Rainy skies couldn't dampen the spirits of those who braved the weather to attend ASU's Open Door on the Tempe campus Saturday.
From a robotics competition to VR games to human brains, the event providied myriad opportunities for learning — and fun.
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Assistant Professor Paul Coseo holds up the rooftop rain gauge at the College of Design rooftop garden during the Tempe campus Open Door event on Feb. 22. The rooftop garden serves as a testing area for urban gardens.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Open Door volunteers Emily Olive (left) and Kendra Milhone (right) check out prickly pear cacti on a tour of the rooftop garden at the College of Design during the Tempe campus Open Door event.
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Kay Funk checks out a beetle under a microscope as Lily Urban (left) explains the design that makes it unique, at the biomimicry display during Tempe's Open Door.
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Franco Anastasia creates a message in a bottle for his mother during Open Door.
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A Sun Devil Smackdown participant places his robot in the cage during Open Door. The competition was hosted by the Sun Devil Robotics Club.
Photo by Meg Potter/ASU Now
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Phillip and Linda Ferguson pose for a photo together at the photo booth during the Tempe campus Open Door.
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Krithik Gurram learns about temperatures and tornadoes in a bottle at the "Storms, Tornadoes and More" booth at the Tempe campus Open Door.
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Open Door attendees walk through the “cell membrane” on their way to an activity that teaches the structure of cells at Open Door.
Photo by Meg Potter/ASU Now
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Cynthia Ramirez dances a Veracruz style dance outside the School of Transborder Studies with the Instituto De Folklor Mexicano during the Tempe campus Open Door.
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Soren Olsen plays a VR game during Open Door on Saturday, Feb. 22.
Photo by Meg Potter/ASU Now
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Astrophysics senior Zehra Hodzil hands Chauncey Stewart his own lunar maps for completing his lunar fact sheet during the Tempe campus Open Door event.
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Zen Siojo checks out her rock painting handprint from the face painting booth at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change during Open Door on Feb. 22.
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Siblings Ethan and Alexandra Buchsbaum pose for their "graduation" photographs at the GradImages booth during Tempe Open Door.
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The NOVA gecko high-fives Harper Grindle during Open Door at the Tempe campus Feb. 22.
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Holly Sow and her daughter Mariam Sow check out the hissing cockroaches during the Tempe campus Open Door event.
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Open Door attendees construct their own tetrahedrons during the "Paper Plates, Tetrahedrons, and Balloons" event.
Photo by Meg Potter/ASU Now
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Sabina Ospanova and her son Alan Dostiyarov have fun together in the Jeep at the ROTC presentation area during the Tempe campus Open Door.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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Ruthel Redmon and her kids Aiden (left) and Julianne (right) look at a human brain that had been affected with a stroke, at the Life Sciences building during the Tempe campus Open Door.
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Open Door attendees shape thin balloons into 3D geometry during the "Paper Plates, Tetrahedrons, and Balloons" event on Feb. 22.
Photo by Meg Potter/ASU Now
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Mackenzie Schwartz holds a cup with water and dry ice, at the Beus CXFEL laser lab display in Biodesign C, at the Tempe campus Open Door.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Second-year graduate student Sean Tilton helps Charlotte Kolb aim the laser in the Beus CXFEL laser lab display.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Sierra Luna (left) and Autumn Brown put together fossilized stones at the Natural History Collection display in ISTB-4, at the Tempe campus Open Door.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Erin Mabry preps to fly her balsa-wood glider she made at the SAE Aero Design club display at Open Door on Feb. 22.
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Canyon Smith along with his friend Fernando Ortiz and brother, James Smith, take turns looking at a Daphnia, or water flea, at Open Door. The Smiths' father, Matt (behind them) works at ASU in facilities.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Canyon Smith and other explorers learn about the microbes in the human intestines of astronauts at the Tempe campus Open Door.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Sparky gives a high-five to Sgt. Katie Fuchtman at the ASU Police Department booth.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
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Guests explore the displays in the Biodesign Institute at the Tempe campus Open Door.
Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU Now
If you missed out, don't worry. There is one more free Open Door event:
- Polytechnic campus: 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 29
More: See photos from the Downtown Phoenix campus and West campus 2020 Open Door
Learn about what's in store at each campus, including information on the free app that can help visitors map out the activities they want to visit. Free tickets are available in advance online.
Check ASU Now after each event for photo galleries of the action.
Top photo: Austin Stonebraker celebrates his win in the Sun Devil Smackdown hosted by the Sun Devil Robotics Club during the Tempe campus Open Door on Saturday, Feb. 22. Photo by Meg Potter/ASU Now
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