A summer mentorship program hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Open Source Program Office
🍀Nia 🔰
📸Devon🐆
⭐️Kaylee🎨
🎸Silas 📸
Map of campus and town, including bike paths, foot paths, roads, and more (via OpenStreetMap)
- Transit app to help use the metro. Enter a location and choose from a list of routes.
- GET APP used to track different dining point balances.
- Summer Recreation (campus gym) hours
- Summer dining hours (Note: Nine/Lewis and Porter dining halls are also open around mealtimes)
- Laundry App (Note: Sign up for $5 Laundry Credit. Scroll down if there's no pop-up)
- Conference Services After Hours (for lockouts or other housing needs): (831) 332-0705
- Community Safety Officer (CSO) dispatch (for safety assistance, noise complaints, etc. 7pm-3am): (831) 459-2100
There's a lot to explore right here in Santa Cruz! Good Times (a free local weekly paper) publishes a weekly events calendar.
Here are some other popular summer activities:
- Thursday night concerts on the colonnade (free, near the Boardwalk)
- Community concerts and shows almost every night at Abbott Square in Downtown (free)
- Friday night movies on the beach (free, near the Boardwalk)
- Walk around downtown with ice cream from Penny Ice Creamery or Mission Hill Creamery
- Wander one of the local Farmers' Markets (Westside or Downtown locations)
- Learn to surf at Cowell's Beach
- Go for a hike on Upper Campus, connecting to either Wilder Ranch State Park or Pogonip (at Pogonip, try to find the koi pond or the historic lime kilns!)
- Visit the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk for rides, games, laser tag, mini golf, and amusement park food
- Explore UCSC's own Arboretum gardens
- Learn to dance Bachata, a Latin American social dance! Beginner class on the Westside every Tuesday at 7pm at Swift St Fitness: 509 Swift St., Unit H, (donation based)
- Learn Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art, Mondays - Thursdays at 6pm at Raizes Do Brasil: 207 McPherson St. (first class free, and ask for a student discount for future classes)
- Watch (or participate in) Salsa dancing on Tuesdays 7pm - 10pm at Abbott Square (free, in Downtown)
- Visit the iconic Natural Bridges State Beach. If you go during low tide, try going north up the coast to see tide pools with crabs, urchins, and starfish
- Try rock climbing at the local climbing gym, Pacific Edge. Website for hours and rates
Many open source communities love emoji!
Here's how to quickly access the emoji keyboards/palettes on various operating systems:
- In macOS, hold down
Cntrl + Cmd + Space Bar. Click and hold on an emoji to select a skintone. - In Windows, hold down
Windows key + .
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 2347360. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.