Saskatchewan Science Centre celebrates early New Year's with a bang

Sask. Science Centre holds annual NYE event WATCH: The Saskatchewan Science Centre held their annual Noon Year’s Eve event on Tuesday.

Noon Year's Eve returned to the Saskatchewan Science Centre on Tuesday.

Ryan Holota, chief operating officer for the science centre said the event is one of the best days of the year at the building.

"It's your chance to celebrate the new year at noon. So maybe you don't want to stay up really late, or maybe you have other plans in the evening then you still want to do something with the kids and maybe grandma, grandpa or whatever, so you come to the science centre,” he explained.

This annual event featured programming throughout the day for anyone looking to spend their New Year's Eve learning something new.

"The energy is always really great. It's a busy day. So that's always makes it a little bit more exciting too. And people are just always just really receptive and excited to learn about science, which is of course, what we're here for," Holota said.

The main attraction of the day is "The Big Bang Show” which is presented once a year, specifically for this day.

"The Big Bang Show is our biggest and, in my opinion, our best stage show that we do all year long. It's made specially for the New Year's Eve event that we do here on December 31st. Every year we curate it to be a little bit different," Jesse Searcy, director of educational programming for the Saskatchewan Science Centre said.

The show draws in quite a crowd, with many people attending on an annual basis.

"We work on it for months. Obviously, we take the best of the best of all of the things that we do throughout the rest of the year. We put them all together into one day,” Holota said.

The science centre always aims to inspire an interest in science. As the host of “The Big Bang Show,” Searcy aims to keep that interest alive in those who spent their time at the science centre.

"When I was a kid and I came here, this show and other things that we do and kind of like planted a seed. And it's something that's really special and magical in a way. So I think people that come back for Noon Year's Eve, even come to the show year after year, they're coming to see like that thing that got them really interested when they first came here,” he said.