Children will be able to get a hands-on lesson in solar energy and radiation when visiting the San Luis Obispo Children’s Museum once it reopens, thanks to a giant solar-powered sunflower fountain that was the design of a Cal Poly senior project.
The sunflower, which adorns the Nipomo Street side of the museum, features a solar panel in the face of the flower and is connected to a nearby water fountain.
Cal Poly students voiced their concerns over a potential faculty exchange program on Thursday in a town hall-style meeting
Associated Students Inc. Events is hosting a “night of laughter” with comedian Owen Smith tonight, the first show in what will eventually be a series of comedy acts to be featured at Cal Poly.
“A significant portion of requests from the student population have been asking for pure entertainment acts,” said Michele Curro, program coordinator for ASI.
Sustainability efforts on campus aided by interdisciplinary collaborations between
Alan Cushman has a “green mindset.”
As the associate director of Campus Dining
The former Vista Grande Restaurant got a makeover this quarter when Campus Dining
Cal Poly’s Institute of Electrical Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society will host the 14th annual Roborodentia contest Saturday, a hectic competition in which autonomous robots face off in a quasi-table tennis match.
“This is one of the biggest events that the College of Engineering puts on during Open House,” said John Seng, a computer engineering professor and faculty adviser to the IEEE Computer Society.
A spectacle of dirt, horsepower and diesel exhaust will take place Saturday afternoon, as the Cal Poly Tractor Pull Club hosts the annual Open House Truck and Tractor Pull at the pull site near the crops unit.
With a tradition that dates back to the East Coast in the late 1960s, the tractor pull has become a definitive event for both Cal Poly as well as the greater California agriculture scene.
The Cal Poly baseball team won its second-straight Tuesday night, hanging on to an initially wide lead to defeat non-conference opponent Fresno State at Baggett Stadium, 8-5. In a game that saw 14 different pitchers, four stolen bases and 18 strikeouts between the two teams, Cal Poly was able to build an early lead in the first inning.
A national touring panel shared its opinions about hip-hop, youth vote activism and how they relate to the 2008 presidential election on Tuesday night in Fisher Science room 286.
While much of the forum, “Rap Sessions: Community Dialogues on Hip-Hop,” centered on how Americans ages 35 and under have come to be defined as the so-called “hip-hop generation,” other hot topics included the prevalence of race consciousness in American society as well as voter apathy.
One could call jazz drummer Mike Raynor an opportunist – he’s capitalized on where he lives in order to enhance his own musical abilities while enlivening the Central Coast music scene at the same time. Raynor has successfully done this with his City Nights Jazz concert series, a set of shows performed on a monthly basis in Morro Bay and Pismo Beach that feature some of the country’s top jazz musicians as they tour the West Coast.