College-Wide Open House
Western Technical College is hosting a college-wide open house on Thursday, Oct. 22. All campuses and learning centers will offer tours, refreshments, and door prizes. This is your chance to find out about Western’s credit programs, non-credit classes, business training opportunities, and more!
The event will kick off at the La Crosse campus at 9:00 a.m. with the grand opening of the Lunda Center.
Stop by anytime during the open house and find out what Western has to offer in your community!
Open House times:
La Crosse Main Campus -- 9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
- Lunda Center Ribbon Cutting at 9:00 a.m.
- Demonstrations and hands-on activities throughout the day. Click here for details.
- Information tables located throughout the campus
- Transportation provided to Automotive/Diesel Campus
- Transportation provided to the Health Science Center
Regional Learning Centers
Black River Falls -- 1:00-6:00 p.m.
Independence -- 1:00-6:00 p.m.
Mauston -- 12:30-5:30 p.m.
Tomah -- 2:00-6:00 p.m.
Viroqua -- 4:00-6:00 p.m.
All Day Activities - 9 a.m.-7 p.m.
Accounting display
Business Education Center - First Floor Hallway
Display on Western's Agribusiness program
Coleman Center - Room 137
Assorted historical business equipment/supplies display
Business Education Center - First Floor Hallway - South End
Campus Shop
Campus bookstore will be open. Purchase books, Western apparel, and supplies.
Kumm Center - 1st Floor
Early Childhood Education
The CCE classrooms will be open all day with display boards.
Center for Childhood Education - Room 102
Graphic Design
Tour the new Creative Center in the Graphic Design Department. This Creative Center offers students a place to congregate, collaborate, and increase their creative energy as they work on their art and design projects. New technology includes an open Mac lab with 16 new computers and software, digital drawing tablets for students to borrow, and a new wide-screen TV with interactive Flash movies delivering program information to current students, high school students, and new students going through orientation.
Coleman Center - Room 109
Instructional Assistant
Stop by the Center for Childhood Education to look at our unique hallway display. Learn about the Instructional Assistant program, view student work samples and enjoy our comfortable learning environment.
Center for Childhood Education - Hallway and Room 120
Landscape Horticulture
Displays of student work featuring graphic skills, as well as actual lanscape designs. Literature about the program will also be available.
Coleman Center - 1st floor southern hallway
Landscape Horticulture Club
Display on the student club and the activities where students served the community over the last several years.
Coleman Center - 1st floor southern hallway>
Mechanical Design Technology
Display on the student club and the activities where students served the community over the last several years.
Coleman - Room 230
Paralegal
The Legal World display - Where can you find a Paralegal?
Business Education Center - First Floor Hallway
Parent Child Center
Door prize drawing, display and information table about PCC - In addition to offering affordable, high quality care, the center is the lab for the College’s associate’s degree program in Early Childhood Education, as well as a site for the La Crosse School District’s 4-year-old preschool program.
Center for Childhood Education
Respiratory Therapist
This is Respiratory Care Week! Come celebrate with us and explore some of the things a respiratory therapist does. You can: Ventilate Babe, the big lung; try on a vest that shakes lung secretions loose; see the newest technology in respirators and an old one made from a washing machine; check your inhaler technique or measure your peak flow; and use a stethoscope to listen to normal and abnormal lung sounds.
Kumm Center - Room 201
Supervisory Management
The Supervisory Management Experience Display - Discover how you can work full time while earning your associate's degree in Supervisory Management.
Business Education Center - First Floor Hallway
Technical Communications
Write For Your Career! Technical Communications Display
Coleman Center - Room 110
Wellness Center
Guided tours of our on-campus fitness facility. Anyone going on the tour will receive a coupon for a free 2-week trial for any of our group fitness classes, which are open to the public.
Administrative Center
Scheduled Activities
Supervisory Management
9-9:20 a.m - Business Education Center - First Floor Hallway
The Supervisory Management Experience presentation - Talk to instructor Josh Gamer and discover how you can work full time while earning your associate's degree in Supervisory Management.
Parent Child Center
9-10 a.m. - Parent Child Center
Tours of the Parent Child Center - In addition to offering affordable, high quality care, the center is the lab for the College’s associate’s degree program in Early Childhood Education, as well as a site for the La Crosse School District’s 4-year-old preschool program.
Clinical Lab Technician
9-11 a.m. - Health Science Center - 5069
Interactive microscope and display. Transportation will be provided to this off-campus facility.
Disability Support Specialist
9-11 a.m. - Health Science Center - Room 4022
Participants will get a glimpse of what it might be like to have a variety of disabilities such as schizophrenia, physical limitations, visual impairments, hearing impairments, communication impairments and learning disabilities. Part of the Disability Support Specialist Program's October Disability Awareness Month activities that are open to all. Transportation will be provided to this off-campus facility.
Culinary Management and Food Production Specialist
9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. - Kumm Center Basement and First Floor
Visitors will have the opportunity to see students working in the food labs, quantity production kitchen, gourmet kitchen and student restaurant.
Automotive Technician/Diesel & Heavy Equipment Technician
9 a.m.- 5 p.m. - Auto/Diesel Technology Center
Facility tours by Auto/Diesel staff and students. Transportation will be provided to this off-campus facility.
Supervisory Management
10-10:20 a.m. - Business Education Center - First Floor Hallway
The Supervisory Management Experience presentation - Talk to instructor Josh Gamer and discover how you can work full time while earning your associate's degree in Supervisory Management.
Web and Software Developer
10 a.m.-1 p.m. - Business Education Center - Room 19
Visit Western's Game Programming Lab where students in the Web and Software Developer program learn advanced computer programming concepts by programming games on personal computers and Microsoft Xbox 360 gaming consoles. Student developed games will be available for demonstration purposes.
Mechanical Design Technology
10:30-Noon - Coleman Center - Room 230
Design Your Future - visit with an instructor and view a display featuring a video, slide show and rapid promotype machine.
Early Childhood Education
11-11:30 a.m. - Center for Childhood Education - Room 102
Join the Math/Science/Social Studies class as we explore hands-on learning center for preschool children. Today's class will focus on a variety of ways to introduce numbers, counting, and numerals to children. The ideas are play-based and meet a variety of learning styles.
Electronic & Computer Engineering Technology, Elecromechanical Technology, and Electronic Systems Installation & Maintenance
11:30-Noon - Kumm Center - Room 307
Stop by the electronics lab to see demonstrations of student projects and information regarding program offerings.
Supervisory Management Business Education Center
11:30-11:50 a.m. - First Floor Hallway
The Supervisory Management Experience presentation - Talk to instructor Josh Gamer and discover how you can work full time while earning your associate's degree in Supervisory Management.
Wellness Center
11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. - Administrative Center
Free Pilates group fitness class. Class is 45-minutes and open to the public.
Marketing
Noon-1 p.m. - Business Education Center - Room 114
PSA - Marketing students' real world project: Come watch Public Service Announcements made for Wisconsin Career and Technical Education Association. These 30 second ads were created with the Visual Communications students, who offered technical expertise.
Disability Support Specialist
12-1:30 p.m. - Kumm Center Bistro - Room 10
Attendees will enjoy a free lunch while carrying on conversations without using spoken language. Come use alternative and augmentative communication modes and learn/use a bit of sign language. Part of the Disability Support Specialist program's October Disability Awareness Month activites that are open to all.
Mechanical Design Technology
12:30-2 p.m. - Coleman Center - Room 230
Design Your Future - visit with an instructor and view a display featuring a video, slide show and rapid prototype machine.
Supervisory Management
1-1:20 p.m. - Business Education Center - First Floor Hallway
The Supervisory Management Experience presentation - Talk to instructor Josh Gamer and discover how you can work full time while earning your associate's degree in Supervisory Management.
Electronic & Computer Engineering Technology, Elecromechanical Technology, and Electronic Systems Installation & Maintenance
2:30-3 p.m. - Kumm Center - Room 307
Stop by the electronics lab to see demonstrations of student projects and information regarding program offerings.
Parent Child Center
3-3:15 p.m. - Parent Child Center
Join the children of Parent Child Center for an entertaining storytime led by PCC teacher Becky Banasik. A snack will follow.
Web and Software Developer
3-5 p.m. - Business Education Center - Room 19
Visit Western's Game Programming Lab where students in the Web and Software Developer program learn advanced computer programming concepts by programming games on personal computers and Microsoft Xbox 360 gaming consoles. Student-developed games will be available for demonstration purposes.
Mechanical Design Technology
4-4:30 p.m. - Coleman Center - Room 230
Design Your Future - visit with an instructor and view a display featuring a video, slide show and rapid prototype machine.
Agri-Business/Science Technology
4:30-7 p.m. - Coleman Center - Room 137
Chat with instructor Warren Pickar about Western's Agribusiness program and related careers.
Wellness Center
4:30-5:15 p.m. - Administrative Center
Free Yoga Fusion group fitness class. Class is 45-minutes and open to the public.
Surgical Technologist
5-7 p.m. - Kumm Center - Room 401
Virtual Surgery - Would you like to see how it feels of be a part of the Surgical Team in the Operating Room? Come and see what happens during surgery. You will dress as surgeons and nurses do, handle surgical instrumentation, see what sutures looks like, and pretend to do an actual surgical procedure on an abdominal simulator. Our lab is set up just like the real thing!
Supervisory Management
5:30-7 p.m. - Business Education Center - Room 112
Are you an adult considering coming back to school? Come talk with current adult stuents and/or observe a class to see how school may be different from how you remember it. At 5:30, the students you will have conversation with are students who are currently in the Supervisory Management Program. At the 6 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. sessions you will have the opportunity to observe a management class in action.
Electronic & Computer Engineering Technology, Elecromechanical Technology, and Electronic Systems Installation & Maintenance
6:00-6:30 p.m. - Kumm Center - Room 307
Stop by the electronics lab to see demonstrations of student projects and information regarding program offerings.
