Join us for the 20th Year Anniversary of the Kokomo Downtown's New Year's Eve Ball Drop! Celebrate the closing of one year and the beginning of another! Come early to listen and dance to the music from the DJ, and eat a late night dinner from The Local BBQ food truck! At midnight the beautiful multi-colored, solar-powered, New York-style 32,000-bulb Ball created by the Kokomo High School's TechnoKats Robotics team will drop and the breath-taking fireworks will begin!
History of our lighted ball drop:
• 1998: The downtown association invited the TechnoKats to make a New York-style lighted ball to lower at midnight from the roof of Kokomo’s tallest building — the six-story Armstrong Landon building.
• 2004: A neon sign indicating the new year was installed at the bottom of the descent track.
• 2005: A second-generation lighted ball was designed and built. It contained more than 30,000 LEDs in 240 separate triangular panels, with each controllable to produce more than 4,000 different colors. It contains 60 individual microprocessors with a main computer to execute the colors and animated patterns. It remains in use today.
• 2008: A countdown clock was added so event guests could synchronize their countdown.
• 2012: The ball started using solar power donated by Green Alternatives Inc.
• 2015: Lights rewired to allow for more intricate designs and control of the patterns across the entire ball surface.
Thank you to our sponsors:
AndyMark, Inc
First Farmers Bank and Trust
Green Alternatives
Huston Electric
Sunday Dec 31, 2017 Monday Jan 1, 2018
Sunday, December 31st - 10:30pm - 12:00am - January 1, 2018!
Main and Sycamore - in front of courthouse!
No cost.