Upcoming Caltech Y Events
5 events
Next week
Prepare and serve dinner to residents of Union Station Adult Center in Pasadena. The Adult Center provides shelter, meals, and supportive services to more than 150 homeless men and women each year. Food and materials are provided.
Join us for a beach day at Malibu Lagoon State Beach on Saturday, August 15th! This beach offers a variety of activities, including tide pooling, birdwatching, and swimming. We will head to the beach early in the morning to catch the low tide and search for sea life. The tide pools are typically rich in sea anemones, crabs, sea hares and the occasional sea star. Malibu Lagoon State Beach is also a tidal wetland that is home to many coastal sea birds that we can observe and identify. We will teach you how to identify coastal birds of California and how to use binoculars. Once the weather begins to warm up will head to the swimming side of the state beach and have a typical beach day. We will head back to Caltech campus around 1 pm.
Week of Sep 6
Prepare and serve dinner to residents of Union Station Adult Center in Pasadena. The Adult Center provides shelter, meals, and supportive services to more than 150 homeless men and women each year. Food and materials are provided.
Week of Sep 20
Join us for an afternoon of service with Arroyo Farms, a local organization that combats food insecurity, teaching students how to grow food organically and care for the environment, through urban agriculture and regenerative living. Their farm labs and outdoor learning gardens give students access to project-based learning opportunities. Arroyo Farms designs and installs drought-tolerant landscapes with California native plants, to build soil, attract pollinators, clean our air, and ultimately transform urban habitats into a thriving ecosystem.
No equipment needed. Just a willingness to get your hands dirty and a desire to make a difference.
First Year Students Only.
Week of Dec 6
The Caltech Y, in partnership with the Caltech SURF Program and the Indian Institute of Technology in Gandhinagar (IITGN), is coordinating a trip to Gandhinagar, India at the start of the winter break, right after Fall 2026 finals. This trip, which is part of an annual Caltech-IITGN Exchange Program, is open to all Caltech undergraduate students.