Cornell University Bring a Child to Work Day Sessions 2019 Colors Indicate Age Groups for Each Time Period: Yellow = 8-12 Yrs
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Cornell University Bring A Child To Work Day Sessions 2019 Colors indicate age groups for each time period: yellow = 8-12 yrs. / Green = 8-16 yrs. / Blue = 13-16 yrs. Class Activity Name Description Session Ages Location Department/Group size SESSION ONE: 9:30 to 10:30 am A fun interactive session of customizing your own Build Your Own Personal personal pizza. 9:30 am- Ivy Room in Willard Pizza 10:30 pm 10 8-12 yrs Straight Cornell Dining Kindness Coins were an idea originally developed by the Ben's Bells Project (https://bensbells.org/). The idea is that you will paint your own kindness coins which are to be passed along when you experience the kindness of another or witness a Kindness Coins random act of kindness. Then you can attach a note which explains how kindness coins work, so that the receiver can pass it along to the next person! 9:30 am- Appel Multipurpose 10:30 pm 25 8-12 yrs Room Hotelies Serving Society Learn how electricity works and what really happens when you freeze fresh apples and then smash them. Join our talented Cornell Facilities Campus Service team on an interactive experience Light it Up! with an electrically charged display, and learn how to make ice cream and get a taste of Cornell's very own ice cream. 9:30- Stocking Hall Room 148 - 10:30 am 30 8-12 yrs Conference Center Facilities Management Learn how milk gets from dairy cow to the carton Tour of Dairy Barn in your fridge, and have a tour of the Teaching 9:30am- Vet College Teaching Veterinary Medical Diary Barn.. 10:30am 15 8-16 yrs Dairy Barn College Obstacle Course and Basic Marching and Saluting Train Like a Warrior training with Naval ROTC 9:30- 10:30 am 20 8-16 yrs Barton Hall NROTC Decorate cookies in Rose House for a sweet snack! Cookie Decorating 9:30- 10:30 am 12 8-16 yrs Rose House Dining Rose House Cornell University Bring A Child To Work Day Sessions 2019 Colors indicate age groups for each time period: yellow = 8-12 yrs. / Green = 8-16 yrs. / Blue = 13-16 yrs. Decorate cupcakes with the bakers and chefs at Cupcake Decorating Sweet Sensations. 9:30 - Sweet Sensations 10:30 am 18 8-16 yrs 3rd Floor of Appel Dining Bakery/North Star Dining Discover your superpower in this fun, interactive session! In this workshop you will ponder questions like…if you could have a superpower, what would it be? Would you keep your Discover Your superpower a secret? What would you call Superpower! yourself? What kind of adventures would you have? Finally, participants will create shields demonstrating their superpowers! 9:30- 10:30 am 10 8-16 yrs 201 Carpenter Hall Cornell Engineering Learn about how Guiding Eyes for the Blind trains their puppies to be Seeing Eye dogs! Participants Guiding Eyes for the will learn about Guiding Eyes' mission, teach Blind puppies a few commands, and play with the 9:30 - service dogs. 10:30 am 15 8-12 yrs tbd How can cows turn hay into milk? Come explore a Holey Cow cow's stomach and see how a cow gets a little help 9:30- from her friends. 10:30 am 30 8-16 yrs B38 Morrison Hall Animal Science Come learn what it's like to be a part of the Only REAL Marching Band in the Ivy League! Children will rotate through four stations that break down the basic components of being in a marching band: The Big Red Marching conducting, colorguard, marching, and, of course, Experience! playing instruments. The session will conclude with the children conducting the Band in the Alma Mater! 9:30- Fischell Band Center, 141 10:30 am 30 8-16 yrs Kite Hill Drive Big Red Marching Band Meet in the lobby of Day Hall for a walking tour of Tour of Cornell's our beautiful campus. Your guide will share stories Beautiful Campus and interesting facts about the university. 9:30 - 10:30 am 12 8-16 yrs Meet in Day Hall Lobby Cornell University Bring A Child To Work Day Sessions 2019 Colors indicate age groups for each time period: yellow = 8-12 yrs. / Green = 8-16 yrs. / Blue = 13-16 yrs. Jumpstart your law enforcement career today and pursue a career path that is crucial to society and helps to keep communities safe. Learn everything Cornell Police has to offer. We will take a tour of Tour of Police Facilities the agency to include: Our 911 dispatch Center, Investigations Unit, K-9 unit patrol vehicles and a couple more exciting stops as time permits. Meet in West Hallway of 9:30 - Barton Hall, Ground 10:30 am 10 8-16 yrs Floor Cornell Police Session Description: On multiple occasions, the Star Wars movies showed moons of giant planets as habitable. Now scientists think these fantasy story-tellers may have been on to something. Was Star Wars Right? Learn why the icy moons of our own Solar System’s outer planets have captured the attention of SPIF classroom 317, astrobiologists in search of extraterrestrial life in located on the third floor our own cosmic neighborhood and beyond. 9:30- of the Space Sciences 10:30am 15 8-16 yrs Building SPIF Learn about the history of horseshoeing, watch a Cornell Farrier Program horseshow making demonstration, and learn about 9:30am - the Cornell Farrier Program 10:30am 20 8-16 yrs. Vet College Farrier Program SESSION TWO: 11 AM TO 12 PM AGES Learn about how Guiding Eyes for the Blind trains their puppies to be Seeing Eye dogs! Participants Guiding Eyes for the will learn about Guiding Eyes' mission, teach Blind puppies a few commands, and play with the 11 am - service dogs. 12 pm 15 8-12 yrs tbd Obstacle Course and Basic Marching and Saluting 11 am-12 Train Like a Warrior training with Naval ROTC pm 20 8-16 yrs Barton Hall NROTC Cornell University Bring A Child To Work Day Sessions 2019 Colors indicate age groups for each time period: yellow = 8-12 yrs. / Green = 8-16 yrs. / Blue = 13-16 yrs. Join Museum Educator Julie McLean for a behind the scenes visit to the Johnson Museum of Art. Ms. McLean will give an overview of what it’s like to work at the art museum, share information about how the museum organizes its exhibitions and Behind the Scenes at the programs, and highlight some of the best-loved Art Museum works of art in the collection. The tour will include a walk around the top floor of the Museum to see the amazing views of Ithaca and Cayuga Lake! Meet in the Johnson 11 am-12 Museum of Art's main Johnson Art Museum pm 10 8-16 yrs entrance lobby Tour Discover your superpower in this fun, interactive session! In this workshop you will ponder questions like…if you could have a superpower, what would it be? What are the pros and cons of Discover Your this superpower? Would you keep your Superpower! superpower a secret? What would you call yourself? What would you wear? What kind of adventures would you have? Finally, participants will create shields demonstrating their 11 am-12 superpowers! pm 10 8-16 yrs 201 Carpenter Hall Cornell Engineering How can cows turn hay into milk? Come explore a Holey Cow cow's stomach and see how a cow gets a little help 11 am - from her friends. 12 pm 30 8-16 yrs B38 Morrison Hall Animal Science Explore a variety of hands-on activities from the teaching labs and lecture closet of the physics department. Not a “sit, watch, and listen” hour; be Spin, Shock, Light and ready to touch, handle, and move. Activities have Launch - the Invisible been chosen for their entertainment and surprise Forces of Nature value. You might also learn something about physics, but that’s completely optional. 11 am-12 pm 15 8-16 yrs B22 Rockefeller Hall Physics Department Cornell University Bring A Child To Work Day Sessions 2019 Colors indicate age groups for each time period: yellow = 8-12 yrs. / Green = 8-16 yrs. / Blue = 13-16 yrs. Come learn what it's like to be a part of the Only REAL Marching Band in the Ivy League! Children will rotate through four stations that break down the basic components of being in a marching band: The Big Red Marching conducting, colorguard, marching, and, of course, Experience! playing instruments. The session will conclude with the children conducting the Band in the Alma Mater! 11 am-12 Fischell Band Center, 141 pm 30 8-16 yrs Kite Hill Drive Big Red Marching Band Plant a tree and learn about trees/plants! Learn The Wonder of Plants about how to help trees grow and get seeds of 11 am-12 Libe Slope right near your very own to plant at home! pm 20 8-16 yrs WSH Back Entrance Grounds Meet in the lobby of Day Hall for a walking tour of Tour of Cornell's our beautiful campus. Your guide will share stories Beautiful Campus and interesting facts about the university. 11 am - 12 pm 12 8-16 yrs Meet in Day Hall Lobby Jumpstart your law enforcement career today and pursue a career path that is crucial to society and helps to keep communities safe. Learn everything Cornell Police has to offer. We will take a tour of Tour of Police Facilities the agency to include: Our 911 dispatch Center, Investigations Unit, K-9 unit patrol vehicles and a couple more exciting stops as time permits.