Throughout the day on Monday, New Year's Eve was being celebrated all around the world. Kids at the Chabot Space & Science Center got educated on just that fact Monday morning.

With the drop of hundreds of balloons at 11 a.m., they celebrated the stroke of midnight in Russia. Chabot also celebrated strokes of midnight around the world at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Kids count down and catch colorful balloons as they drop from the ceiling to receive a special prize.

"We started this when we first opened, so about 13 years ago," said Chabot Visitor Experience Manager Samuel Aguayo. "We started with a balloon drop at 4 p.m., because that was Greenwich Mean Time, so that’s the official New Year for astronomers."

Chabot Space & Science Center is located in the Oakland Hills just off Highway 13 in Oakland, California. A Smithsonian affiliate, Chabot is an educational science center whose mission is to educate students of all ages about planet Earth and the Universe.