Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc.

10/10/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/11/2024 06:23

Registration Open for Next Week’s Wentworth Weekend, All Are Welcome

October 10, 2024
by Greg Abazorius

Get ready for a weekend of connection, celebration, and discovery!

Wentworth Institute of Technology is hosting a jam-packed weekend Oct. 18-20 filled with exciting events, from campus tours and athletic competitions to alumni panels and off-campus excursions.

Alumni, families, and friends are invited to the inaugural Wentworth Weekend. Events will include an alumni-based"Where are They Now" panel, Accelerate Pitch Round, crafts and family activities, a barbecue, a Class of 1974 50th Reunion, and much more.

Big-Fun Friday

Over three days, guests will have the chance to participate in a variety of activities, starting with campus tours on the morning of Friday, Oct. 18, featuring Wentworth's state-of-the-art Center for Engineering, Innovation, and Sciences (CEIS).

Embrace autumn in the afternoon with the Campus Community Fest. All five academic schools will present ondesign and architecture, engineering, sciences and humanities, computing and data science, and management. And there will be special food and fall activities.

Here'sa peek at what the schools will be up to:

  • Architecture and Design:Working with recyclables with focus on sustainable design

  • Computing and Data Science: Skyscraper puzzle that blends special reasoning with logic

  • Engineering: 15 different student club displays including Baja Car, Concrete Canoe, Steel Bridge, and Underwater ROV

  • Management: Canstruction Build student competition display, a virtual site visit, lab demo, and more, as well as a cybersecurity visualization

  • Sciences and Humanities: Scientific demonstrations centered on physics and a truncated version of Boston 2050: Climate Crisis simulation game

Free campus entertainment in the CEIS lobby will round outFriday.

Super-Packed Saturday

Saturday, Oct. 19 should be one for the ages. A wide range of activities are sure to entertain throughout the day:

  • Coffee with President Thompson

  • Class of 1974 Reunion and Legacy Family Recognition

  • Campus Tours

  • Fall Carnival and BBQ

  • Women's Volleyball and Women's Soccer

  • Leopard Launch Pitch Competition and Student Marketplace

  • Alumni "Where are They Now" Panel

  • Men's Soccer

  • Alumni Basketball and Soccer Games

  • Blue Man Group at the Charles Playhouse

Location, Location, Location (Sunday, Sunday, Sunday)

If you graduated some timeago or simply haven't been back to campus in a while, you might be pleasantly surprised with how much the Wentworth campus and the surrounding area have changed in just a few short years. Or perhaps you're new to Wentworth and still figuring out where all of the cool locations are. Whatever the case, Sunday's Wentworth Weekend schedule has you covered!

Start the day with a continental breakfast in the bright and airy Beatty Pavilion. If you choose to stay on campus for a while, there will be an alumni softball game taking place.

Those who want to explore the city afterwards will have the chance through two different group outings. You may opt for traveling by land and sea through some of Boston's historic sections with a Duck Boat Tour or gain a different type of bird's eye view by traveling to the top of the Prudential Center through the View Boston 360 Experience.

RSVP now to secure your spotat the inaugural Wentworth Weekend!