Family Weekend Schedule

Below is a look at the 2025 Schedule:

Friday, Sept. 12 

  • 9 a.m.–5 p.m., MSU Library Gaming Labs
  • 10 a.m.–7 p.m., Check-in at 1855 Place, Room 1000/1001
  • Noon–3 p.m., MSU Memorial Chapel Tours
  • 1–2 p.m., MSU Recycling Tour (ticket required)
  • 1:30–3:30 p.m., Student Organic Farm Tours
  • 1–4 p.m., Beaumont Tower Guard Tours
  • 1–4 p.m., MSU Bug House Tours (ticket required)
  • 1-5 p.m., Family Photos at the Spartan Statue
  • 2–3 p.m., MSU Recycling Tour (ticket required)
  • 2–3 p.m., FRIB Facility Tour (ticket required)
  • 3–3:45 p.m., Virtual FRIB Facility Tour (at Planetarium, ticket required)
  • 3–5 p.m., Demmer Engineering Student Center Tour
  • 4–6 p.m., Gliding Into Fall Family Skate at Munn Ice Arena (ticket required)
  • 4–7 p.m., BealFest, Beal Botanical Garden
  • 4:30–6 p.m., Cooking Demo at Brody (ticket required)
  • 6:30–8:30 p.m., Famticipation and Green & White Night at the MSU Union
  • 7–8:30 p.m., Cooking Demo at Brody (ticket required)

Saturday, Sept. 13

  • 10:30 a.m., Spartan Marching Band game day schedule begins (Munn Field)
  • 11:30 a.m.–4 p.m., The Munn Tailgate, Munn Field (not associated with Family Weekend)
  • 12:30–3:30 p.m., Spartan Family Tailgate, Demonstration Field (credentials and ticket required, re-entry not permitted)
  • 3:30 p.m., Football game kickoff

Sunday, Sept. 14

  • 8:30 a.m., Golf Scramble at Forest Akers West (ticket required)
  • 10 a.m.–2 p.m., Spartan Appreciation Day, East Lansing Farmers Market
  • 10:30 a.m.–noon, Element Church Service at Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center Auditorium
  • Noon–9 p.m., MSU Library Gaming Labs
  • Noon–1 p.m., MSU Hillel Family Brunch (RSVP at msuhillel.org/brunch)
  • 12:15–2 p.m., Element Church Family Weekend Lunch, Brody (RSVP here)