With the kick-off to Texas Tech’s Centennial coming in a lot less than 100 days absent, the college this 7 days announced its ideas for celebrating the milestone in a 2023 packed with gatherings around Lubbock, throughout the point out and country.

The celebrations will formally kick off on Dec. 2 at the Carol of Lights getaway lighting celebration on the Tech campus in Lubbock. Even so, a day right before the kick-off, the Texas Tech Museum will open up its Centennial Show at 10 a.m. in Lubbock, with no cost admission.

Texas Tech was officially established on Feb. 10, 1923, and in the earlier 100 years Tech has grown and developed into a program with additional than 40,000 college students throughout the point out and about the planet.

“In our 1st century, we have turn out to be a world-course, internationally acknowledged university,” Texas Tech President Lawrence Schovanec mentioned in a centennial short article from the university. “Our next century is an prospect for us to elevate our thinking even further to provide all who select to pursue a school diploma at Texas Tech, no make a difference where they appear from and to uncover inventive methods to some of the world’s largest troubles. We have the ability to do all these matters, and we will.”