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save the date, march 1, 2014

Presentation

School of Transborder Studies: Exploring Music, Film and Art
4:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Join us for a fun and exciting evening while we explore the Transborder Region through Film.  We will offer educational activities for the entire family including, tours of Historic maps and art collections, face painting, and a scavenger hunt.  The evening will include a special musical presentation and performance.

Social science

Zone 1 | Interdisciplinary B (formerly Administration Bldg. B-Wing) (INTDSB), Room 165

Stargazing with the ASU AstroDevils
4:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Children's Activities - Color, decorate, and take home stars and comets with you at our Children's Activity table! Build your own rocket, redesign the planets, and take home other toys and free goodies.

Telescope Viewing - Ever wanted to look at the night sky? Don't have a telescope? Stop by the viewing deck and experience the vast beauty that the night sky has to offer!

Engineering

Zone 4 | ISTB 4 2nd floor AND PSH 5th floor

Study International Humanities Abroad
4:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Stop by the School of International Letters and Cultures to learn more about studying abroad in Brazil, Québec, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Mexico, Romania, Spain, and China. 

Humanities

Zone 2 | Durham Language & Literature Bldg. (LL)

The CCS Mobile Training Center proudly introduces two new products coming to your schools
4:00 pm to 9:00 pm

The CCS Mobile Training Center proudly introduces two new products coming to your schools: Channel One News InterActiv and SAFE system, security alert for education.

Engineering

Zone 1 | Parking Lot 11

The Ronald Greeley Center for Planetary Studies - Come and explore!
4:00 pm to 9:00 pm

The Ronald Greeley Center for Planetary Studies (RGCPS), also known as the Space Photography Laboratory (SPL), is a NASA Regional Planetary Information Facility (RPIF). Visit and see selected images of archived and current planetary missions, as well as plasma displays and maps of interest. Come and explore!

The center was renamed to honor Dr. Greeley, who came to ASU in 1977 and propelled the ASU Planetary Geology Group into a tremendous legacy of exploration that continues today with Curiosity on Mars! Come and explore!

Engineering

Zone 4 | Bateman Physical Science Building, F Wing, 5th floor AND ISTB 4, 2nd floor

Meet NASA astronaut Catherine "Cady" Coleman
4:15 pm to 5:15 pm

What is it like to launch into space on the Space Shuttle, or to float weightless and work on the International Space Shuttle? Come meet NASA astronaut Catherine "Cady" Coleman and experience her journey. Extraordinary slideshow (out of this world), talk, Q & A. Do you have what it takes to follow in her footsteps? Find out!

Engineering

Zone 1 | Coor Hall 174. Space is limited to 125.

Laptop Orchestra of Arizona State University
5:00 pm to 5:45 pm

Laptop Orchestra of Arizona State (LOrkAS) is an experimental sonic art performance collective exploring the use of the laptop as ensemble instrument for musical expression.  We are using this medium to develop new possibilities and skills in listening, improvisation, performance, composition, coding, and teaching, as well as adapting contemporary classical repertoire and 'classic' laptop orchestra works for our purposes. Visit the group's website at http://lorkas.org

LOrkAS will perform:

Art/Design

Zone 1 | Stauffer B, Rm 125

Squid in the Sonoran Desert
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Have you ever seen a squid beak? Would you like to know how squid change color? Discover how tentacled creatures live, and what ASU is doing to help learn more about these creatures!

Natural science

Zone 2 | LSC Atrium

“The Buzz” An Observation Beehive
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Bee Hive Observation Display A live observation bee hive! See how the queen and her worker bees interact and learn about the role of bees in our world. ASU's resident expert Osman Kaftanoglu hosts the buzz for visitors with a photographic exhibit, too.

Natural science

Zone 2 | Life Sciences, C Wing, Atrium

Carbon Free Fuels Inspired by Nature
5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Learn about exciting research going on at ASU to produce fuels from sunlight without warming the earth! 4th year graduate student Justin Flory will explain how his research adapts natural photosynthesis from plants and bacteria to make it suitable for capturing and storing solar energy on an industrial scale. He is eager to answer questions and discuss your ideas on alternative energy, climate change, fossil fuels or any of your other scientific curiosities!

Find out more about Justin and his amazing research:

Natural science

Zone 2 | LSC Atrium

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