Teen Conference Tours

Follow the process of making cheese from the finish to the beginning! Start at Ferdinands, the WSU Creamery and learn how milk from the dairy becomes the delicious Cougar Gold. Then, travel to WSU’s dairy to tour the newly upgraded facility and learn about dairy production.

We will begin with a 45-minute tour of our department, Apparel, Merchandising, Design, and Textiles (AMDT), located in Johnson Annex. Following the tour, students will participate in a 75-minute interactive workshop focused on step-by-step fashion croquis drawing techniques. This hands-on activity is designed to spark creativity and introduce students to the art of designing stylish fashion illustrations.

Insects are the most diverse and abundant animals on the planet. WSU entomology professors will lead participants on an exploration of the hidden wonder of these tiny animals all around us. They take you on an insect collecting walk that will end with participants pinning a specimen. Students will learn how to use a variety of insect collecting tools and methods and will pin an insect for preservation and later identification.

Join WSU’s physics department for both a planetarium show and a tour of WSU’s Bat Lab. We are very excited to add this tour stop this year, as the Bat Lab tests baseball and softball bats for

We will tour of the food science and human nutrition building, including some classrooms (the kitchen and teaching lab) as well as the individual labs, including dairy microbiology, the sensory department and the grains lab. We will follow the tour with a small presentation in the SFS kitchen in the FSHN building about the food science industry and Cougar Gold cheese and kefir research. We will then do some taste-test activities.

Step into the world of the WSU Veterinary School with interactive workshops using simulation to practice different ways that veterinary professionals care for patients! Get to know current WSU CVM students and staff while you learn!  Activities will take place in the newly renovated Simulation-Based Education clinical skills teaching facilities as well as McCoy Hall, and you MUST wear closed-toe shoes to participate.

Students will get a chance to tour WSU’s Meat’s Lab followed by Make and Take Sausage Making – back by popular demand!

Learn about WSU’s music program and tour it’s state-of-the-art facilities on campus. Whether you are interested in music as a career, as a hobby or you simply enjoy listening to music, WSU’s School of Music has opportunities for you!

Get to know WSU through an interactive walking tour focused on identity, community, and service. Visit student cultural centers like Chicanx/Latinx, Native American, First Gen, and Disability Access (learn more at communities.wsu.edu), and meet real WSU students who’ll share what these spaces mean to them. We’ll explore campus community service programs and learn about WSU’s nationally recognized program for students from migrant or seasonal farm-working backgrounds. There’s a place for everyone at WSU–come see how Cougs find their people, make a difference, and help campus feel like home.

Follow the process of making cheese from the finish to the beginning! Start at Ferdinands, the WSU Creamery and learn how milk from the dairy becomes the delicious Cougar Gold. Then, travel to WSU’s dairy to tour the newly upgraded facility and learn about dairy production.

Participants will be given a scenario and will be asked to consider who needs to respond to this scene and what they believe needs to happen in order to get the best possible outcome. There will be a police patrol officer, police K9 officer and dog, the fire department responding to the scene. They will be able to help participants think through the scenario and will then be able to talk more about their jobs and requirements/steps toward a career in their specific jobs.

 Thank you for choosing to visit us here at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories! We’re excited to take you and your group through some of the sights and sounds we experience each day. Helping educate students about electricity, careers, manufacturing, and engineering is part of our mission to make electrical power safer, more reliable, and more economical.

Also back by popular demand, this tour will include physics demonstrations and some other areas of interest from around the College of Sciences.

This tour will explore the many, varied career paths connected to WSU athletics. Participants will walk through some of WSU’s state-of-the-art athletics facilities and get a chance to ask questions about all that goes into the operations of WSU Athletics. Whether you are interested in business, communications, sports medicine, organizational leadership or are even a potential student athlete this tour will have something of interest to you. Go Cougs!

Participants of this tour will see WSU’s Grizzly Bear Research Facility and WSU’s Raptor Center. WSU’s student-led Raptor Club will introduce some of the incredible birds of prey who reside at the center. This presentation is definitely a fan-favorite around campus!

Tour will begin with a short overview of the Eggert Organic Farm and organic agriculture in Washington State. We will then demonstrate the farm’s vermicomposting systems. This includes outdoor worm bins that utilizes plant waste from kitchen and farm to produce a rich microbiological healthy material for use in greenhouse, hoop houses, and field vegetable production. Participants will be able to see worms, vermicompost in the making, and finished product. At the WSU Horticulture Center, we harvest and sell to the public all of the fruit that we grow that is not used for research or teaching. We will look at tree fruit crops on trellises as well as berries and table grapes. We will also see and talk about our windbreak plantings, irrigation systems, deer and rodent control, potted plant area, and newly grafted trees area.