For two minutes, a portion of the ISU campus will seemingly freeze in time at noon Monday. At least that’s the illusion a first-year honors program group intends to create.

Inspired by a similar event that took place at Grand Central Station in New York City and was organized by Improv Everywhere, participants of “Freeze Iowa State,” are encouraged to remain motionless for two minutes on campus, primarily on Central Campus.

The event was created to complete a “make up a holiday” assignment in a first-year honors program course, said Jordan Mandernach, freshman in chemical engineering.

“We wanted to do something special,” Mandernach said. “We hope to have at least 700 people to actually come to Central Campus [to] freeze and then make it a yearly event.”

The organizers relied on Facebook to spread the word, and more than 1,500 students plan on attending, according to the event’s Facebook group.

Identical events have been arranged to occur simultaneously with the ISU event at the University of Iowa, University of Northern Iowa, Central College, Wartburg College, Iowa Western Community College and Hawkeye Community College.

Participants are encouraged to use cell phone alarms on vibrate to ensure the group freezes and unfreezes at the same time, according to the Facebook group.