By Lynn Petry
lynn.petry@newsday.com
The Town of Huntington was all set to extend a two-year-old contract with a Woodmere firm that conducts preschool science programs for children ages 3-4, until they found out that the owners of Mad Science of Long Island were no longer interested in participating.
According to Claudio Superville, co-owner of Mad Science, they opted out of the renewal because, “there hasn’t been a good response and it’s not worth going through all the paperwork.” He stated that last year’s program had five or six children attending the program that focuses on workshops on air, colors, dinosaurs, measuring, mixtures, shapes and more. The program, which was held on Saturday mornings, had up to 15 participants prior to last year.
Don McKay, Huntington’s director of the Department of Parks and Recreation, said, “there was a lack of interest for this science program from the public and the numbers of attendees dropped off.”
McKay said that there’s a challenge to meet the recreational needs of all the town's residents and he is constantly striving to provide programs and services to satisfy that need. According to McKay, “if there’s a future need from the public for this program, it will be reinstated.”
The town board had voted to extend the contract just last week.
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Too bad, my son would have loved it-BUT, despite librarians and teachers knowing my son loves science noone actually plugged the program. A little marketing to public libraries and the schools would have been nice.