SLIPPERY ROCK — Adei Atwell knows the secret ingredients to make indoor snow.

The Slippery Rock Area Middle School sixth-grader was one of the youths inside an “escape room” at the Slippery Rock Community Library on Friday who used their brain power to crack the code to a box that housed the ingredients.

“Melts, melts, melts,” said Adei, 11, with excitement as he shouted the lock combination code word that solved the escape room puzzle.

Adei said the lack of snow outside dampened Christmas break, but he definitely warmed up to using his brainpower to crack the escape room code.

When he decided to volunteer at the library, Adei ended up having fun at the Friday event.

“It's not even community service,” Adei said of how volunteering turned into entertainment rather than work.

Adei was one of the 40 children and families who dropped in Friday at the Slippery Rock Community Library on North Main Street for its Family Fun Day.

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