News Release

Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day April 24

April 8, 2008

Registration deadline is Thursday, April 17 for the annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day program at Penn State Harrisburg.

The day-long event funded by the Chancellor’s Office and the Student Activity Fee Fund, will be Thursday, April 24.

The program schedule includes registration and a continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m. in the Community Center of the student housing complex, campus tours led by the Lion Ambassadors from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., the choice of three science-related workshops from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m., lunch with the Lion at 11:45 in the Community Center, build a birdhouse, web map explorers, or PSU beadworks at 1:30 p.m. and an ice cream social at 3 p.m.

The morning science-focused workshops include information on the vast diversity of insects in the capital region with Tim abbey from the Penn State Cooperative Extension, “CSI Penn State” with campus police officer Marlene Jarbeck, or “Computer Lab Autopsy” in which participants will learn what’s inside their computer from Dave Horan from the Institute of State and Regional Affairs’ Integrated Technology Center.

In the afternoon, children can build a birdhouse with staff from the Capital Resource Conservation and Development Council, explore maps on the web with Brady Stroh from the Penn State Harrisburg Center for Geospatial Information Services, or learn how to create original beads from low-fire clay material with adjunct faculty member Corrine Edris.

For information, contact Steph Hintz at slh227@psu.edu, Nicole Sturges at nls17@psu.edu, or Kim Jorich at kjs1@psu.edu..