{"id":164167,"date":"2026-02-21T22:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164167\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T22:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:04:18","slug":"teen-driver-challenge-car-show-returns-to-kissimmee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164167\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Driver Challenge car show returns to Kissimmee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KISSIMMEE, Fla. \u2014 If you dig custom cars, live music, and K-9 demos, then round up the family for six hours of community gathering.<\/p>\n<p>1. \u201cTeen Driver Challenge: Car and Truck Show\u201d is back for its 5th year at The Promenade at Sunset Walk in Kissimmee.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 The community event is connecting kids and teens with their law enforcement heroes. The Osceola Sheriff\u2019s Office is teaming up with the Promenade at Sunset Walk to bring out even more stuff kids might find cool \u2014 SWAT vehicles, a low helicopter flyover, K9 agility, fire &amp; rescue vehicles, and more.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 Osceola County Sheriff Chris Blackmon says this annual event helps establish relationships between deputies and the kiddos. \u201cAnd it let them see that we are grandfathers, fathers, brothers, mothers, sisters,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We all are just humans. We wear a uniform every day, but we\u2019re just human beings, just like them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Festivities are from 2 \u2013 8 p.m. on Saturday at the Promenade at Sunset Walk. Admission is free, but proceeds from the car show registrants benefit the Teen Driver Challenge \u2013 a 10-hour course that\u2019s free for young drivers. Its goal is to arm our kids will skills to best avoid a car accident.<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0 There are a few dates coming up for the Teen Driver sessions, starting next Saturday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osceolasheriff.org\/crime-prevention\/resources\/youth-programs\/teen-driver-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Here\u2019s the link to get started.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KISSIMMEE, Fla. \u2014 If you dig custom cars, live music, and K-9 demos, then round up the family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4093,115,4094,7149,139,141,140,1976,835],"class_list":["post-164167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-allison-walker","tag-news","tag-on-the-town","tag-on-the-town-app","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-osceola-county","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}