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Media Contact:
Pat JaCoby, (858) 534-7404 Attendees will be greeted with free bottles of water and directions to the various locations for children’s entertainment, workshops, displays, tours, food and entertainment. Activities are located along UCSD’s Library Walk, the Price Center and Warren Mall, and on the Scripps campus along the Pacific Ocean. The community event will begin with Preview Day tours for prospective students and their parents led by UCSD students. The popular tours will depart every half hour beginning at 8 a.m. from Library Walk at Center Hall. Parents and students can also talk to Admissions Office staff about financial resources available to help pay for college tuition, housing and dining services for students, and freshman and transfer student admission requirements. At Scripps, in addition to the surfing clinics, visitors can tour the 1,084-long Scripps Pier, usually closed to the public, and the historic Director’s House, providing a glimpse of what Scripps was like in the early 1900’s. Among other activities, guests can view a collection of strange creatures of the deep, listen to whale and dolphin sounds, create unique art work using fish, seaweed and shells, and learn about tide-pool animals through hands-on activities with the Planet Earth Express outreach van. On the general campus, the San Diego Supercomputer Center—which develops and operates leading edge technologies—will offer 30-minute tours every half hour from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Meanwhile, guides from the Jacobs School of Engineering will lead a 9 to 10 a.m. tour of the world famous Powell Structural Research Labs which contain unique tools for testing earthquake damage to bridges, roadways and buildings. On Warren Mall, engineering students will display a human powered submarine, an unmanned airplane and a formula race car which they constructed using the latest in composite materials and engineering design principles. And for those who think a concrete canoe couldn’t possibly float, there’s an example built by engineering students for national competition that proves it can. There also will be battlebots, the popular robotic creatures built by a team of dedicated students, and a chance to engineer a mass of mysterious “goo.” Additionally, a number of children’s attractions including train ride, rock wall, animal show, music show, face painting, ice cream making and astro jumps will be offered on Warren Mall. A “cookie walk” game will feature cookies from the French Gourmet, the Rad Hatter will help guests make and decorate their own pirate hats, and pumpkins be available for decorating. At Geisel Library, the Teeny-Tiny Pit Orchestra, a crowd favorite, will perform novelty songs about the sea and musical theater pirate songs. Visitors can view a demonstration of the fascinating art of repairing books and get tips on repairing books at home, receive a commemorative bookmark, and take a library tour. The UCSD School of Medicine and Healthcare will provide an up close look at an emergency ambulance and demonstrate help given by the Disaster Medical Assistance Team deployed to Ground Zero in New York after 9/11. Informational booths will be staffed by the Burn Center, Cardiovascular Center, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, Shiley Eye Center, the Stein Institute for Research on Aging and others. More than 30 booths set up around campus will offer breakfast and lunch items featuring every kind of food from Korean and Thai to hot dogs, smoothies and hamburgers. For further information visit the Open
House web site at http://openhouse.ucsd.edu,
call 858 534-6386 or email jlane@ucsd.edu.
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This
year’s theme, UCSD: Oceans of Fun, marks the 100th anniversary of
Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Hours for the open house are 8 a.m.
to 1 p.m. on the main campus, with extended hours running to 4 p.m. on
the Scripps campus. All events are free and open to the public. No parking
is available at Scripps, so shuttles will run continuously to Scripps
from free parking on the UCSD campus.