Experience Genesee

Experience Genesee

Second Annual
EXPERIENCE GENESEE '09
All-Ages Open House

Thursday, March 26, 5:00 - 8:30 PM
Rain or shine, moonlight or starlight

Join a fun and FREE evening of mini-workshops, sport clinics, refreshments, art and pottery, health and fitness, ecology, star gazing, Second Life, live music, a theatre performance, the Cool Kids Bubble Man, and much more! The doors of Genesee Community College's Batavia Campus will be wide open, welcoming people of all ages to explore and Experience Genesee.

Schedule:

5:00-5:30 Registration / Central table in the Forum
5:30-6:30 Funshops throughout the College including Admissions session in Room T119 A/B
6:30-7:30

Cool Kids Bubble Man in the Forum

Refreshments (pizza & pop) in the Student Union

7:30-8:30 Funshops continue throughout the College

Experience Genesee Tours throughout the evening:

  • Student Union
  • College Village
  • Genesee Center for the Arts
  • Alfred O'Connell Library
  • The new Nursing Lab
  • Physical Therapist Assistant Lab
  • Barnes and Noble Bookstore

Funshops to Experience (most sessions are approximately 25 minutes in length)

  • Hands-On, Fun Activities for Children - with GCC's Education Students
  • Savvy Travel Tips
  • Fashion Workshop - Building a Positive Image
  • Do it Yourself Computer Repair
  • Art History- Experience Lost Cities and Ancient Tombs
  • Physics Lab Alive - with lights, mechanics, and magnetism
  • Telescopic Star Gazing - at the Clocktower (weather permitting)
  • Fitness & Exercise Today
  • ACE: Earning College Credit While in High School
  • Pot Throwing on Pottery Wheel (ages 8 and up)
  • Entrepreneurship - Create a Business Opportunity
  • Ride the Radio Waves @ WGCC
  • Tour TV Studios
  • Grow It & Eat It - Cooking up your own harvest
  • Spring is Near - Tips from a Genesee Cooperative Extension Master Gardener
  • How the Health are You? - Let a Genesee Nurse take your blood pressure
  • What's in the Water? - The abundance of life in a local pond
  • Forensic Corner - Careers and opportunities abound inBiotechnology
  • Second Life - Create Avatars and experience virtual worlds 
  • Spanish Fun and Fluency -Spanish music, video, card-making and scrapbooking
  • Sport Mini-Clinics -Mini competitions in the gym and pool with prizes
  • The Tree of Education Coloring Contest Exhibit
  • We are our voice! - Intro to Vocal Performance:  Speaking, singing, yelling and developing a happy healthy vocal production

Other Experience Genesee options:

  • Be fingerprinted with members of the Criminal Justice Club
  • Discover the convenience of online learning and how to fast track your pursuit of a college degree
  • Explore career options at the Career Center
  • Batavia Brass Society - A performance of classic horns in the Conable Technology Building
  • Watch the Genesee Lacrosse Team Practice
  • Enjoy a dress rehearsal of the live performance of the Incredible Jungle Journey of Fenda Maria

Experience Genesee Coloring Contest and Exhibit is open to children up to 6th grade. All coloring page entries will be exhibited at Experience Genesee on Thursday, March 26. One entry per child, please. One Best of Show prize will be awarded just before the CoolKids Bubbleman Show at 6:25PM in the Forum. The official Experience Genesee Coloring page is available by opening and printing this PDF document 1.83 MB.

Registration for the Admission Open House can be made at:
www.genesee.edu/OpenHouse 

For more information contact
Val Hale or Cathy Costello at 585-343-0055 x 6200.

For the Experience Genesee Program 1.26 MB (with event descriptions)

For the "Make Your Own Experience Genesee" Itinerary 575 KB (summary of events)