Penn State's Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day program, sponsored by the Office of Human Resources and the Office of Educational Equity, is scheduled for Thursday, April 23, on the University Park campus. This year's registration will be online at https://app3.ohr.psu.edu/emPower/frm_login.cfm; registration opens Monday, March 30. Brochures will not be printed and mailed this year.
Check-in and continental breakfast for the event takes place from 7:15 to 8 a.m. and the event concludes with a luncheon from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m.
Beginning on Friday, March 27, mentors and student participants will have the opportunity to review the brochure containing the schedule and site sessions by going to http://ohr.psu.edu/take-our-daughters-and-sons-to-work/ This year, a variety of career sites are participating at University Park to give girls and boys in grades six through 12 a chance to explore career options. Participants may select three sites to visit during the half-day program.
When it began in 1993, Take Our Daughters to Work Day was a revolutionary way to encourage adolescent girls' interest and achievement in math and science. Over the years, it expanded their understanding of career opportunities and encouraged equal opportunities for women in the workplace. In 2003, the national program was changed to Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, as a way of inviting boys and girls to examine together occupational opportunities, leaving the program with a better sense of the career path they would like to walk down.
According to the national Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day website, the event is held on a school day so girls and boys can take what they learn in workplaces on Thursday and apply it to the classroom on Friday. By involving whole communities -- schools, girls and boys, parents, workplaces and mentors -- the program helps young people make connections between what they learn in school and their future goals.
The day will begin with breakfast and registration in the main floor lobby of the HUB Robeson Center on Penn State's University Park campus. The students and their mentors, who must be Penn State employees, then visit their chosen career sites and return to the President's Hall of the Penn Stater Conference Center and Hotel for a luncheon featuring O. Richard Bundy, director of the Penn State Blue Band.