ASU Open Door Tempe 2019

Robots and race cars. Paper rockets and airplanes. Electrical circuits and water treatment.

Those were just a few of the attractions at Arizona State University’s Open Door at the Tempe campus on February 23.

Children and families from throughout the valley converged on ASU’s Tempe campus for an afternoon of fun and learning. The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering is one of several ASU schools welcoming visitors to explore the Tempe campus. Fulton Schools students, faculty and staff introduced the community to the enthralling pursuits of engineering through interactive games and hands-on activities.

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

Aerospace engineering student Menna Hussein preps Clara for a successful rocket launch at the Sun Devil Rocketry STEM celebration. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU
Society of Automotive Engineers members Darrien Croom, Alec Faubion, Brycen Zolnick, Matt Sanford and Rachel Eisinger-Leavitt show off their new and improved vehicle parts at ASU Open Door @ Tempe as they get ready for their next competition. Photographer: Monique Clement/ASU
Dakota Edwards, a graduate student in mechanical engineering and a member of ASU’s Bio-Inspired Robotics, Technology and Healthcare Lab, demonstrates how ferrofluid becomes strongly magnetized in the presence of a magnetic field. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU
Addison and Benjamin make different useful shapes — and some dinosaurs! — with a cornstarch-based building material called “corncrete” while learning about biogeotechnical experimentation at ASU Open Door @ Tempe. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU
Angela Egan, an environmental engineering major, Oniya Silas, a civil engineering major, and Kimberly Martin, a civil engineering doctoral student, volunteer at ASU Open Door @ Tempe and show off their Sun Devil spirit. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU
Guests of all ages participated in hands-on activities to learn about engineering at ASU Open Door @ Tempe. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU
Mateo looks at different organisms under a microscope to see how engineers can learn from nature to design more sustainable technology at ASU Open Door @ Tempe. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU
Suvidhan gets ready to build a paper airplane at the Next Level Devils booth. Photographer: Monique Clement/ASU
Greeshma shows off her favorite color hydrogel and learns about the various ways it can be used to improve agricultural processes at ASU Open Door @ Tempe. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU
Denzel builds a tower with his grandfather, Dale Johnson, at their fifth ASU Open Door event. Photographer: Monique Clement/ASU
A visitor learns about small satellites and the Phoenix CubeSat Mission from a student representative of the Sun Devil Satellite Laboratory. Photographer: Monique Clement/ASU
Kassidy Carpenter and her cousin, Ethan, stand outside Noble Library after building a DNA double helix with licorice twists and gummy bears at ASU Open Door @ Tempe. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU
Alumnus Mark Lewandowski and his daughter Lucy make a spaghetti tower at the American Society of Civil Engineers student chapter booth. Photographer: Monique Clement/ASU
A prospective future engineer spins the Wheel of Destiny to discover which of the 25 disciplines within the Fulton Schools could be right for him. Photographer: Monique Clement/ASU
Students from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers are ready to help visitors build air-powered vehicles made from balloons and straws. Photographer: Monique Clement/ASU