know what would they do it would have been all about yeah well like kind of the name were all about science specifically science and richmond and our catch line is that we're looking to spark imagination through learning so there's lots of different types of science there's lots of different ways to reach kids so that's what we try to do is we give an introductory level of science in richmond and we wrap it in a very entertaining  way so if you think of like a character of like a mad scientist it's someone who's you know very entertaining and very fun character for kids to follow you know if you do seven hours and you do the public schools or private schools ready or even even some of the preschools apparently as well yeah you know in addition to the science in addition to the to the to the seminars you also have afterschool programs little bit of everything there's yeah really any way that we can get out there in front of kids you mentioned special events last month being october october we did a ton of hello in the vents as you can imagine i actually dressed up as this is h with my daughter because it's like i said it's a fun character you know that kids will focus it on and then you can you can squeeze that learning in there so yeah people had us in to do events we're doing a bunch of events during the winter  in most of the locations franchised but the belmont location is owned actually owned by the canadian company itself yes it's very unique mad science is is a franchise business but we twenty five countries on five continents it's really yeah it's a pretty impressive group and and we've got one of the premier locations right here in right here in belmont so what you're located right now you have have some people who are in graduate school right now i do have a couple of science teachers who are retired but they they have recently retired and they really miss the classroom and they like the the freeness to be able to come in and cyclical so we're in the school year now so we're doing a lot of afterschool programs as i mention we just had halloween so we did a lot of halloween special events next week being right before the thanksgiving break we're going to be doing a lot of assemblies in schools and we come in and just kind of liven it up for about an hour to show the kids a lot of fun like a little taste of science and we take it very entertaining we'll be doing some school break programs over the winter break in february break so we keep it going all year long and how does it work for example as a summer camp i mean does somebody go to show up for a week or for a day or yeah how do you actually go to yeah we go to  all the i mean when we moved to before we moved to belmont i should say we did not have a storefront so we were exclusively going out to summer camps a lot of libraries a lot of preschools in the summer and in school breaks  this upcoming year we're looking to do a bunch of school bake programs we do all kinds of things we do a presentation that will go and do like like we do the assemblies at the schools will do an assembly at the camp so they can gather  zoo ology physical science so deal with forces magnetism we have a whole unit on magnetism one of our most favorite i think it's our instructors favorite to perform but it's also very popular with the kids is using ice and talking about different states of matter and things like that there's really the whole world around us is all science so there's so many different topics that you can do and i once worked for a company that has a lot of experimentation rooted in the scientific method for getting things right so we talk about that in all of our programs and you'll get stories kids will tell you anything so we get a lot of feedback from kids about things that they've experienced and  especially you know from the parties that we do with a lot of kids in belmont we hear from them and they will tell us you know as as if they're the expert you know some great things so those belmont teachers are doing pretty good renting the space so it's three hundred and fifty dollars for an hour and a half party are and we still do this business where we go out to people's homes because sometimes people just want to have a few people over they want to add some entertainment that they don't   so we're one of the few companies that can actually you know we use their logo busy and we actually send our our president and our vice president get to go to space camp every single  and they get to come nasa will actually come to our annual conferences and talk to us about what's going on and then we can pass that information directly on to kids that are interested in the space program and obviously that's something that we want to promote but yeah any time you can make something fly kids like it a lot so we have we have some school break programs we have some after school programs where we talk about aerodynamics we talk about for velocity and then of course fun add on which we can't do at our location just because we're by a busy road here in the center of town but we can do rocket we can launch rockets and the child gets to keep the rocket a fterwards it's always fun to watch really it's really well yes depends on how it lasts but yeah there's there's a little engine that goes in the rocket and then it goes up in the top pops off and these are things that that you know parents can purchase people can purchase on their own but you know we just we facilitate it and we talk about the science behind yeah and what about things like with drones no i mean that's going to be a whole other area yes yes so we do we have a we have another workshop specifically on robots hall radical robots and i one thing that i would like to mention too is that there is a trend now in science to to shift completely to like the tech field and so i think that mad science has done a really good job of balancing all of the science and not just the trending like tech is that such a huge industry right now but the cool thing is that like biology chemistry electronics all of those areas that we touch directly links with like coding computers when you can and you you would have programs for any of those yeah and i was growing up i actually when i when i graduated college i was actually a history teacher but my passion was science i loved watching like the bill guys are there was a show called beekmans world in the ninety's and that really i think encompasses what mad science is all about it's just a taste of science and a lot of different areas but the reason why we're mad scientists is because we're so excited and we're so animated when we give these performances now how many different there's about one hundred and seventy dollars around and around the whole world and growing all the time right and a lot of the world leaders in a lot of these areas where you know are belmont residents but yeah we have a lot of parents that sign their kids up for programs that either work at one of the universities or one of the scientific labs or corporations in the area so i think if i remember from my selectman days that i think sixty five percent of the people in belmont over the age of twenty five have a four year college degree  getting longer and yeah yeah so i'm a typical week i would say i would say we're doing anywhere between eight to ten birthday parties on the weekend so if you figure you know between house and out house like the average is so those very i mean you could you could get fifty kids you could get two hundred and fifty kids in front of them so we're reaching thousands of kids each week because that doesn't even include our afterschool programs right now we're doing thirty not just in belmont but surrounding towns were when i've talked to a lot of people there like a whole i know that i've actually i hired some party hosts in town here who come in and they help out the parents at our party and they've had they had a mad science birthday party when they were in elementary school