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Guided Campus Tours (10 – 11:15 a.m. | 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. | 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | 12 – 1:15 p.m.) Homecoming Registration Desk in the 1st Choice Savings Centre for Sport and Wellness

A lot has changed on campus over the past 50 years. Guided tours will take you on a journey as you learn about the history of our iconic campus landmarks and sneak a peek into the future with the Destination Project. Campus tours will meet near the the Tim Hortons in the 1st Choice Savings Centre for Sport and Wellness.

Augmented Reality Sandbox Tour (10 a.m. - 12 p.m.) Alberta Water & Environment Science Building foyer

Sign up to tour Dr. Craig Coburn’s Lab in the Alberta Water and Environmental Science Building and get the chance to experience the Augmented Reality Sandbox. This terrain and topography simulation device is one of only two in Alberta so you won’t want to miss it! See if you can complete Dr. Coburn’s challenge of recreating the topography of Lethbridge. After you’re done there, see the imaging systems students and faculty use in their research, including the sensors from the low-orbit balloon launched by GIS students just last summer.

Fine Arts Tour (10 - 11 a.m.) University Centre for the Arts Atrium

Step into the shoes of a fine arts student with a tour of some of southern Alberta’s finest production and performance facilities. Peek behind the curtains of the 400-seat University Theatre to discover the prop and costume shops that U of L students and instructors use every year to bring theatrical productions to life. Hear a performance in the recently renovated 200-seat Recital Hall or head upstairs to visit Studio One - the most advanced academic-based recording studio in Western Canada. Venture into the heart of the University Centre for the Arts where every year student and faculty artists create with canvas, wood, ceramics and cast bronze. Make sure you stop at the Game Research Lab, home to one of Alberta’s largest research video game collections. Be sure to keep your eyes open, because hidden in plain sight is southern Alberta’s smallest exhibition space: The Niche Gallery!

Trading Centre Tour (11 a.m. - 12 p.m.) Centre for Financial Market Research and Teaching (Markin Hall)

Step into Western Canada’s first and most advanced market simulators at the U of L’s Centre for Financial Market Research and Teaching! Part of the Faculty of Management’s commitment to learning by doing, this simulated trading floor features a 30-foot full colour LED ticker, two video display walls with access to the latest news and financial information as well as 48 workstations loaded with the most advanced market simulation training software available. Get first-hand experience learning how trading works, without putting your retirement at risk, with pre-designed trading scenarios assisted by the same instructors that teach hundreds of finance majors every year! Out compete your fellow tour members and you can win an official U of L Faculty of Management reversible Bull/Bear puppet as your symbol of mastery of the market!

AGILITY Tours (10 – 10:30 a.m. - AGILITY Creative Problem Solving Workshop, 10:30 – 11 a.m. - AGILITY Prototyping Workshop, 11 – 11:30 a.m. - AGILITY Pitching Workshop, 11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. - AGILITY Open Makerspace) Markin Hall Idea Shop (M2039)

A way to get students to put ideas into practice, the AGILITY Makerspace lets students work together to problem solve, brainstorm solutions, develop prototypes and develop business plans to present for investment; all skills needed in today’s entrepreneur-driven business world! Sign up for one of three Makerspace workshops that will give you the same experiences U of L students get, or take a general overview where you can see how all three experiences work together. The three workshops include Creative Problem Solving where your tour group will be given the chance to explore solutions to the problems facing the world today, Prototyping where your group can turn its ideas into a tangible concept using everything from 3D printers to paper to LEGO, and Pitching where you and your group will be given business plans and will have to devise a business plan and then pitch it to get it approved for investment. Sorry, Dragons not included!

Neuroscience & Chemistry Tours (10 - 11:30 a.m.) Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience (CCBN)

Visit the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, one of the most advanced neuroscience research facilities in Canada. The tour starts with the University 3T MRI Centre, a world-class diagnostic imaging and research facility that provides public access to scans using three Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging (3T MRI), the most powerful MRI machine in southern Alberta. Next is the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility. A great example of interdisciplinary research at the U of L, the NMR facility is used by several departments in both the Faculty of Arts & Sciences and the Faculty of Health Sciences. The research carried out in this facility has implications ranging from the oil sands, clean energy and plastics production to personalized and diagnostic medicine. Walk through the design of a super-conducting NMR magnet, the NMR probe and explore research being carried out in the facility.