2025 | ASU Open Door

Read more about Outdoor Adventure Activities!

Do you like outdoor adventures? Join us to practice lighting campfires in pie pans--will it get hot enough to melt chocolate?--and pitching tents. If you already know how to pitch a tent, you can try it blindfolded! Or, you can try a mindfulness exercise for appreciating nature, or other fun adventure activities. What do you like to do in the outdoors?

Read more about Brains, Brains Brains!

Join the Behavioral Neuroscience of Memory and aging lab (https://psychology.asu.edu/research/labs/behavioral-neuroscience-of-mem…) for a journey into the brain! Have you ever seen a sheep's brain up close? Watch our scientists perform brain dissections! Have you ever wondered how our brain sends signals? Create model neurons with the help of our research assistants and learn about the different regions of the human brain through a fun play doh activity!

Read more about Matching Games with the American Indian Science and Engineering Society Chapter

We invite all parties attending the Open Door event at the ASU Tempe Campus to join in playing various Matching Games with the American Indian Science and Engineering Society Chapter at Arizona State University (AISES Chapter at ASU)! These matching games will include a memory game involving the different tribal seals of the tribes located in Arizona. Come join us!

Read more about sunhacks - Binary Bracelets

Come by the sunhacks booth to learn how to represent your name in binary (ones and zeros) using beads! We will provide the conversions between alphanumeric/English characters, hexadecimal, and finally binary, the way that a computer interprets characters.

Read more about Hogwarts Sorting Hat and Spell Casting

Welcome to Hogwarts! Inspired by the Harry Potter books, young visiting wizards get sorted into a “house” and receive a corresponding wand; use the wand to magically correct misspelled words! Teeny tiny wizards can just enjoy learning silly spells. Beware: Dementors may show up! Facilitated by professors Jim Blasingame and Peter Goggin and English education students.

Read more about In the Know with ASU News

Win a prize and get up to date all things ASU News delivered straight to your inbox.

Read more about Visual & Interactive Media Makers

Discover the magic of media creation at Visual & Interactive Media Makers! Open to all ages, this hands-on event invites you to explore green screen video, record audio in a professional booth, and design custom t-shirts, mugs, or stickers. Unleash your creativity and learn how cutting-edge technology brings your ideas to life. Fun for the whole family—don’t miss it!

Read more about Sun Devil Rewards

Become the ultimate insider on all things ASU! Learn how to earn Pitchforks, redeem exclusive rewards in our catalog and how to stay in the know with Sun Devil Rewards!

Read more about Future Sun Devil

The children are asked one question about the various emphasis areas such as organizational communication, health communication, etc. When they answer the question correctly, they get awarded the degree of “future HDSHC graduate.” They will hold up a frame that resembles Instagram to stand behind and are given a cap and tassel to wear for the picture. The frame includes the name of the school and our Instagram handles @asu_hughdowns as well as #communication with the caption Future Sun Devil

Read more about Summer Camps at West Valley Campus

Explore Our Future Lawyers Institute, Future Doctors Institute, and the Future Forensic Science Institute!

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