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Campus Activities Board will hold auditions for “106th and NIU: 2000s Tribute” 5-7 p.m. Feb. 23 in the Holmes Student Center, Duke Ellington Ballroom and 6-8 p.m. Feb. 24 in the Holmes Student Center, Carl Sandburg Auditorium. The show, which will feature tribute performances of 2000s culture, will be 7-11 p.m. April 16 in the Holmes Student Center, Duke Ellington Ballroom, according to CAB’s website. Other upcoming CAB events for Spring 2016 include “Love Games” from 7-10 p.m. Wednesday in the Holmes Student Center, Carl Sandburg Auditorium and “Masters of the Mix: Faceoff Edition” 7-10 p.m. March 3 in the Holmes Student Center, Regency Room. For more information about CAB and its upcoming events, go to bit.ly/1KsmALW or email cab@niu.edu. DeKalb
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munity Gardens will hold a potluck organizing meeting for local residents who have a desire to harvest vegetables in their own garden plot this spring. This event will take place 6 p.m. Feb. 16 at the DeKalb Senior Center, 330 Grove St. The garden plots are located on Dresser Road. The plots are 15 feet wide by 30 feet long. The gardens rent for $20 per season. “This is a great opportunity for someone who would like to grow their own garden space and be supported for their first year of gardening and to learn about opportunities that Dresser Garden provides,” said Dan Kenney, executive director of DeKalb County Community Gardens. Contact Dan Kenney at 815793-0950 or dkenney@dekalbgardens.org for more information.
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DeKalb | KishHealth System will hold its “This One’s For the Girls Women’s Health Event” from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Valley West Community Hospital, 15 W. Pleasant St. in Sandwich and 8 a.m. to noon Feb. 19 and 20 at Kishwaukee Hospital, 1 Kish Hospital Drive. This event will feature snacks, giveaways, prizes and free health activities including body mass index measurement, breast selfexam education, depression risk screenings, blood pressure clinics and skin spot checks, according to DeKalb County Online’s website. Call 815-786–3794 in Sandwich or 815-748-2975 in DeKalb and mention that you will be attending this event to schedule your annual mammogram at this event. An additional cost is subject to insurance. Go to bit.ly/209C6OL for preregistration.
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Go to NorthernStar.info/Calendar/ to submit your local event. All events must be submitted two days in advance. Placement is not guaranteed. Tuesday NIU’s Brian Coller and David Gunkel will discuss artificial intelligence, advances in robotics and humanity’s social and ethical responsibilities toward robots during STEM Cafe’s R2D2 and You: How Star Wars Droids are Shaping Robotics
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and Human-Robot Interactions event 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at Two Brothers Roundhouse, 205 N. Broadway in Aurora.
for public interest internship opportunities for NIU Law students during its NIU Law Public Interest Law Society Pizza Sale from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday in Swen Parson Hall, Thurgood The NIU College of Law Public Marshall Gallery. For more inforInterest Law Society will be sell- mation contact Rikkilee Moser at ing pizza and soda to raise money rmoser117@gmail.com.
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