Spend a Summer Day volunteer and Penn State alumnus Arnold Gasche, left, explains part of a map of University Park to prospective undergraduate applicant Zach, right, and his mother Laurie Miller on Monday, July 27. Spend a Summer Day, a series of daylong college information sessions, runs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday through Aug. 7. During the course of the day, high school students such as Zach are able to tour campus and college facilities, ask questions of students and staff, and find out all there is to learn about Penn State that would aid in the process of college applications.

Kinesiology professor Steve Piazza, far center, was one of about a dozen instructors from the College of Health and Human Development on hand in the HUB-Robeson Center's Heritage Hall on Monday, July 27, as part of the college's presence at University Park's Spend a Summer Day program. Spend a Summer Day, designed to provide information for prospective Penn State undergraduate applicants, is a yearly event held on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of the weeks of July 27 and Aug. 2. Each day features sessions facilitated by students, faculty and staff from each college on campus, allowing high school students and their families a chance to ask questions and learn more about Penn State.

Prospective students and their families trek through a damp stretch of West Campus on their way to informational sessions as part of the Spend a Summer Day event on Wednesday, July 29. The day, one of six offered on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of the weeks of July 27 and Aug. 2, offers high school students and their families a chance to learn about all of Penn State's colleges, as well as affording them an opportunity to meet Penn State students and staff on hand to answer questions and give facilities tours.

Geoscience professor Dave Bice, right, takes a small group of visiting high school students and family members on a tour of the College of Earth and Mineral Science facilities in the Deike Building on Wednesday, July 29. The small group tour was one of several made available by the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences to show prospective undergraduate student applicants the varying programs available at University Park. Students could choose from dozens of such sessions lead by all colleges at University Park. Sessions run throughout the day on any Monday, Wednesday and Friday between July 27 and Aug. 7.

The Nittany Lion mascot braved significant rainfall in Happy Valley on Wednesday, July 29, to make a surprise appearance on campus, seen here near the HUB-Robeson Center, in order to greet prospective student applicants and their families during Spend a Summer Day on Wednesday, July 29. The day of programs was one of six such sessions on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of the weeks of July 26 and Aug. 2 at University Park, all of which were available to any high school student interested in applying to or attending Penn State. Representatives from every college on campus were on hand during the day-long events to provide information, lead facilities and campus tours, and answer questions.