The 10th annual ACES Open House was held Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the south end of campus. The main thing is to let people know what the college of ACES has to offer. Young and old alike saw what ACES offered, as Scottie Miller, associate director of development and director of special events for the college of ACES, said buses of school children come for field trips on Friday while Saturday saw more of a family crowd. She said students came from as far away as Chicago for the open house, and some of these students had never seen some of the animals featured there, such as cows or sheep. Miller also said the exhibits are designed to help people realize the importance of agriculture.
Agriculture cuts across everyone's life.
We want to educate people, we want them to be interested and we want it to be fun. Janet Utterback, administrative aide in the college of ACES, said the open house is not really hurt by the engineering open house, but gives people a chance to see both in one weekend. She also said the ACES open house gave visitors a chance to see what their tax dollars are paying for. We are a state institution, everybody owns this place. Exhibits on insects and a flower arrangement demonstration were featured at the Plant Sciences Laboratory.