbed Muppet™ segments in both Dari and Pashtu.
The new series encourages core-competencies like literacy, math and school
readiness, along with a special emphasis on girls’ education, diversity and cultural
awareness for Afghan children.
Sesame Workshop’s The Monster at the End of this Book is named in Babble’s “50
Best iPhone and iPad Apps for Kids of 2011.” The sibling app, Another Monster at the
End of this Book, reaches No. 2 in Top iPad Apps, while both reach No. 1 in Books at
the App Store.
2012
Sesame Workshop launches its revamped website offering a deeper look into its
mission-driven work and international co-productions.
Sesame Workshop launches an oral health initiative Healthy Teeth, Healthy Me in
partnership with Sam’s Club and MetLife Foundation.
The Sesame Street/USO Experience for Military Families unveils a new tour bus to
kick-off an eight-month stateside tour.
Barrio Sésamo: Monstruos Supersanos the Spanish Sesame Street co-production,
debuts on Antena 3 and emphasizes the importance of cardiovascular health, in
partnership with Programa SÍ!, Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, and Dr.
Valentin Fuster’s Fundación SHE.
On July 3rd China’s own Sesame Street’s Big Bird Looks at the World and a new series
entitled Fun Fun Elmo airs in the U.S. on Sinovision.
Sesame Workshop and One Laptop per Child (OLPC) partner to make Sesame Street
content available to children on OLPC’s durable and affordable “XO” brandedlaptops.
Sesame Square the Nigerian co-production of Sesame Street returns to NTA for its
2nd season.
Sesame Workshop kicks off its community engagement initiative: Little Children, Big
Challenges, for military, veteran, and general public families with young children.
This initiative aims to provide the skills and strategies young children need to build
resilience and persevere through day-to-day as well as more serious changes and
transitions.
Dover Publications and Sesame Workshop publish the forthcoming Sesame Street
Simple Science Experiments with Elmo and Friends: Water and Earth, one of the first
books to highlight Sesame Street’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Math) curriculum.
Sesame Workshop partners with MeeGenius, the digital home for children’s books,
to bring six Sesame Street eBook titles to the web, iOS and Android platforms.
Sesame Workshop reaffirms and deepens its commitment to the United Nations
Secretary-General’s Every Woman Every Child movement to mobilize and intensify
global action to improve the health of women and children around the world.
2013
Plaza Sésamo celebrates its 40th anniversary in Latin America in January.
Hikayat Simsim introduces Road Safety as a key goal and objective for its third and
fourth season’s. Children’s Museum Jordan and the producers, Hikayat Simsim, join
forces to continue an initiative that supports early childhood education in Jordan.
Sesame Workshop announces a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to
promote hygiene and sanitation among children and families in high-needs areas in
Bangladesh, India and Nigeria.
According to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, watching
international co-productions of Sesame Street has a positive effect on children’s
learning. The study, led by Dr. Marie-Louise Mares and Dr. Zhongdang Pan, is
presented at the 2013 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child
Development in Seattle.
Sesame Street wins its 153rd Emmy Award.
Ape Entertainment and Sesame Workshop release the first Sesame Street comic
book featuring the cast of the show.
Sesame Workshop partners with Success for All schools in a pilot program to
provide curriculum-based Sesame Street content to preschool children and their
families, starting in September.
Takalani Sesame kicks off five years of new television, radio, digital and mobile
content of the award-winning children’s program in South Africa, debuting on
September 02, 2013.
Sesame Street introduces a layer on Google Earth that provides families an
opportunity to learn about and explore several of the Workshop’s co-productions
through the faces, voices and stories of children from those countries.
Sesame Workshop and CBeebies announce a new Sesame Street international coproduction to air in the U.K.: The Furchester.
The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) announces a partnership with Sesame
Workshop to be an official affiliate of Team USA through the Sochi 2014 Olympic and
Paralympic Winter Games.
Sesame Workshop unveils the bilingual (English/Spanish) initiative, Little Children, Big
Challenges: Incarceration, for families with young children (ages 3–8) who have an
incarcerated parent and continue to develop skills for resilience.
Sesame Workshop, the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation
partner to launch a new community engagement initiative: Sesame Street Explores
National Parks, a multimedia parks experience promoting science learning through
experiences in both national parks and local parks or backyards for children ages 35 and their families and educators.
MetLife Foundation makes a multimillion dollar commitment over five years to
Sesame Workshop to provide financial knowledge and resources to low-income
families with young children around the world.
Elmo, Big Bird, Snuffy, Cookie Monster, Grover and the entire Sesame Street gang
appear on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to perform “Sunny Days” in the show’s
famous classroom instrument video series.
Sesame Workshop creates STEM resource initiative Little Discoverers: Big Fun with
Science, Math and More with support from CA Technologies and the S.D. Bechtel, Jr.
Foundation and the Heising-Simons Foundation.
In response to the wide gap in literacy rates that prevails between children of high
and low-income families, Sesame Workshop partners with the Insurance Industry
Charitable Foundation (IICF) to launch Every Day is a Reading and Writing Day; a
bilingual, digital resource to improve their reading and writing capabilities from an
early age.
2014
A one hour special segment called “Chinese New Year” airs in China with Elmo,
Cookie Monster and Lily chatting with hosts about special traditions and customs.
Sesame Workshop joins forces with Autism Speaks and other like-minded partners
to develop a community engagement initiative to help reduce the stigma
surrounding children with autism.
The PNC Foundation announces a multi-year vocabulary initiative in partnership with
Sesame Workshop: Words Are Here, There, Everywhere, aiming to decrease the
word gap for underserved preschool children.
As Sesame Workshop is selected as an exhibitor for the “Reinvent the Toilet Fair:
India,” new Muppet™ ‘Raya’ is unveiled.
Sesame Workshop launches Sesame Street S’More, a new digital publication for
families and Sesame Street’s first ever interactive magazine app for the iPad.
PBS and Sesame Workshop announce a new 30-minute Sesame Street program will
air in addition to the hour-long show, starting Monday, September 1 on PBS KIDS.
Sesame Street wins its 159th Emmy Award.
Sesame Street hosts its first panel at San Diego International Comic Con.
The Sesame Street/USO Experience for Military Families – the USO’s longest running,
traveling tour reaches a milestone of 500k military family members in
August/September.
Sesame Street launches its 45th season in September.
A new interactive exhibit premieres at the New York Public Library for the
Performing Arts celebrating Sesame Street’s 45th anniversary.