2025 Light Up The Town Registration is LIVE

The Children’s Discovery Museum with support from CTB Electronics is hosting a city-wide light celebration!  This is the great tradition’s 5th year.  Happy 5 years to everyone.   

The Light up the town competition is open to residents and businesses of Waterville and its neighboring communities.  Waterville, Winslow, Benton, Fairfield, Oakland, Sidney and Vassalboro.

This year it is free to enter.  However, we strongly encourage you all to get into the spirit of giving.  The Children’s Discovery Museum does great work in the local area and I encourage all of you who participate to please send a donation online to the Children’s Discovery Museum.
All donations are tax deductible.
Or donations can be made payable to “Children’s Discovery Museum” Please send your donation to:   Children’s Discovery Museum (L.U.T.T.),  7 Eustis Pkwy, Waterville, ME 04901.
L.U.T.T. standing for Light up the town.

COMPETITION RULES:

Businesses and individuals decorate their properties with as many lights as possible. The registered parties will be part of a city-wide map for members of the community to drive or walk by each location to admire the decorations.Once you register, you are responsible for decorating your property with as many lights and decorations as possible. The more lights the better! Once we have gathered all entries, we will compile a Light Up The Town map to distribute to the community. Please have your light display ready for November 28th, 2025(aka Black Friday), and keep your lights up all season long!

Categories. 

We will be judging the event in three categories this year.  Business, Residential and Syncronized Residential.  1st 2nd and 3rd place prizes will be handed out for all 3 categories and announced in December.

The Map.

CTB Electronics will generate a community map which will be posted for download.  We will also promote with the map on various social media platforms.  Such as Facebook.   The map for general viewing by the community so it is important that your displays are on from Black Friday to Christmas.

Judging.   

Judging will be handled by kids registered to Scouting America.  How better to do this than kids.  Judging will be between December 9th and December 22nd.

Businesses.

We are going to allow you folks to do displays inside, outside or both.  We understand that you may or may not have a large storefront and we want your participation.  1st – 3rd place prizes are the ever coveted Light up the town mini blow form trophies that you can display in your business windows.
Businesses, are you interested in helping to support the Light up the Town competition with a prize donation?  Please add that in your answers.  This year to help support our businesses we are allowing businesses to donate to the prize pool for the Residential and Synchronized categories.

Residents.

For all of you, we want only Outside displays.  1st -3rd place prizes are electronics donated by CTB Electronics.  Last year CTB Electronics gave away a Flat Screen TV to first place, a Sound System sound bar for 2nd place and a remote controlled drone for 3rd.  This years prizes will be a surprise.

Synchronized Residents.  (New category this year).  

Displays that are synchronized to music have become somewhat popular and we wish to encourage these types of displays.  To be fair we are breaking off this into it’s own category.  With that we recognize that these system require lots of flashing lights timed to music with a short distance low wattage FM transmitter.
Synchronized Display with low wattage, short distance Radio transmitters will need to have it’s radio frequency registered with us this year.  We would like to know if you are going to use them in your display for the two reasons.  The first is we would like to make sure that you are not transmitting on other radio stations in the competition or other radio stations in general.  Chris can help you with this if you run into problems.  The second reason is we will put your radio station frequency on the map so people going through these neighborhoods can tune into your broadcast.  Prizes will also be given out for 1st place through 3rd place.  Last year, Chris hand built/soldered battery operated flashing LED Christmas tree’s as trophies for 1st through 3rd place.  This years prizes will be a surprise.

We encourage everyone with holiday spirit to participate!Thank you for participating and we hope that you have fun!

If you have any questions, please contact Chris at circleofone555@hotmail.com.

Thank you to CTB Electronics for helping to make this event possible!
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