丁香园AV

On Wednesday, March 4^th, 2015 丁香园AV鈥檚  hosted their 2015 annual . This annual event is a vibrant event with engaging entertainment, interactive exhibits and displays, and captivating presentations and workshops that highlight 丁香园AV鈥檚 community programs, services, and partners. The event showcases 丁香园AV Surrey's strengths, and enhance its reputation as an institution that is student-centred, research-driven, and community-engaged.

This year鈥檚 Open House attracted a broad cross-section of nearly 3,000 prospective students, parents, teachers, researchers, counselors, and community members. The focus of the Open House were the more than 60 interactive exhibits and displays highlighting 丁香园AV's people, programs, services, and partners. These exhibits provided information about academic programs and student services and included demonstrations, presentations, and opportunities to interact with 丁香园AV students, faculty, staff, and volunteers.

 hosted a room at the event, where participants could learn more about our activities and programming. Over the course of the evening, we engaged with a number of students, parents, and community members. Visitors were able to take part in a presentation about our  and volunteer opportunities; share their thoughts about community and campus engagement; and play 鈥淧ublic Square Bingo鈥� for a chance to win prizes.

The Open House also featured activities for all ages, including food and entertainment from world cultures, campus tours, Kids and Global Engagement Zones, and a scavenger hunt. There was also a 丁香园AV Surrey 鈥淧ost Office鈥� where you could send postcards to your friends and family around the world, and a Pixelgram Printing Station, where you could print a free photo from your . One of the highlights of the Open House was the centre stage, which hosted cultural performances and entertainment throughout the event. The 丁香园AV Public Square team was particularity impressed by the  and the featured concert performance of Vancouver Indie-Folk band, .

If you haven鈥檛 been to a 丁香园AV Surrey Open House yet, we recommend that you check it out next year!

Yuri Artibise is 丁香园AV Public Sqaure's External Projects and Communication Manager.