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HUMAN ECOLOGY

Follow the blue paw prints to Justin Hall

By the hour

9 a.m. to noon

Tour the K-State Speech and Hearing Center. Lobby, Campus Creek Complex.

Free hearing screening. 127 Campus Creek Complex.

Free voice analysis screening. 226 Campus Creek Complex.

10 a.m.

Demonstration on screen printing muslin tote bags. 251 Justin Hall.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Eat at the open air café. Patio, Justin Hall.

11 a.m.

Demonstration on screen printing muslin tote bags. 251 Justin Hall.

Ice carving demonstration. Patio, Justin Hall.

Noon

Demonstration on screen printing muslin tote bags. 251 Justin Hall.

1 p.m.

Presentation about communication difficulties and how you can help.136 Campus Creek Complex.

Demonstration on screen printing muslin tote bags. 251 Justin Hall.

Ice carving demonstration. Patio, Justin Hall.

2 p.m.

AMDA fashion show. 253 Justin Hall.

$100 giveaway drawing by the Kansas State Credit Union.

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Activities

Can’t find Justin Hall?

No problem. Let a human ecology student representative guide you to the many attractions in Justin Hall. K-State Student Union booth.

5-hole miniature golf course

Come show us your golfing skills, and enter to win a golf package. Front lawn, Justin Hall.

Discover the open-air café

Come enjoy grilled hot dogs, chips, a cookie, and a complimentary Pepsi Cola soft drink, provided by Pepsi Cola of Manhattan, all served by hotel and restaurant management students. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Patio, Justin Hall.

Ice carving demonstrations

Watch hotel and restaurant management students transform blocks of ice into beautiful sculptures right before your eyes. 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Patio, Justin Hall.

Self-guided tour of the Justin Hall window displays

View selections from the recent exhibit The Little Black Dress—On the Red Carpet and computer-generated textile prints used to create paper dolls and doll clothing. Window displays throughout Justin Hall.

How do you cook a Wildcat?

Support the Student Dietetics Association by purchasing a How to Cook a Wildcat cookbook. Hoffman Lounge, Justin Hall.

Spring into health

Make “ants on a log” snack with Fruit of the Fight students, learn about the acai berry, pick up healthy recipes, and view muscle and fat models. Hoffman Lounge, Justin Hall.

Make your own ‘stache

Have your picture taken with your own milk mustache. Hoffman Lounge, Justin Hall.

Are you bad to the bone with calcium?

Dietetics students will guide you through the dairy and nondairy foods that are good sources of calcium. Hoffman Lounge, Justin Hall.

Gerontophobic?

Groove on by the Center on Aging booth to see examples of ageism in the media from years gone by to the present. Hoffman Lounge, Justin Hall.

Free Money Tuesday K-State Credit Union T-shirt giveaway

Get a credit union T-shirt, which if worn on campus, could win you cash. Don’t forget to enter to win $100 and get free stuff. The drawing will be at 2 p.m.

Are you smarter than a financial planner?

Visit the personal financial planning booth to see how your swing measures up to our financial trivia for a chance to putt a hole-in-one. Win prizes and find out about the many career opportunities. Hoffman Lounge, Justin Hall.

Hotel and restaurant management

Discover the many exciting career paths and opportunities that this major has to offer. Hoffman Lounge, Justin Hall.

I dream, I discover, I design

Come see how interior design students create universal and sustainable spaces for clients and the future. Hoffman Lounge, Justin Hall.

Making learning visible for children with music, light, and shadows

Watch kids in action: dancing with scarves and streamers to music, drawing what they see when experimenting with light, examining objects on mirrors and an overhead projector, and making objects out of recyclables/natural materials.

Interested in working with children?

Come see what our students have done, and pick up information about the early childhood education program. 149 Justin Hall.

Textile trivia

Test your knowledge of fabric samples, and get information about parenting skills and the family and consumer sciences education program. 150 Justin Hall.

Snack time

Make your own healthy snack. Learn about health and nutrition from family and consumer sciences education students. 150 Justin Hall.

Fun with food

Come learn how science is involved with everyday food and cooking ingredients.150 Justin Hall.

Screen printing demonstrations

Explore your style in our textile lab by experiencing how an original print is silk-screened onto muslin totebags. 233 Justin Hall.

AMDA fashion show

Check out our very own fashion show. See student work displayed on student models. 2 p.m. 253 Justin Hall.

What do design students do?

Come see the projects that turn a beginning design student into an emerging professional. Find out how K-State’s interior design program, ranked number one in the country, can prepare you for a fantastic career. 328 Justin Hall.

Discover sustainable design

Experience a taste of our creative design side by learning how to recycle vintage silk ties into new decorative buttons. 350 Justin Hall.

Marketing trail

Future Wildcats, let your ideas go wild as you color your own clothing line. 351 Justin Hall.

Visit the Speech and Hearing Center

Learn about the various services available to the community. 9 a.m. to noon. Campus Creek Complex, just north of Justin Hall.

Discover speech language pathology

View anatomical models of your vocal folds and ears. Pick up pamphlets about speech and language development, voice and hearing conservation, and other communication and swallowing disorders. Lobby, Campus Creek Complex.

Free hearing screening

Students in the communication sciences and disorders program will provide free hearing screening. 9 a.m. to noon. 127 Campus Creek Complex.

Learning about communication difficulties and how you can help

Learn how you can help yourself or someone you know with a communication problem. The surprise is in the presentation, which may be about friends with “bumpy speech,” hearing aids, strokes, or one of many other topics related to communication disorders and swallowing. 1 p.m. Campus Creek Complex.

Visit the voice university

Graduate clinicians in the communication sciences and disorders program will teach you about your voice and the factors that can affect it. 9 a.m. to noon. Campus Creek Complex.

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