Brain food for all tastes at Albany Open Day

Designing a new Super City logo design, creating a car, reading the news in a simulated television studio or playing an investment game are just some of the hands-on activities at the Albany campus open day on Saturday.

Music, mathematics, English literature, evolutionary genetics, finance and food technology are among the range of courses and programmes that will be showcased through interactive demonstrations, lectures and fun events.

Prospective transport, industrial and visual design students can attend a portfolio workshop, or learn how to design a car using professional modelling clay at the School of Design in Albany village. The school is also running a logo design competition for the new Super City, with the best three to be professionally worked up and presented to the new council. And would-be fashion designers can catch a video of the latest student fashion show from the Wellington campus, where fashion design is offered.

Those interested in a speech language therapy, a specialised four-year programme offered at the campus, can observe professionals working in a clinical setting at the School of Education.

Find out more about the world's most abundant bird in a behavioural ecology lecture, or what is really in your food, and meet Nicole –the virtual human robot. A full programme of lectures on a range of science disciplines, including nutrition, exercise and sport, food technology, as well as engineering subjects such as construction, electronics and computer engineering will run throughout the day.

Jazz musicians keen to study at the New Zealand School of Music, jointly run by Massey and Victoria Universities, can meet leading musicians, composers and musicologists or enrol in one of the jazz workshops available on the day for piano, bass, drums, vocal and guitar. To enrol for a workshop email Trudy Lile: trudy.lile@nzsm.ac.nz, before Saturday.

A "covert marketing" video game and New Zealand Investment game are among activities at the College of Business, as well as seminars on finance, marketing, management and entrepreneurship, aviation, accountancy, communication and business information systems.

The Recreation Centre is the venue for a high-action, team-based robotics competition and, for a complete departure from cerebral preoccupations, try out a free belly dancing class for an hour starting at 10.15am.

Massey's e-centre, where entrepreneurs turn business brilliance and technological dreams into commercial realities, will also be open to visitors.

For more information on Open Day, or to register, go to www.massey.ac.nz - keyword: Open Day