11,875
The New Year’s Eve ball is 12 feet in diameter, and weighs 11,875 pounds.
1904
The first New Years celebration in Times Square occurred in 1904, and was attended by more than 200,000 people.
45%
While 45% of all Americans make resolutions, 25% of them give up on their resolutions by the second week of January. The top resolutions are: to lose weight, get organized, to spend less and save more, to stay fit and healthy, and to quit smoking.
360,000,000
Americans drink close to 360 million glasses of sparkling wine on December 31, and January 1 alone.
479,651
Dubai was home to the largest fireworks display in history on New Year’s Eve 2014. The history-making performance saw 479,651 shells fired in just six minutes on New Year’s Eve, at a rate of almost 80K shells per minute and 1,332 fireworks per second.
![Junior Venti Neaderhiser and senior Dylan Paflas work on their robot March 21 in Room C. The robotics team worked on their robot, Fred, to prepare for the FRC Worlds competition. “I was working with the bumpers on our robot that protect [the] frame [for] when we hit or bump into something,” Neaderhiseri said. “We have put a lot of work into building and coding the robot and have run into many difficulties but we have overcome every issue.” photo by Jack Pischke](https://smnw.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/JPischkeRoboticsteam-7-1-1200x795.jpg)
