ASU Open Door 2018 photo gallery

Thousands of visitors descended on the Polytechnic and Tempe campuses for ASU Open Door. The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering faculty, staff and students had a slew of activities for guests of all ages, with interactive exhibits on topics ranging from robotics, 3D printing, tissue engineering and nanofab technology to aviation, sustainable engineering and rocketry.

Check out the gallery below to relive just a few highlights of the events.

At ASU Open Door events, ASU invites the local community to visit one of the five campus locations and explore the innovative spaces where ASU students and researchers learn and thrive. Tabitha Ryan, 3, an ASU Open Door veteran, shows off her glow stick at the Polytechnic campus on January 26, 2018. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU
Amir Nesbit, 6, Sylvio Nesbit, 3, and their dad use 3D light-up blocks to simulate the pixels that graphic information technology Lecturer Christina Carrasquilla’s students use to build in a digital world. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU
Anthony Camacho, 12, operates a remote controlled aircraft simulator in the aircraft structures lab. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU
Hayley Hochreiter, 2, test drives the Baja Car with the Sun Devil Racing team at the Polytechnic campus.
Visitors learned how code works by creating algorithms step-by-step with blocks in the popular video game, Minecraft, led by Lecturer JoAnne McDermand. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU
A child spins the wheel of destiny to find out what Fulton Schools major he could end up studying as a future Sun Devil at the Technology Center building on the Polytechnic campus. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU
Jacob Miller, 11, looks on with interest as Nathan Kishiyama, an air traffic management major and Provost Scholarship recipient, explains the air traffic control simulator. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU
A young visitor tests out a soft robotic arm prototype at the Bio-Inspired Mechatronics Lab on the Polytechnic campus. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU
Manufacturing engineering Assistant Professor Bruno Azeredo shows off a 3D-printed metal part to 6-year-old Suvidhan Satyavarapu and his family in the Innovation Hub at the Polytechnic campus. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU
ASU graduate Hope Martin helps her son Kaden, 6, build a rocket at the Air Powered Paper Rockets station at ASU Open Door at the Polytechnic campus. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU
Blastoff! Kids have a blast launching paper rockets with the Rossum Rumblers, a student robotics club at the Polytechnic School. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU
With a little help from the Society of Women Engineers, visitors at Tempe Open Door made their own “slime” — a polymer that acts like a liquid but can be picked up. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU
Aarush and Yogansh operate a remote-controlled land rover with the ASU/NASA Space Grant Robotics team at ASU Open Door on the Tempe campus. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU
Clara and Riley show off their Sun Devil pride in front of ISTB 4 at ASU Open Door on the Tempe campus. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU
The American Indian Science and Engineering Society, represented by Santana Henry (left), Jennifer Jones (right), both mechanical engineering majors, and Kelsey Williams (center), an interior design major, helped ASU Open Door guests build ping pong ball launchers to shoot for prizes. If guests didn’t make a shot, AISES worked with them to analyze and redesign the launcher. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU
A graduate student from the BIRTH Lab shows off the basiliskbot, a robot whose movement is designed after a basilisk lizard. Visitors learned how engineers study animal movements in order to make robots that can move better on uneven surfaces for applications such as search and rescue. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU
Yinglu Xing, a construction engineering graduate student, uses a thermal camera to show the “heat” of the pitchfork at the Thermal Imaging for Energy Efficiency exhibit during ASU Open Door. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU
Three graduate students demonstrate to visitors how they use nanofab technology to create a lab-on-a-chip, a device that separates nanometer-size particles from blood to diagnose cancers. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU
Daven Ho, 6, races solar cars with scholars from the US-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies-Energy. The international project between ASU and two Pakistani universities funded by USAID aims focuses on applied research relevant to Pakistan’s energy needs and helps produce skilled graduates in the energy field. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU
Cristian Holguin (right), 14, tries out a remote-controlled robotic arm in the Human-Oriented Robotics and Control Lab as part of a series of interactive games to demonstrate the rehabilitative and human movement capabilities of robots studied by engineering researchers. Photo by Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU
A student from the Daedalus Rocket Club helps Lucas Wirtanen, 6, launch a paper rocket he built while learning about how students in the club build and launch their rockets at competitions. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU
Emery, 8, learns about the use of magnets in nanotechnology — from magnetic dollar bills to making other materials stronger — at ASU Open Door at the Tempe campus. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU
A student discusses tissues with young visitors and explains the research he and his team do to engineer tissues for heart regeneration and breast cancer. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU
MasterCard Foundation Scholars and mechanical engineers Immanuella Kankam and Pedro Jesse Martin entertained visitors with a Spirobot UNO — a LEGO® robot controlled by an Arduino UNO microcontroller — that draws mathematical curves that look like string art. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU