Community Open House, Friday April 13, 2012 &
Saturday April 14, 2012
Plan to attend the Grossmont
College Community Open House on Friday evening, April 13, 2012, and
all-day Saturday, April 14, 2012. As part of its yearlong 50th
anniversary celebration, Grossmont College will host a Community
Open House, a fun-filled, family-oriented festival that will
showcase the college’s outstanding learning environment and a
rededication of the college’s place of prominence in the local
community. On display will be the latest innovations in educational
programs and technology hosted by the various departments and
disciplines, including theatre arts, music, health professions,
culinary, math and English. Kids of all ages will personally
experience interactive, hands-on experiments in the sciences.
Coaches will offer youth sports clinics and inspire young athletes.
A number of entertaining performances are planned. Informative tours
of new buildings will be available. Campus clubs, organizations and
groups will be on hand.
How long has it been since you
visited Grossmont College? A lot has changed since Grossmont College
was born in 1961. Friends, supporters and especially alumni are
encouraged to attend the Community Open House and reconnect with GC.
See for yourself how Grossmont College is “changing lives through
education,” which is the college’s vision statement. So, mark your
calendars and join in the celebration. Food and refreshments will be
available. Visit us again to learn about the latest plans.
Learn more about
the Food Trucks that will be available.
EVENTS FOR FRIDAY APRIL 13, 2012
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Grossmont Jazz Ensemble Main
Quad at 6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
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Grossmont Gospel Choir Main Quad
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
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Grossmont Afro-Cuban Ensemble Main
Quad 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
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Family-friendly "Sock-Hop Dance"
in the Main Gym at 7:30 pm
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Classic Cars on Display
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Live Music by "Footloose,"
featuring classic tunes from the '50s, '60s and '70s
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FREE Prizes and Giveaways
EVENTS FOR SATURDAY APRIL 14, 2012
INFORMATION BOOTH OPENS
Location: Main Quad
Time: 9 am
SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEMONSTRATIONS
Location: Griffin Gate
Time: 9 am
Interactive Science and Engineering Demonstrations
and Exhibits from SPAWAR Education Outreach, lasers, robots,
rockets, light bulbs and more, inside Griffin Gate.
FLYOVER
Time: 9:30 am
Flyover of vintage aircraft from Gillespie Field
saluting Grossmont College.
BUILDING DEDICATION and RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY
Time: 9:30 am - 10 am
FOOD TRUCK FESTIVAL
Location: Entire campus
Time: 10 am - 2 pm
WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT
Time: 9 am - 2 pm
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
Administration of Justice Demonstrations
Location: Building 34, Room 111
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am
Explore indoor mock crime scenes and blood
spatter rooms while discovering forensic light source, bullet
trajectory, and fingerprint classification demonstrations.
AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
Come Learn Sign Language
Location: 55 Quad
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Learn signs with the ASL Department.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Presentation of the Chipaya of Bolivia
Location: Building 70, First floor
Time: 10 am
Get an
inside look to the indigenous people that speak a language closely
related to the Maya of Central America.
THE ARABIC CLUB
Arabic Performances
Location: Building 70, Outside
Time: 10 am, 10:30 am, 11 am, 12:30 pm, 1 pm,
1:30 pm
Perform Arabic songs using Middle Eastern
instruments.
ART
Art and Design Club
Location: 200 Quad
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Art Fest
Create a painting or drawing that
express the role that Grossmont College plays in the community. Art
supplies will be provided to all participants.
Art History
Location: Building 27, Room 207
Time: 10 am, 10:30 am, 11 am, 12:45 pm,
1:15 pm, 1:45 pm
Momentous events in history get their 15 minutes
of fame in brief talks by students and faculty celebrating
innovations and anniversaries in the visual arts and humanities!
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY CENTER
Digital Assistive Technology
Location: Building 70, Room 135
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am, 12:30 am - 2 pm
Experience the state-of-the-art advances in
digital assistive technology. Computers will actually read to you
using humanlike speech synthesis. Give your hands a rest and let
your voice to the typing.
ASTRONOMY
Solar System Walk
Location: Building 34
Time: Begins at 10 am, runs continuously until
11:30 am
Join astronomy instructors for a walk-and-talk
around the campus to learn the dimensions of our solar system.
Observing the Sun
Location: Building 34
Time: 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Get a unique look at the sky through the rooftop
telescope.
ATHLETICS
Times are applicable to all athletic
events.
Time: 10 am - 10:45 am, 10:45 am - 11:30 am, 1 pm -
2 pm
Soccer and Football
Location: Football Field
Free youth sports clinics supervised by Grossmont
College coaches.
Basketball and Volleyball
Location: Main Gymnasium
Free youth sports clinics supervised by Grossmont
College coaches.
Tennis
Location: Tennis Courts.
Free youth sports clinics supervised by Grossmont
College coaches.
Girls Softball
Location: Baseball Field
Free youth sports clinics supervised by Grossmont
College coaches.
BIOLOGY
Microscope Extravaganza: The World Looks
Different Under a Microscope
Location: Building 30, Room 128
Time: 10 am, 11 am, 1 pm
View cells, pond water, and your own oral
bacteria.
BUSINESS OFFICE TECHNOLOGY
Brush Up On Typing Skills
Location: Building 70, Room 131
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
High-wire Acts with Microsoft Word
Location: Building 70, Room 134
Time: 10:30 am - 11 am
Juggling the Internet
Location: Building 70, 126
Time: 10:30 am - 11 am
Tame Your Wild Spending with Excel
Location: Building 70, 134
Time: 11 am - 11:30 am
Looking Good with Outlook
Location: Building 70, Room 126
Time: 11 am - 11:30 am
Clown Around with PowerPoint
Location: Building 70, 134
Time: 1 pm - 1:30 pm
Have a Blast with Banking
Location: Building 70, Room 126
Time: 1 pm - 1:30 pm
CARDIOVASCULAR TECHNOLOGY
What is Ultrasound?
Location: Building 34, Rooms 207, 209, 210, 224
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
See the inside of your heart and blood vessels
with an Ultrasound Echo Machine demonstration.
CAREER CENTER
How the Grossmont College Career Center Can Serve You
Location: Building 60, Room 140
Time: 10 am - 11:30am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Presentation on career development/life planning and job search
services, including assessments for career beginnings and
transitions, career, college and job search library, information on
occupations and employers and employee training.
CERAMICS
Ceramics Program
Location: Building 27, Room 202, Ceramics Lab Open
House
Demonstrations of raku and handbuilding wheel techniques,
hands-on activities and contests.
CHEMISTRY
Make Your Own Lip Balm and Lip Stick
Location: Building 30, Room 242
Time: 10 am, 11 am, 1pm
Make Your Own Super Bouncy Balls
Location: Building 30, Room 250
Time: 10 am, 11 am, 1pm
CHILD DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
Come Play With Us!
Location: Building 32B
Have a retro childhood with presentation of children's books and
games from the 1960s.
COMPUTER SCIENCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Video Gaming Competition
Location: Building 60, Gaming Zone Lounge
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am, 12:30 pm - 2pm
Demonstrations of video games designed by
Grossmont College students including 3D Max Animations and Utility
Game Engine making. All skill levels welcome.
Create Your Own Video Game
Location: Building 55, Room 530
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Demonstration by Grossmont College students.
CULINARY ARTS
Fruit Carving Tips
Location: Building 60, Room 173
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am
Learn from the award-winning Chef Joe Orate.
Tips on Baking with Chocolate
Location: Building 60, Pastry Classroom 170
Time: 10 am - 11:30am
Learn from the award-winning Chef James Foran.
Vegetable Carving Tips
Location: Building 60, Room 173
Time: 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Learn from award-winning Chef Joe Orate.
Home Entertaining Dessert Ideas
Location: Building 60, Pastry Classroom 170
Time: 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Learn from award-winning Chef James Foran.
DANCE DEPARTMENT
Student Dance Concert "Entrances and Exits
2012"
Location: Building 24, Room 271
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS PROGRAM
Digital Drawing and Painting
Demonstrations
Location: Building 20, Room 105
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Create your own digital drawing.
EARTH SCIENCES
Compass Traverse and GPS Scavenger Hunt/Geocaching in the
Coastal Sage
Location: Information Booth - Main Quad
Time: 10 am, 11 am, 1pm
Join in on a hands-on journey utilizing a GPS compass.
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Zine Making Workshop
Location: 55 Quad
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
"Zine" is short for homemade magazine. Gain
hands-on experience in compiling original works and ideas into a "zine",
using cut-ups, collage and other art techniques.
Acorn Review Reading
Location: 55 Quad
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am
Students whose writings were featured in the most
recent Acorn Review will read and perform their original works of
poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
Poetry SLAM!
Location: 55 Quad
Time: 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Grossmont College's first Poetry SLAM is open to
students and faculty, community members, and high school students.
Poets will perform their original work which will be judged on a
numeric scale by previously selected members of the audience to
determine a Grossmont College Grand Champion.
HISTORY
Tell Us Your Grossmont Story
Location: Building 70, Outside
Time: 10 am - 11 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Be a star in a videotape time capsule that will
tell the world about how Grossmont College helped you. Also, view a
video with previous interviews with students and a timeline banner.
LIBRARY
Storyteller Presentation by Harlynne
Geisler
Location: Building 70, First floor
Time: 1 pm
MATHEMATICS
Math Wheel of Fortune
Location: Building 31, Room 356
Time: 10 am - 11 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Test your math skills by spinning the big wheel
and guessing math terminology as letters are revealed.
Math Cab
Location: Various Locations
Time: 10 am - 11 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Get a ride across campus by answering math
questions correctly. Answer incorrectly and you're out of the cab.
Test your math knowledge aboard the Math Cab in this fun activity
for the whole family.
MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS
Media Communications Tour
Location: Building 20
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Tour the state-of-the-art TV studio and digital
audio recording studio, as well as Griffin Radio, the
student-operated radio station heard worldwide on the Internet.
NURSING
Health Promotion Fair,
One Ounce of Prevention and a Pound of Cure
Location: Building 34, Upstairs
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Gain important knowledge about stroke risk, heart
attacks, breast and skin cancer prevention, poison prevention,
cholesterol and blood pressure control, and a CRP demonstration.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSISTANT
Fall Prevention and Risk Information
Location: Building 34, rooms 250, 251
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Learn how to prevent falls.
ORTHOPEDIC TECH
Get a Cast Without Having a Broken Bone
Location: Building 34, Downstairs
Time:
10 am - 11:30 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Children are invited to get an arm or finger in a
cast.
PHILOSOPHY
Ethics for Life and Ethical Dilemmas
Location: Building 51, Room 581
Time: 10 am
Lecture on ethics for life and ethical dilemmas in
everyday life.
Presentation on Buddhism and Eastern
Thought
Location: Building 51, Room 581
Time: 10:30 am
Student Readings
Location: Building 51, Room 581
Time: 11 am, 12:30 pm
Student dress in costume and read from the field
of Classical Philosophy.
Presentation on Islam Beliefs and Rituals
Location: Building 51, Room 581
Time: 1 pm
PHOTOGRAPHY
Back to the Future Interactive Photography
Exhibit
Location: Building 20, Room 103
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Take a step back in time at the Photography
Department's historic photo shoot. Dress in 1960's clothing and
accessories from the Theatre Arts Costume Shop before you pose in
front of a large-format historic photo from the Grossmont College
photo archives. Free prints of your photo ready in 5 minutes!
PSYCHOLOGY
Dissect a Sheep Brain
Location: Building 30, Room 208
Time: 10 am
Dissect and learn about Physiological psychology.
How Does Your Memory Work?
Location: Building 30, Room 208
Time: 10 am - 11 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Demonstrations from the world of Social and
Cognitive Psychology.
Who was Pavlov's Dog?
Location: Building 30, Room 208
Time: 10 am - 11 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
A demonstration of Pavlov's findings in classical
conditioning and consider the psychology of learning.
RESPIRATORY THERAPY
Catch Your Breath
Location: Building 34, Room 211 & 212
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Learn how to take your pulse and listen to normal
breathing. See a ventilator demonstration and the vibrating "vest.
Learn more about lung disease.
SCULPTURE
Student Displays
Location: Building 23, Room 105
Student display of jewelry (copper, brass) and three-dimensional
design art pieces in cardboard, wire, clay, plaster, and masking
tape.
STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES
Free Body Mass Index Readings
Location: Building 60
Free Body Mass Index (BMI) readings in a private
and confidential setting. Is your weight within the average range
for your height? Find out your blood pressure, percent of oxygen in
your blood and what it means for you. Smoking cessation information
will also be available.
STUDENT SERVICES AND ADMINISTRATION
How College Can Be Affordable
Location: Building 10
Time: 10 am - 11 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Get information on paying for college from
Financial Aid.
How to Enroll in College
Location: Building 10
Time: 10 am - 11 am, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Counselors are available to answer questions from
students and parents about services
offered and success in college.
Transferring to a Four-Year University
Location: Building 55, Room 524
Time: 10 am, 11 am, 1pm
Tips on transferring ASAP. Grossmont College
maintains one of the highest transfer
rates to public state colleges and universities.
THEATRE ARTS
Backstage Tours and More
Location: Building 21, Stagehouse Theatre
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am
Backstage tours, Construction Workshop, Costume
Shop & Actor's Make-up/Dressing Room.
Short Performances
Location: Building 21, Stagehouse Theatre
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am
VETERANS ART PROJECT
Veterans Resource Center
Location: Building 29A
Military veterans express themselves in ceramics.
Representatives from the Veterans Affairs Office and Student Veteran
Organization available to share services for students.
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