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Some students are working outside to make a park look like new.

Kids from the Cook Park summer program, joined "Ready, Set, Achieve", and other Siouxland kids, to repaint a building in Cook Park on Thursday.

The group spent time refinishing the peeling surface.

The Cook Park summer program serves kids from all parts of the city, who are in 4th, 5th and 6th grades.

Typically, the kids go on field trips, do community projects, learn life skills, and have a lot of fun.

"We've been here since eight o'clock painting the building and once some other kids got here we started doing games," Tanner Bonnewell, a student helper said.

"I think it's good to have them outside. You know, a lot of kids don't want to be out in the elements anymore, they want to just stay inside in the air conditioning. It gets them out here to do something for the community, gets them involved, gets them doing stuff they've probably never done," said Issa Ford, student supervisor.

Friday is the last day of the annual, eight-week program.