The final Open Door event introduced visitors to everything from rescue robots to healthy eating.
More than a hundred activities awaited visitors who made their way across Arizona State University's Tempe campus as each college, school, department and center highlighted the groundbreaking work they do every day.
The School of Life Sciences presented social insects such as bees, along with grasshoppers, hissing cockroaches and two friendly rosy boas, Blue and Rusty.
The Department of English donned their Jedi robes for photos. Sparky joined in on the electron-race fun, where students learned about the electron process in photosynthesis.
While this was final Open Door event of the year, you can look forward to Homecoming during the fall semester, where you'll get another chance to check out ASU's work across disciplines and campuses.
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Summer Khadour (right) and her sister Jennifer Lewis (left) race one another in the electron race during the 2019 Tempe campus Open Door on Feb. 23.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Six-year-old Annika LaRue admires her finished face painting at the ASU Open Door on Feb. 23. She and her twin sister, Bridget, got matching decorations. The university's annual open house drew thousands of families from all over the Valley to explore activities and programs in the labs and innovative learning spaces.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Tiana and Morgan play the drums with their Girl Scout troop, led by ASU School of Music community engagement coordinator Samuel Peña.
Photo by Marcus Chormicle/ASU Now
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ASU staff member Erik Wirtanen and his daughter Mara Jade put together their gummy DNA during Open Door.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Biodesign Institute director Joshua LaBaer looks on with his daughter, 12-year-old Sarah, as she uses a virus to kill cancer.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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William plays a memory game where he steps on the the colored dots in the correct sequence after hearing them only once.
Photo by Marcus Chormicle/ASU Now
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Melissa Stevens and her daughters (from left to right) Kelsey, Natalee, Karlee and Heidi make small robots at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society booth on Old Main during the 2019 Tempe campus Open Door.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Nine-year-old William Conkle, of Mesa, dries his Harry Potter wand at the ASU Open Door.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Emaya Mojica displays her clay Teotihuacan figurines at Open Door.
Photo by Marcus Chormicle/ASU Now
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Michelle Aigner, a lab coordinator, teaches 9-year-old Parer Kurasch, of Scottsdale, about Earth impact craters.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Citta Anspacto does a series of excercises with Austin Hereford, a senior studying excercise and wellness, at the ASU Tempe campus Open Door.
Photo by Marcus Chormicle/ASU Now
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Richard Kirian joins his daughter Emelissa Kirian on the slide during Open Door.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Six-year-old James Smith gets help putting on his astronaut suit at Open Door.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Felicia Zhang (left) and Destiny Alejo (center) meet Blue, the rosy boa, at the School of Life Sciences display at Open Door.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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A Star Wars TIE fighter pilot keeps an eye out at Ross-Blakley Hall during Open Door.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Arabic lecturer Neimeh Mousa writes the names of Jacob Dylan Surgener (right )and Jacob Diaz (center) in Arabic during the 2019 Tempe campus Open Door.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Maurice Perreault, 4, of Tempe, learns about nanotechnology water treatment at ASU Open Door.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Freshman brothers Vineet Butala and Rushal Butala, (center) learn about steering a ferrofluid through a small maze with mechanical engineering master's degree student Dakota Edwards in the BIRTH (Bio-Inspired Robotics Technology and Healthcare) lab.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Chemistry doctoral student Edgar Reyes plays his guitar and the Rubens' tube responds to the chords played by emitting different levels of fire.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Christi Hing watches as her nieces Hannah Yee (center) and Allison Hing (right) make their toothbrush robots.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Isaac Taliaferro (left) and Leina Ooi (right) learn about foot and hand bones of animals and how they have evolved at the Institute of Human Origins display.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Victoria Piedmont does a pull-up with some help from exercise wellness senior Maram Sweis.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Deborah Tapia watches as a grasshopper makes its way down her mother's arm at the School of Life Sciences display.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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ASU business analytics and organization leadership senior Brooke Overturf takes graduation pictures with her pup, Bella, during the 2019 Tempe campus Open Door.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Torin Burns flies his paper airplane and learns about engineering during the 2019 Tempe campus Open Door.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Tyler Huynh sits in the Sun Devil Motorsports car as freshman aerospace engineering student Brycen Zolnick explains details about the car to his mother, Betty Nguyen, and his family.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
View galleries from other 2019 Open Door events:
Open Door at the Polytechnic campus | Open Door at the Downtown Phoenix campus | Open Door at the West campus
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