Beginning Friday, Oct 2, Family Weekend will be in full swing. Parents and families of Michigan Tech students will be visiting from the midwest around the country to get a glimpse at what the campus and the community have to offer.
To start off the weekend, Friday, parents are invited to attend class with their students. Following class, Jane Nordberg will present “The History of Winter Carnival” in Dow 641 at 4 p.m. This free presentation will outline how the tradition got started and how it has changed since then. Later, broomball exhibition games and trial are scheduled at the MacInnes Ice Arena to show parents what broomball is all about and to give them a chance to try it out. Meanwhile, “Bandarama,” a concert and a Family Weekend tradition featuring the Superior Wind Symphony, Pep Band, and Jazz Lab Band, will be held at the Rozsa Center. Immediately following the concert, there will be a chance to meet with Michigan Tech faculty, staff and administration at a meet and greet, which will take place in the lower lobby and newly opened art gallery in the Rozsa Center. This will also feature an art exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service entitled “The Dancer Within.” Other Friday night activities include Filmboard’s showing of Disney/Pixar’s “UP” and free Student Activities Comedy Series (SACS) Comedian Adam Ace who is performing at 10 pm in the MUB ballroom.
On Saturday, there are tours scheduled all over the Copper Country, including a chair lift color tour at Mont Ripley, a Hungarian Falls hike, a Sturgeon River paddling trip, and Quincy Mine tours throughout the afternoon. In the evening, the Michigan Tech hockey team will kick of the season with their first exhibition game against Ryerson University. The Michigan Tech Mom and Dad of the Year, a title received by student nominations, will be announced at intermission, as well as the 2009 Homecoming Court. If theater is more your forte, The Reduced Shakespeare Company will perform “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged),” a comedy based on short summaries of Shakespeare’s works, on the Rozsa Center stage.
Family Weekend will wrap up on Sunday, with the Keweenaw Brunch, held from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. There will still be opportunity take a quick tour of the Copper Country, as some tours will be scheduled through the afternoon.
For more information, visit the Family Weekend website at www.familyweekend.mtu.edu.