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A record number, 570, registered for this year's Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day on April 24 on the University Park campus of Penn State. The participants, girls and boys in grades 6 to 12, chose up to three sessions to visit on the campus to assist in career exploration. For more information on this program, visit www.outreach.psu.edu/conference/DaughtersToWork
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Kathy Liebrum shows Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day mentor Emillie Smith the location of one of her career sites.
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Jeff Stevens and a Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day participant read radiation levels from a common household plate at the Breazeale Nuclear Reactor.
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A simple experiment with salt that has been exposed to a small amount of radiation shows that when heated it emits light. This experiment was used during a site visit to the Breazeale Nuclear Reactor, part of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.
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Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day participants learn how to extract fruit DNA in the chemistry lab.
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John Cottage, lifeguard, keeps careful watch over the pools at the McCoy Natatorium. Lifeguarding is one of many career opportunities available in a aquatic setting. The McCoy Natatorium was one site available during Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.
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Megan Marco, freshman in Division of Undergraduate Studies, practices dives with the help of a harness while Craig Brown, head diving coach at Penn State, offers instruction. The demonstration was part of McCoy Natatorium's site during Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.
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Annie Morgan and Leigh Silkunas, both seniors in Hotel and Restaurant Management, look on as a Take Our Daughters and Sons mentor partakes of food prepared at the Department of Nutritional Sciences Foods Lab.
Both young women have accepted positions within their field, choosing from multiple offers.
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Al Matyasovsky, a supervisor in Central Support Services in the Office of Physical Plant, looks on as a Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day participant learns the basics of recycling at Penn State's Recycling Center off of Fox Hollow Road. The elevated location of the recycling center, once a hole in the ground, is the result of 60 years of clean fill.
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Billie Willits, associate vice president for human resources at Penn State, gave the morning welcome and introduced the afternoon speaker to the Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day participants.
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Joe Battista, former head coach of the Penn State Icers, was the keynote speaker for this year's Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day event. Battista's message was "Developing Options and Making Informed Decisions."
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