Session descriptions (downtown campus)

Schulich School of Music
Location: Strathcona Music Building, Clara Lichtenstein Hall – C209

We will begin with simple familiar rounds (Frère Jacques, Row, row, row your boat), and continue with more unfamiliar and complex rounds. By dividing up and coming in at different time you end up singing polyphony! Activité bilingue

Faculty of Science
Location: begins at Faculty Club

Science at McGill University goes back some 150 years, but there are hidden pockets of history that will surprise even the most avid McGill chronicler. From the underground stream near Burnside Hall and the role it played in the life of geologist George Mercer Dawson, to the Duke of Edinburgh’s unpublicized visit to the toilets at the old Biology Building (now James Building) in 1952, this tour is sure to enlighten and entertain

Faculty of Engineering
Location: Frank Adams Building, FDA 5

Includes 4 fun activities: Engineering Information Station (different careers in Engineering), Cookie Mining (Timed competition to extract cookie chunks from cookie), Marshmallow tower building competition, and Hot Ice Demo (What makes a Hand-Warmer Hot?)

McGill Food and Dining Services
Location: RVC Cafeteria Kitchen

Ever wonder how you can make a delicious pizza even better? Come and create your own healthy pizza from dough to cheese, and cook it in time to enjoy for lunch. There may even be enough to share!

Arts
Location: McLennan Library Basement, room MS-37, Arts Multimedia Language Facility

Through interactive games, see how we can use different technologies to help us learn new languages. Learn the meaning of Chinese characters, pracitice drawing them on a tablet, and how to pronounce them using KEY Multimedia Interactive Chinese Language Software and the CAN-8 VirtuaLab digital language laboratory.

Enrolment Services
Location: Service Point

Starting at McGill’s welcome center, take a 45-minute walking tour of the downtown campus with a student tour guide. You’ll learn some history about McGill and visit where students study and hang out. If you tell us where your parent works, we’ll try to point out the building!

Office of the Dean of Students
Location: 3610 McTavish, Room 430

Join this entertaining and interactive activity to learn about mentoring: What is a mentor? How can a mentor help you in school, at work, and in the community? We’ll also help you discover how you can be a mentor! Mentoring games really are fun for everyone!!

Faculty of Medicine
Location: Strathcona Dentistry Building, Reading Room

Come discover what you look like on the inside! You're invited to go through eight different stations; each dedicated to a different human body part. They will learn about each organ and its function, how outside factors can affect them, and how they develop throughout their lifetime. *PARENTS: PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT REAL BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS WILL BE PRESENTED TO YOUR CHILDREN.

School of Continuing Studies
Location: 688 Sherbrooke

Participants will be given a general overview of what goes on behind the scenes in computer security, credit card transactions. They will be provided with basic cryptographic and security based knowledge to do their own computer forensics. Note: they will not be taught how to hack a computer.

Office of Sponsored Research, VP Research and International Relations
Location: Rutherford Physics Building, Piano Room (211)

What makes an invention? What makes this unique? Who would buy this? How fo you protect your invention? Do you think that you have an invention? Come witness a demonstration an invention that was developed in the laboratory and learn how to move from an idea to an invention and finally, to market.

Organizational Development, HR
Location: 688 Sherbrooke

Through an interactive workshop format, you will learn tips & tricks to help you successfully prepare a CV and prepare for job Interviews aligned with their needs and interests.

Make your own book
Education Library

Learn to cut & fold instant books, accordion books & more! Participants will use ordinary & recycled materials to make one-of-a-kind creations.

Redpath Museum Tour
Redpath Museum

Take a stroll around our museum to see our extensive fossil collection, animal skeletons and other scientific artifacts. Please note that staff will be present to answer any questions.

School of Continuing Studies
Location: 688 Sherbrooke

Collect your “passport” and follow the path to begin your journey. Explore workshops on diverse languages and cultures from mini-language courses to Arabic calligraphy, Japanese origami, songs/dances from Latin America, and more. Collect stamps in your “passport” for each activity you complete!

Schulich School of Music
Location: Strathcona Music Building, Clara Lichtenstein Hall – C209

Listen to examples of musique concrete and talk about music compostition. Explore a range of everyday objects to see what kinds of noises they can make. We will record and import these sounds into a computer to create our own music composition.

Faculty of Science (Physics Department)
Location: Rutherford Physics Building

Participants make their own model comets using everyday ingredients and dry ice

Faculty of Engineering
Location: Frank Adams Building, FDA 5

Includes 4 fun activities: Engineering Information Station (different careers in Engineering), Cookie Mining (Timed limit on extracting cookie chunks from cookie), Marshmallow tower building competeition, Hot Ice Demo (What makes a Hand-Warmer Hot?)

Enrolment Services
Location: Service Point

Starting at McGill’s welcome center, take a 45-minute walking tour of the downtown campus with a student tour guide. You’ll learn some history about McGill and visit where students study and hang out. If you tell us where your parent works, we’ll try to point out the building!

Faculty of Engineering
Location: School of Architecture, Room B01

Interact with one of the most sophisticated robots at McGill University. See how we now digitally model objects in 3 dimensions and then instruct the robot to sculpt the object in a block of foam. During the visit, you will also learn the potential of such technology in our daily life and in the field of construction and architecture

Faculty of Arts
Location: Leacock 720

See the stone tools and how they were used in pre-historic times. Create your own stone tools and get an introduction to fossils in the Dept. of Anthropology's fossil lab!

Schulich School of Music
Location: Strathcona Music Building, Piano Studio – C420

Come prepared with a piano, vocal or instrumental piece that will be worked on with (and accompanied by) Professor Laimon. Discuss musical style, performance, and the role of collaboration in your performance. *Please bring a piece of sheet music with you to this session

McGill Food and Dining Services
Location: RVC Cafeteria Kitchen

Ever wonder how you can make a delicious pizza even better? Come and create your own healthy pizza from dough to cheese, and cook it in time to enjoy for lunch. There may even be enough to share!

School of Continuing Studies
Location: 688 Sherbrooke

How to navigate through the world of Social Media. You will learn how to research, link up with others, and how to influence change through social media. You will also learn how to safely use this technology and how to protect yourself fromsome of the misuses of social media

Desautels Faculty of Management
Location: Bronfman Building 310

Witness the digital music research that is going on at McGill. Learn how how research about digital music can affect you and get a concrete idea of what "cool" Information Systems/Marketing research is all about!

Faculty of Engineering
Location: Macdonald Engineering, 152

Through an indepth tour of a real aerodynamics lab to the creation of your own plane, come learn how scientists at McGill are changing the way you fly.

Faculty of Medicine
Location: Strathcona Anatomy and Denistry Building, Reading Room

Come discover what you look like on the inside! You're invited to go through eight different stations; each dedicated to a different human body part. They will learn about each organ and its function, how outside factors can affect them, and how they develop throughout their lifetime. *PARENTS: PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT REAL BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS WILL BE PRESENTED TO YOUR CHILDREN.

Make your own book
Education Library
Location: Campus/Lower Field

Learn to cut & fold instant books, accordion books & more! Participants will use ordinary & recycled materials to make one-of-a-kind creations.

Redpath Museum Tour
Redpath Museum
Location: Redpath Museum

Take a stroll around our museum to see our extensive fossil collection, animal skeletons and other scientific artifacts. Please note that staff will be present to answer any questions.

Schulich School of Music
Location: Wirth Opera Studio (527 Sherbrooke)

"What's an Opera, Doc?" Experience live, loud, opera singing and learn the difference between an aria and a baritone, a prop and a libretto. Join members of Opera McGill as they perform a fun-filled, inter-active workshop about opera and the life of opera singers! Your group will brainstorm a simple story with characters and through improvisation the opera will be performed live on the spot!

Faculty of Science
Location: Redpath Museum

Tour the dinosaur skeletons at the Redpath Museum with interactive games. Followed by a change to handle some of the dinosaur fossils and bones!

Office of the Dean of Students and Faculty of Education
Location: Brown Building, Room 3001

Using interactive skits, ‘what would you do’ scenarios and other fun and creative activities, learn about how to prevent cyber bullying, online safety, and responsible uses of social media like Facebook! Be ready to participate in this informative, hands-on, lively session!

McGill Library
Location: McLennan Library, 4th floor, rm 17B

Participants will learn about digitization at the library and see the automatic page turning book scanner in action. They will also have the chance to animate their own drawings by scanning them into the computer and creating a digital flip book.

Science
Location: Otto Maass Chemistry Building, room 100 and 121

Throw on your goggles and create your own slime and nylon compounds! Get a tour of McGill's chemistry labs. Finish off with a demonstration of how Atomic Emission Spectroscopy works - using chemicals and light to determine what something is made of!

Faculty of Engineering
Location: School of Architecture, Room B01

Interact with one of the most sophisticated robots at McGill University. See how we now digitally model objects in 3 dimensions and then instruct the robot to sculpt the object in a block of foam. During the visit, you will also learn the potential of such technology in our daily life and in the field of construction and architecture

McGill Library
Location: Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McIntyre Building

Come for a brief tour of one of McGill's most fascinating collections. See an old amputation kit, ancient clay tablets & an assortment of other medical treasures. After the tour, learn to be a medieval doctor. Once you're qualified, jump in to diagnose patients by learning to read astrological charts and do a medieval urine analysis. That's right, we'll be figuring out our patient's problems by looking at pee. Participants will earn a diploma.

Emergency Measures and Fire Prevention Office
Location: Leacock 132

A simulated zombie apocalypse will inform participants on how to prepare for emergencies and promote self-sufficiency in times of crisis.

Schulich School of Music
Location: Strathcona Music Building, Studio A – C200

You will get the chance to play the piano, sing, or read a text. After some editing techniques are demonstrated, an investigation of the recorded sound will ensue, including close and distant perspectives based on multiple microphone choices and placements. Equalization, reverberation, delays and other effects will be presented during a short mixing demo to complete the session.

SSAO
Location: 3610 McTavish, Room 430

Money Rules! Be money $mart: This workshop helps you learn the basics of handling money and taking care of your finances. Interactive learning makes finance fun. Join us to learn how to make and save money!

School of Continuing Studies
Location: 688 Sherbrooke

Learn how to build your own personal web page. Participans will be introduced to different web sites and to simple free software tools and templates which help them make their own web page.

Organizational Development, HR
Location: 688 Sherbrooke

Participants will engage in hands-on activities that help them identify the links between areas that they enjoy (e.g. numbers, animals, design, etc.) and possible career paths. They’ll be encouraged to appreciate their strengths TODAY and see possibilities ahead – in terms of student jobs and studies that lead to careers.

Faculty of Law
Location: New Chancellor Day Hall, room 312

Activité bilingue. Come and participate in a mock trial that will be organized and directed by actual McGill law students! Develop your skills to analyze evidence, prepare an argument and plead before the court! We will need lawyers, judges, a jury, and experts. Jeunes francophones bienvenus.

Make your own book
Education Library

Learn to cut & fold instant books, accordion books & more! Participants will use ordinary & recycled materials to make one-of-a-kind creations.

Redpath Museum Tour
Redpath Museum

Take a stroll around our museum to see our extensive fossil collection, animal skeletons and other scientific artifacts. (Self guided tour)

Enrolment Services
Location: Service Point

Starting at McGill’s welcome center, take a 45-minute walking tour of the downtown campus with a student tour guide. You’ll learn some history about McGill and visit where students study and hang out. If you tell us where your parent works, we’ll try to point out the building!