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Calvert Vaux Park - 8:15 PM Pick
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Camp - 11:00 AM
Children's Museum of Manhattan - various times Pick
Camp - 11:00 AM
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Camp - 11:00 AM
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Virtual Balloon Drop New Year Celebration
Oakland's Chabot Space & Science Center celebrates the "noon year" with STEM activities and a festive balloon drop.
Kids can ring in the New Year without staying up past bedtime at this virtual event.
Attendees receive a special STEM Kit, filled with supplies for activities to be done the celebration.Hands-on activities are led by Chabot's Galaxy Explorers, along with an activity led by the Nano@Stanford and Stanford XLab teams. Activities include materials to make your own catapult, planet models, a magnetic experiment and a balloon drop engineering challenge.
The party ends with a special New Year drink recipe activity for the whole family and a dance party countdown to ring in 2021. Not to mention hundreds of colorful, bio-degradable balloons raining down from above!
The party takes place via Zoom. Registration for members is open now. Registration for non-members opens December 1.
11am Pacific, 1pm Central, 2pm Eastern