Open house draws prospective students
A total of 69 students from at least three countries visited Friday, 17 February 2006 , for AIT's first open house.
Visitors were greeted in the morning by staff and student volunteers. More than 40 students volunteered to help guide prospective students and answer questions throughout the day.
The morning session opened with speakers from each school and the Extension as well as speakers on admissions and Royal Thai Government scholarships and fellowships.
Prospective students were then free to tour the separate schools and laboratories and then later simply wander through the campus.
Paradin Juntakhet, a mechatronics master's degree student, explains the concept of a buoy in a tsunami early warning system in a laboratory in the School of Engineering and Technology.
Prospective students gather information and collect brochures outside the School of Environment , Resources and Development.
University students who participated in the AIT open house gather by gyroscopic bicycle and inverted pendulum projects. The gyroscopic bicycle can balance itself by using a gyro-wheel. The invert pendulum can maintain the pendulum rod at the upright position all the time similar to a stick balancing on a hand.