Polytechnic Campus Welcome to Night of the Open Door, Arizona State University’S Annual Open House
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Polytechnic campus Welcome to Night of the Open Door, Arizona State University’s annual open house Listed in this program are the activities Note to guests: hosted by ASU’s colleges, schools, • All Activities operate from programs and student groups, 4 to 9 p.m. unless otherwise noted providing guests with a sampling of in the program. the most innovative university in the nation. • Parking is free for Night of the Open Door visitors in select ASU There is something for everyone. Night parking lots and structures. See of the Open Door is an opportunity program map, Night of the Open for visitors of all ages to participate Door app or website for locations in hands-on activities, explore and details. laboratories and innovative learning spaces, and speak directly to the • Public restrooms are available in all faculty, staff and students that make ASU buildings. ASU such a special place. • Need assistance? Look for the So come in and look around. volunteers with the “Ask Me!” signs or stop by the registration booth. Each of ASU’s campuses have a unique identity and we invite you to visit all of our campus locations Night of the Open Door throughout the month of February. is included in the Devils on College app! Download today! ASU Night of the Open Door is a Signature Event and ASU is a Foundational Partner of the Arizona SciTech Festival. Polytechnic campus Friday, Feb. 17, 4–9 p.m. ASU Night of the Open Door @ Polytechnic offers a behind the scenes look into ASU’s state-of-the-art labs and learning environments. Come experience flight simulators, air traffic control simulators, the wonders of algae, new-age cars, play classic video games, and enjoy dance and theater performances. Attend Night of the Open Door at all five valley campuses Downtown Phoenix: Friday, Feb. 3, 4–9 p.m. West: Saturday, Feb. 11, 4–9 p.m. Polytechnic: Friday, Feb. 17, 4–9 p.m. Thunderbird: Saturday, Feb. 18, 4–8 p.m. Tempe: Saturday, Feb. 25, 3–9 p.m. opendoor.asu.edu • @ASUopendoor Devil Network, Seeds of Sustainability and the Poly Community Garden. Host: Sustainability Practices • Sustainability Minute to Win It Room 145 Join Barrett, the Honors College for “Minute to Win It,” based on the highly popular NBC TV game show! The aim of the game is to perform several Academic Center (CNTR) tasks with simple, household items. Each one of these “Minute To Win It” games is a classic and Make Something @ Poly Library will encourage participants to think creatively Lower Level - making for great entertainment for kids and Stop by the Polytechnic Library to build small parents alike! structures and/or create your own story using Host: Barrett, the Honors College @ Polytechnic story cubes. Prints provided by the ASU Photography Club will also be on display. • Student Life Host: ASUP Library Services Administration Bldg. (ADMIN) • Engineering Becoming a Sun Devil Home on Turtle Island: Reimagining Indian 4:30-5:30 p.m. Country Room 140 Room 081 Come to Becoming a Sun Devil, a special program Join the American Indian Student Support for high school freshman, sophomores and Services for creative cultural activities surrounding juniors, to explore what ASU can offer you. With Indian Country. Demystify stereotypes of more than 350 degrees, there’s a program for indigenous communities and living conditions you here. Interested in scholarship and internship on Indian reservations - from urban settings like opportunities? We’ve got them. Looking for a the Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community university that’s affordable and boasts an award- to the open skies of rural Indian reserves. Build winning faculty? That’s us. RSVP here: https:// sustainable homes for different terrains. Help visit.asu.edu/becoming design future community plans. Thinking about Host: Admission Services “Home on Turtle Island,” draw what makes your home unique on a turtle silhouette. • Student Life Host: American Indian Student Support Services Agribusiness Center (AGBC) • Culture/Language Follow the Orange Sustainability Trivia Lobby Room 110E The orange fruit is one of the most widely University Sustainability Practices will provide consumed fruits in the Unites States. Learn sustainability trivia and promote ASU’s about the life of a orange by playing “Follow the sustainability initiatives. Other engagement Orange.” With each roll of the dice, players will programs will be highlighted such as ASU’s Green discover the journey of an orange as it makes 1 Peralta Hall (PRLTA) Elevator Pitching Room 120 Elevator Pitching--we teach you how to pitch to Angels, VC’s and potential employees. Agribusiness Center (continued) Host: The Polytechnic School in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering its way from the orange groves, into your local grocer, and then into your refrigerator. Yes, • Engineering there’s more to just squeezing the juice out of that orange. By the end of the game, players will have Computer Virus....YOU create one!! completed a cool beaded bracelet, with beads Room 122 reminding them of the process a orange goes through to get to us. Visitors will create and execute a computer virus in less than 30 seconds. Host: W. P. Carey School of Business and the Morrison School of Agribusiness Host: The Polytechnic School in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering • Business • Engineering Balloon Artistry Robotics is Coming to Our Life! Lobby Room 179 Aliens, animals and more...Please come by and receive a fantastic balloon model by the wonderful We are going to open the labs and demonstrate balloon artists. our research in robotics. We will introduce how those robotics can be used in real life. Some Host: W. P. Carey School of Business and the demonstrations and hands-on experiences will be Morrison School of Agribusiness given to the visitors. • Business Host: The Polytechnic School in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Root Beer Taste Test • Engineering Lobby Hires? A&W? Shasta? Generic? Can you really tell the difference? Do you purchase only name brand items, or do you prefer the store brands? Participate in a root beer taste test and give us your opinion! Learn how food marketers use taste tests and experiments to determine consumers’ preferences while enjoying some refreshing root beer! Host: W. P. Carey School of Business and the Morrison School of Agribusiness • Business 360 Video & Virtual Reality, Page 8 2 in Arizona. Every year, tens of thousands of Sustainability Arizonans connect to jobs with hundreds of Solutions Festival local employers after visiting our no-cost career centers. Donating to Goodwill also helps the environment by diverting more than 100 million Academic Center Lawn of pounds of material out of Arizona landfills each Sustainability Central year. Visit our booth to learn about what Goodwill is doing in your community and enjoy some fun Creative Reinvention activities such as a coloring station, basketball hoop, and great raffle prizes. Guess what these things are made of! Participants will look at different images of everyday items and try to guess what the product was made of. SRP Delivering More Than Power During this game, participants will learn about the Discover how SRP is delivering more than just concept of a circular economy, and see creative, power by using sustainable methods to keep clever, and surprising examples of pre- and post- our energy and water supply clean. While at the consumer recycling. SRP booth, make sure to check out the museum display showing the impact a single water bottle Future Builder has on our community. Can you create a sustainable future city? The game introduces the three pillars of Systems Scramble sustainability—society, economy, and One change can effect everything else! This environment—and allows participants to consider activity has each participant represent one piece the tradeoffs associated with building different of a larger system. This allows them to embody things, especially the high cost and relative and visualize how systems are interconnected and scarcity of environmental resources. how one small change to one piece can impact the whole system. High Five for the Future Make a pledge to the more sustainable world! Water Roll Participants write down something they can do to You decide where the water should go! In this support sustainability into the future. Parents can game, participants allocate one of our most take a picture and share it on social media with important and scarcest resources: fresh water. the hashtag #high5future They allocate “water” to farms, factories, and homes by rolling 10 marbles down a tube. Then, My Community they have to decide what to do if a drought took away 30% of their water! Imagine a more sustainable neighborhood! With inspiration from images of places that have changed over time, participants draw their neighborhood and consider what they like about it and what they would add or change. This activity encourages participants to think about how to be sustainability change agents in their community. Sustainability Solution: Goodwill of Central Arizona When you donate or shop at Goodwill, you help support our mission of fighting unemployment 3 interactive activities in the Engineering Imagine and Design Zone! The K-12 Engineering Education and Outreach team will be hosting a variety of hands-on activities, designed for all ages, that release the inner creator in all of us. Host: Engineering Student Outreach and Retention Program Peralta Hall (continued) • Engineering Chain Reaction STEAM Machines! Open a Door Into Science! Room 231 Rooms 103 & 107 Come and explore the art of engineering by building Rube Goldberg-style chain reaction machines! Join the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College for a jump into the fun and exciting world of hands-on Host: The Polytechnic School in the Ira A.