For five evenings over the course of February, the public was invited onto Arizona State University's campuses for Night of the Open Door, to see what each has to offer, in the form of interactive games, informative displays and plenty of fun. This weekend was the big finale, with scores of activities across the Tempe campus.
Visitors got to handle reptiles, perform science experiments, try on the languages and costumes of other cultures, watch performances and create robots, all in a celebration of ASU and of learning itself. See a sampling of the fun below.
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Molecular science grad student Jesse Coe plays the guitar, demonstrating how the increase in pressure from the sound increases the intensity of gas-fed flames at the Night of the Open Door on ASU's Tempe campus on Saturday, Feb. 27. Hundreds of people from around the Valley and beyond came to the open house that showcased experiments and activities throughout the campus.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Gillian (left) and Kennedy Gilthero and and dad Giles Gilthero learn how to make a thermometer during Night of the Open Door in Tempe.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Konrad Laudon, 13, looks at a silicon wafer that has 5 miles of copper wire in each chip in the nanotechnology exhibit at the Night of the Open Door on Feb. 27. Konrad is interested in studying engineering.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Su Wong and her daughter, Trinity, try on Central Asian outfits at the Critical Languages Institute's table Feb. 27 in Tempe.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Tony Nguyen (top, in blue shirt) draws a crowd as he gives a demonstration about water filtration in Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 4 (which boasts quite possibly the coolest floor covering across campus).
Photo by Ben Moffat/ASU Now
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Sara Cotaque gets an arm up from the Army ROTC to help her start her pull-ups on Hayden Lawn during the Night of the Open Door in Tempe.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Miss Glendale, doctoral candidate Lauren McBurnett, shows Beatrice Blok, 7, and Marinna Syms, 8, solar-powered crickets Feb. 27. McBurnett is studying civil engineering. Beatrice and Marinna are from Scottsdale.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Snakes alive! Cergio Brown gets to try out a rosy boa tie at the Life Sciences building during Night of the Open Door.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Deagan Schlichting launches a bottle rocket outside the Psychology North building Feb. 27.
Photo by Ben Moffat/ASU Now
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Mireya Ochoa, a junior studying aerospace engineering, draws a pair of pink glasses with a 3-D pen at the Night of the Open Door on ASU's Tempe campus.
Photo by Charlie Leight
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Chad Stewart hosts a demonstration on how satellites relate to Earth's gravity during ASU's Night of the Open Door on the Tempe campus.
Photo by Ben Moffat/ASU Now
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Members of a Korean pop dance group from Westwood High School in Mesa perform on the sixth-floor patio of Coor Hall on the Tempe campus.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Zack Philpot, 15, with his mother, Erika, creates a simple circuit during an introduction to electrical circuits demonstration at the Night of the Open Door on Feb. 27. The Philpots are from Flagstaff. Erika is an ASU alum, and Zack is interested in engineering.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Vivian Speyer takes a look at the human fossils on display at the Institute of Human Origins booth.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Al Le Bell looks at meteorites on display in the ISTB4 building on the Tempe campus during Night of the Open Door.
Photo by Ben Moffat/ASU Now
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Scientific glass blower Christine Roeger creates a barometric swan from a glass tube at the Night of the Open Door on Feb. 27.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Older brother Hayden Jacobson helps Dance Jacobson to create his own scribble bot at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society display Feb. 27.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Ernie Hubbard (left) and Zaid Sevilla, both 10, make polyhedrons with gum drops and toothpicks in the "Fractals, Polyhedrons & Tetrahedrons, Oh, My!" table at the Night of the Open Door on ASU's Tempe campus. Ernie is from Gilbert and Zaid from Chandler.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Stella Snider gets excited as she looks through a magnifier at harvester ants during Night of the Open Door in Tempe.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Dianna Beckman and Jesse Klein in a portrait made of a continuous line drawn between 100,000 dots. The process uses math to convert a picture into the dots, then draws a single line to connect them. Both Beckman and Klein are seniors in electrical engineering.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Luis Lopez watches his son, Gabriel, 7, as he begins building a solar-powered car in the Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies lab Feb. 27. The Lopez family is from Chandler.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Sarah Zhao takes a picture of the Madagascar hissing cockroach she has picked up during Night of the Open Door on the Tempe campus Feb. 27.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
Check out the Night of the Open Door at the earlier events this month:
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