Warren County Hot Air Balloon Festival: Area 57

Area 57 is all about tech and aviation.

Area 57 will also feature combat robots, organized by the newly formed Garden State Combat Robotics League.

Visit Moon Base: Launch Pad 57 and build a rocket. Rocket scientist Henry Skirbst will help your child build one of three style rockets, then take to the launch field to see who can fire the furthest.

​Time travel with Autocades mobile arcade and their space and science-fiction themed classics. Blast space bugs in Galaga, stop the alien invasion in Defender, avoid the assault in Asteroids, and take down the Death Star on the Atari Star Wars space shooter with its iconic vector graphics and learn the ways of the Jedi on the Star Wars video pinball machine. ($10 wristband to play, $20 family pack of parents and one child.)

​See the hot air balloons, and learn How a Balloon Works with RE/MAX. There will be a handicap-accessible basket, and walk inside a real hot air balloon (weather permitting). Check out suspected alien Fred G Monster special shape hot air balloon, and tethered rides, as weather allows.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Warren Community College has been building a nationally acclaimed Drone/Robotics/AI program – all about unmanned vehicles that include land, sea and sky. WarrenUAS affords students the opportunity to complete certification programs, obtain their Part 107 Commercial Drone Pilot license, get a solid associate’s degree and continue further degrees at top schools like Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.