“I Can Do That!”

Tour Site Descriptions

UIC Police: Catch a Crook

Be a star witness and help a police artist create a computerized composite sketch of a suspect. Other high tech equipment and police dispatching will be observed.

Beginning Theater Workshop: movement and improvisation

Fundamentals of acting will be taught through acting and improve games that focus on concentration, imagination, trust, and having fun. Wear loose and comfortable clothes.

Physics: Let There Be Light!

Tour the Physics labs and learn what they’re all about. A laser light show will be included to demonstrate how lasers can be used to create 3-D images.

Computer Center: Design your own web page

Describe your hobbies, interests, school, family, dog –whatever you wish to share with the rest of the World Wide Web. You will upload a photograph of your smiling face too!

Nursing in the Hospital

Tour the UIC Hospital, and you will get first-hand experiences in the Emergency Room (ER) and how nurses work with patients on the floor. Get a chance to “look inside the body” in the X-ray department and check out the inside of an ambulance. Sorry, no driving allowed!

Bite into Dentistry!

Explore how teeth grow by exploring real teeth from sharks, alligators, humans, and more! Get hands-on with real dental tools and learn how to make impressions of teeth.

Art & Design: Creating Your Own Comic Book

UIC’s very own comic book artist and author of the Circle Unleashed and Irresistible Force, Donald McQuay will help you create your own comic book. He will also discuss how to break into the comic book industry.

Stones, Bones and Other Archaeological Treasures: How Archaeologists Work at UIC

Is your idea of a female archaeologist “Lara Croft, Tomb Raider” in the movies? Meet some of the real female archaeologists at UIC and hear about our work in exotic parts of the world and our interesting adventures as we uncover past civilizations through archaeology. We will take a tour of an archaeology lab and show you how we use artifacts to piece together the past lives of people in places like Southeast Asia and the Amazon.

Human Performance Lab: Hi-Tech Fitness at Your Fingertips

Ever wonder how a triathelete trains for the Olympics? Or how your body responds to exercise? Get hands-on with a variety of hi-tech fitness tests for strength, endurance and flexibility. Learn about careers in exercise physiology, physical therapy, personal training, and sports medicine!

Engineering: Electronic Visualization Lab

Experience the combination of computer science, art, and engineering in the Electronic Visualization Lab! Interact with large 3-D graphics on a wall-sized computer screen and play computer games invented by UIC students. Career opportunities will be discussed.