Workshops
1 — Exploring Careers in Fish and Wildlife Science and Management (20 seats available at 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.)
Presented by the College of Natural Resources
- Come learn about possible careers in fish and wildlife. Experience some hands-on exercises with wildlife telemetry and skulls/hides in this engaging workshop.
2 — Cows, Up Close and Personal (30 seats available at 5 p.m.)
Presented by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences — Department of Animal, Veterinary and Food Sciences
- Explore the imaging technique that uses high-frequency sound waves reflecting off internal body parts to create images for medical examinations. This technique will be used on dairy cows to demonstrate the advantages in diagnoses during gestation. Exciting part... you can discover the gender of the fetus.
3 — Veterinary Medicine (15 seats available at 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.)
Presented by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences — Department of Animal, Veterinary and Food Sciences
- Come join this opportunity to perform common veterinary technical tasks. You will be able to identify tools used in the profession and identify external and internal parasites of livestock and companion animals.
4 — Tough or Tender (30 seats available at 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.)
Presented by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences — Department of Animal, Veterinary and Food Sciences
- Explore the basic building blocks of beef that lead to a desirable eating experience. By the end of the workshop, participants will understand how support vs. locomotive muscles impact tenderness, why marbling is important to eating experience and walk away with an appreciation for tasty beef.
5 — Textile Dyeing (20 seats available at 4 p.m.)
Presented by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences — Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences' Apparel, Textiles and Design program
- Learn how to dye fabric using natural and synthetic dyes to create custom apparel.
6 — Allergens and the Food Industry (30 seats available at 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.)
Presented by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences — Department of Animal, Veterinary and Food Sciences
- In this workshop, we will discuss some things that the food industry does to keep our food supply safe. We will perform simple surface testing to detect gluten and protein contamination applying up-to-date testing methods used in the food industry.
7 — Iron Chef — Building Culinary Skills: Baking Biscuits (20 seats available at 4 p.m.)
Presented by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences — Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences' Food and Nutrition program
Want to expand your culinary skills? Ready to learn the secret to baking flaky biscuits? Then this workshop is for you. Join our food and nutrition faculty and students in the Carmelita Spencer Foods Laboratory for a hands-on culinary class focused on biscuit making.
8 — The Modern Era of Genetic Engineering — Better Food for a Better World (30 seats available at 4 p.m.)
Presented by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences — Department of Plant Sciences
- Over the course of thousands of years, people living in the wetlands of Southeast Asia, the fields of the Eastern Mediterranean, the highlands of Ethiopia and the valleys of Mexico, identified wild plants and reshaped them into the crops we know today. They did this by setting aside a few seeds from their best performing individuals to serve as founders for the next generation. Today we would say they manipulated the best sets of genes they could find within each crop species. Although they might not have understood genetics as we do, this is essentially the same strategy we use today. However, unlike all who preceded us, we have the ability to also incorporate genes from other species to make crops more disease resistant, with better nutrition, more productive and better able to survive hostile environmental conditions than either natural or artificial selection has previously done. Come and hear this story.
9 — Human Relationships, Up Close and Personal (30 seats available at 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.)
Presented by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences — Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences' Human Development and Family Studies program
- All that mushy stuff. Let’s talk heathy relationships.
10 — The Fascinating World of Insects (20 seats available at 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.)
Presented by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences — Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Nematology
- An introduction to the astonishing diversity of insects and their services to our environment, followed by the handling of live exotic giant Australian stick insects, in the Barr Entomological Museum.
11 — Exploring Careers and Majors (30 seats available at 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.)
Presented by University of Idaho Career Services
- Learn how your values, interests and preferences can direct you toward a satisfying career. No matter what your post-high school plans are, in this interactive workshop, you’ll learn more about yourself, your peers and the world of work.
12 — Careers in Nutrition and Dietetics Panel (30 seats available at 5 p.m.)
Presented by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences — Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences' Food and Nutrition program
- Are you interested in health and wellness? Have you ever wondered what type of career you could have with a degree in food and nutrition? A small group of registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) will be here to tell you about their exciting journeys.
13 — Horse Judging 101 (25 seats available at 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.)
Presented by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences — Department of Animal, Veterinary and Food Sciences
- This session will discuss ways to evaluate horse conformation and movement, including form to function and preparing and presenting oral reasons.