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Prospective students and their families mingle through tables of information and guidance in the HUB-Robeson Center's Alumni Hall during Spend A Summer Day on Monday, Aug. 2. The day-long event featured all sorts of information for students interested in attending Penn State, including campus tours led by current students and recent graduates.
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Recent Penn State graduate Victoria Thompson, left, guides a campus tour past Old Main during Spend A Summer Day on Monday, Aug. 2, just one of many such tours to take place throughout Penn State University Park during the day. Today's event is just one of three to take place this week. Sessions also will take place on Wednesday and Friday, and will feature the same informative and helpful opportunities for prospective students and their families.
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Engineering professor Martin Threthewey speaks to several dozen prospective Penn State engineering students and their families in Schwab Auditorium during an informational session for those interested in mechanican and nuclear engineering. Joining Trethewey were undergraduate student Amy Szabo and graduate student Tara Sulewski. The session was one of many across campus on Monday, Aug. 2, one of Penn State's Spend A Summer Day events this summer.
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To help aid prospective students and their families in their Spend A Summer Day experience, several mechanisms are in place. Two such methods are seen here in front of the HUB-Robeson Center: a sign, and a corps of alumni volunteers, identifiable by their bright yellow t-shirts. Both kinds of help were available at strategic points around campus.
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One of several sessions in the HUB-Robeson Center featured the College of Health & Human Development, and offered the expertise of more than a dozen students, faculty and staff of the college, including Diane Jankura, undergraduate adviser of the college, seen here at right while representing the School of Nursing.
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The HUB-Robeson Center featured multiple informational presentations and question-and-answer sessions, including this one about the Schreyer Honors College, held in the HUB Auditorium on Monday, Aug. 2.
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Alumni tour guides Sam Seltzer, far left, and Marti Duffy, far right, provide information to Spend A Summer Day visitors Teresa Shock, center left, and daughter Lynne, center right. Many dozens of student and alumni tour guides, identified by their blue or yellow Spend A Summer Day t-shirts, were stationed throughout campus, ready to assist prospective students and their families in their Spend A Summer Day activities.
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Student-led tours of campus take place continuously throughout each Spend A Summer Day event, including this one along the Pattee Mall on Monday, Aug. 2.
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Liberal Arts psychology adviser Maureen Mulenga speaks to assembled Spend A Summer Day visitors during a session in Sparks Building on Monday, Aug. 2. Informational sessions and student and faculty representatives were available in many college facilities across campus during the daylong events, which also will take place on Wednesday and Friday of this week.
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Prospective student Emily, second from left, and her family learn the directions to the Berkey Creamery with the help of alumni tour guide Linda Bailey, second from right. In addition to college- and major-centric informational sessions, a popular stop during Spend A Summer Day is the Creamery.
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Danny, a prospective engineering student from North Wales, PA, and his mother Kathy Adams, enjoy bittersweet mint ice cream cones from the Berkey Creamery at the end of their Spend A Summer Day experience on Monday, Aug. 2.
