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Your Path to CALS
Unpacking boxes today, growing the future tomorrow. 📦🐺 Happy move-in weekend, Wolfpack, from all of us here at CALS!
It’s time to welcome the CALS Pack home. 🐺🏡 During Wolfpack Welcome Weeks, from Aug. 13–28, there are dozens of campus events and experiences going on to help you get fired up for the start of a great school year.
📆 Save the date for some essential #NCStateWWW events:
🐺 New Student Convocation | Sunday, Aug. 16 at 3 p.m. in Reynolds Coliseum
Kick off your first year on campus, #NCState30, with thousands of your new classmates and tons of Wolfpack spirit.
🐺 CALS Corner at Packapalooza | Saturday, Aug. 22 from 2–6 p.m. in the parking lot outside Patterson Hall
NC State’s all-day block party is an event you don’t want to miss. Join us at the CALS Corner to learn all about CALS, play fun games, receive a free CALS bucket hat with a student ID and, of course, enjoy some Howling Cow ice cream.
🐺 CALS Connection | Tuesday, Aug. 25 from 2–4 p.m. in Talley Student Union, Coastal Ballroom
Connect with all things CALS at our CALS Connection event. Here you can meet dozens of CALS clubs and student orgs, learn about academic programs and wellness resources, say hello to fellow CALS students and more. There will be free Howling Cow ice cream and CALS t-shirts available for students while supplies last.
Find the full #NCStateWWW schedule at the 🔗 in our bio.
An internship at NASA has given CALS student Sawyer Exum an out-of-this-world opportunity to research space crop production. 🚀🥬
Exum, a biological and agricultural engineering technology major, has been working alongside scientists and experts this summer to tackle the challenge of growing leafy greens under simulated International Space Station (ISS) conditions. One of the crops they’re studying is Outredgeous lettuce, a bright red, sweet-tasting variety that made history in 2015 as the first plant grown and eaten by astronauts aboard the ISS.
"I want to push the boundaries of science and technology with applied research. If that path leads to becoming an astronaut, that would be incredible," he said. "Being here and working with NASA research scientists who are open to having conversations has made that goal feel more attainable."
Check out the link in our bio to read more about his summer at NASA.
