Not only did get caregivers get a free catered lunch, baby products and a moment of peace while enjoying free child care for four hours during the county Family Support Center and Partners for Prevention’s annual Community Baby Shower at Chester Municipal Building, their children also enjoyed some diversion activities as well. 

According to Hannah Hebrock of the Chester HCFSC location, child care was a major component of the event, which included plenty of information via a resource fair; diapers and other baby accessories for ages between prenatal and 2, as well as plenty of fun. 

Megan Davis, a nurse educator from WVU Medicine’s Weirton Medical Center, addressed the crowd regarding Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and the vaccination of women when pregnant. 

More than 50 moms signed up for Monday’s event.

Aubree Reed, 8, a third-grade student at Hancock County Schools, and her best pink bunny learn about coding during Monday’s Community Baby Shower at the Chester Municipal Building hosted by Hancock County Family Support Center and the county’s Partners in Prevention. Parents and caregivers for children between prenatal and age 2 attended the annual event. (Photo by Stephanie Ujhelyi)

Zach White, youth development agent with the WVU Extension Office in New Cumberland, was on hand, leading school aged youth in learning about coding and its relationship to Personal Rapid Transit.

The younger tots, if not with their caregivers, were trusted to child care in the FRC’s main office to enjoy dressing in costumes and doing kid things like playing make-believe with their peers. 

White detailed to the nearly a dozen kids age 5 to 10 in attendance at his session how one can provide commands to a driverless train through coding.

After breaking into smaller teams, the participants set up their own PRT trains from kits, utilizing coding via commands on a linked laptop to direct their train’s travels.

Hancock County Schools’ student Jeremy Adams, 9, works on assembling the track for his driverless train Monday morning during a WVU Extension youth development session held during a Community Baby Shower event in Chester. Using laptops, then Adams would use coding to give the vehicle operational commands. (Photo by Stephanie Ujhelyi)

Hancock County toddler Arthur Wilcox holds a dinosaur Monday morning in a littles’ child care area in the Hancock County Family Support Center, as his caregivers attend the annual Community Baby Shower in the all-purpose room and gymnasium of Chester Municipal Building. The event, which was sponsored by FSC and the Hancock Partners in Prevention, included a resource fair, free baby items like diapers, a catered lunch and games for moms, dads and kids. (Photo by Stephanie Ujhelyi)

Hancock County students John O’Roarke, Gage Vasso and Ezra Tremain, all age 6 and of Chester, work on the coding for their driveless train Monday morning during a WVU Extension presentation regarding coding and engineering. The trio were among a dozen children up to age 10 attending the workshop while their caregivers were on hand a lunch and resource fair for the Community Baby Shower. (Photo by Stephanie Ujhelyi)

Zach White, agent with the WVU Extension Office in New Cumberland, stands over a railroad track as a train makes its way around the loop. White spoke to schoolage children about how coding is used to operate a Personal Rapid Transit driverless train in one community. (Photo by Stephanie Ujhelyi)

Diapers, backpacks and other baby needs were on display for distribution to caregivers attending the Hancock County Family Support Center and Partners in Prevention’s annual Community Baby Shower Monday in Chester Municipal Building. (Photo by Stephanie Ujhelyi)