Hot spots
Take a look at highlights from each college.
Check out hot spots by category
Agriculture
- Sample freshly prepared insect cuisine at the Insect Zoo.
- Tour the K-State Gardens.
- Take your picture with Smokey Bear.
- See the new K-State champions at the Little American Royal Livestock Exposition in Weber Arena.
- Learn about organisms that cause diseases of food crops and how plant pathologists battle these pathogens.
- Check out the largest soybean plant.
- Chow down on pancakes in Seaton Hall.
- Take a plant home from the plant sale.
- Watch a soda geyser erupt.
- Learn about the history of branding and receive your own K-State brand.
- Purchase delicious baked goods at Shellenberger Hall.
- Tailgate and enjoy live music and free food at the Hal Ross Flour Mill located at the International Grains Complex located across from the stadium.
Architecture, Planning, and Design
- Learn about student work, including a solar house, green roof rain gardens, and more community projects such as sustainable home plans for tornado-devastated Greensburg.
- Explore the ground floor of Seaton Hall’s east wing, which has been transformed into a lab by fifth-year students.
- Immerse yourself in models, furniture, plans, and landscapes that are drawn, designed, and built by students.
- View the annual student photography competition and exhibit.
Arts and sciences
- Tour the newsroom of the Collegian, K-State’s award-winning newspaper.
- Watch students spin magic on a potter’s wheel.
- Check out K-State’s own tightrope-walking “rat pack.”
- Test your physical fitness by measuring your grip strength.
- Marvel at strange and fascinating amphibians and reptiles.
- Discover how mutant beetles help fight cancer.
- Challenge your brain with optical illusions.
- Get dazzled at the chemistry magic show.
- Dive into a world of animation.
- Tour the campus radio station.
Business administration
- See Calvin Hall transformed into a board game called Hallopoly. Collect $200 in CBA money at the front door.
- Test your skill in contests and games to win prizes.
- Enjoy a free lunch as you visit with current students, academic advisors, and professors.
Education
- Watch historical figures come to life in a “living” wax museum.
- Watch a balloon artist.
- Design your own art for children.
- Learn how to play boccia, a sport traditionally for athletes who use a wheelchair.
Engineering
- Check out the Lego robot design competition.
- See the solar car that raced across America.
- Discover the latest technology in wind tunnels, automated manufacturing systems, and computer applications.
- Find out how a bionic cow can help monitor cattle.
- Learn how to design Formula One and Baja racecars by studying cars designed by K-State students.
- Tour one of the few research/teaching nuclear reactors on a university campus.
Human Ecology
- Check out the fashion show in Hoffman lounge at 2 p.m., where you can see student work on models.
- Explore your style in the textile lab by experiencing how an original print is silk-screened onto muslin tote bags.
- Recycle old game pieces. Turn your favorite characters or pieces from old board games and turn them into buttons.
- Make healthy snacks and learn about health and nutrition from family and consumer sciences education students.
- Show off your golfing skills at the five-hole miniature golf course.
- Watch hotel and restaurant management students transform blocks of ice into sculptures.
K-State Libraries
- Take a turn on Guitar Hero or Wii Sports, and find out why libraries today have gaming systems.
- Learn how library services support K-State students, and discover how electronic collections work for you just like Google—but better.
Technology and Aviation (in Salina)
- Using student-built cannons, aim water balloons at your least favorite mascot.
- Watch how a new product is designed and manufactured.
- Check out the latest concrete canoe design.
- Take part in wild and wacky chemistry demonstrations.
- See what it’s like to fly an aircraft and check out the university’s fleet.
Veterinary medicine
- Come visit the exotic animal exhibit.
- Visit the small ruminant petting zoo.
- Race through the GI tract display to see how food is digested.
- Check out the live parasite, flea, and tick exhibit.
- Blow dart demo: see how veterinarians safely handle wild animals.
- Cheer for your favorite pet at the pet show.
