Exploding pumpkins, hip-hop dancers, music and free food were the vital ingredients making NorthTec's first ever Community Day a huge success.
Around 2000 people turned up to enjoy the family day out at NorthTec's Raumanga campus on Sunday, as crowds enjoyed all the free activities on a hot, sunny day, while also finding out about study programmes on offer at Northland's largest tertiary provider.
Families queued patiently for free candy floss and a sausage sizzle, and snapped up the free vegetable seedlings grown and donated by NorthTec's horticulture students.
NorthTec's international hospitality students served up curry and Indian snacks in the whare kai.
Younger visitors took full advantage of the bouncy castle, while the jenga and swingball games, colouring table and gumboot tossing were in demand all day.