A less spooky Halloween
The Science East science centre, hosted a low scare haunt the weekend before Halloween. Children of all ages were invited to take part in the hands on haunt.
This was the seventh year that they held the haunt. The reason it began was because the local Engineers and geoscientists of New Brunswick group had asked for an event that gave children something to enjoy during Halloween since the adults had a haunted house.
Counting bats, holding and examining cow intestines, and learning about electric currents were some of the events held for children. Lieff Salonius is the communications director of East Coast Science who helped create the haunt for the centre.
“The orientation of the building is different than it normally is. So, people follow the monster feet through the building and we have special guests like let’s talk science, Maritime forestry technology Centre all sort of stem based organizations,” said Salonius. The organizations were brought on site in connection with the Centre so they could bring their displays for more learning opportunities.
Ann Timmermans was one of the guests invited from the Quartermain Earth Science Centre who had a table set up to teach about moon rocks. Timmerman thinks its super important to be hands on and that being invited to events like this is crucial to help others learn.
“I think children even adults learn best when we explore. When we’re left alone to touch, to smell, to experiment and this place is all about learning by discovery, and so everything is hands on, let’s discover,” said Timmerman.
The Centre seen many come through their doors over the two-day haunt and hoped to see as many as they did last year. “Last year in 2018 we had 1,110 people here over two days, so it’s a pretty big event. We do it as a low scare so there’s noting too terrifying for the kids its more mystery and illusion, good nice low lighting and lots of fun activities.” said Salonius.
With fun, mystery and science mixed in the haunt they hope to make science fun and interesting for future generations.
They hope to continue this haunt so they can educate kids on the science around them, and this is one fun way to get them interested.
