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Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day volunteer Tracy Leitzel hands registration badges to participants at the start of this year's event, held April 23.
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Penn State students Jeff Downing, far left, a senior, and Hannah Stratton, left, a sophomore, tend to a high-temperature burner prototype that runs on plastifuel, a material made from nonrecyclable plastics. Behind the two, inside the Agricultural Engineering building, agricultural engineer James Garthe describes the process to participants in Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day on Thursday, April 23.
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Participants in Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day were treated to a three-dimensional aerial view of University Park, shown here as demonstrated by Wade Shumaker, right, senior project associate in the College of IST's CreatIT Studio. This room, called The CAVE, was one of many choices for participants for the event, held on Thursday, April 23.
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Elena Slobounov, lead applications programmer, discusses advanced programming and three-dimensional viewing technology in the Visualization/VR Lab in 336 IST Building during Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, held on Thursday, April 23. Particpants were able to stereoscopic imagery of the kind used in research in science, engineering and information technology.
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Shelly Kachik and her daughter Michelle try their hand at printmaking in the Arts Building. The two chose to spend one of their three sessions in the printmaking studio, one of many possible sites open for Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, held on Thursday, April 23.
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Carolyn Dolbin, executive administrative assistant to Penn State President Graham B. Spanier, gave a tour of the president's office to participants in this year's Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.
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Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day participants check out the view from atop the Old Main bell tower during the event, which was held on Thursday, April 23, as part of their tour of the Office of the President in Old Main. The bell tower, part of the tour, is only open on select days every year.
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At the Office of Physical Plant (OPP) site, Penns Valley junior Alyssa Alexander studies materials used in buildings on campus. The Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day presentation, about the process of building construction from design to furnishing, was given by Monica Reed, an OPP project manager and Penn State architectural engineering graduate.
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Officer Hugo Triveri looks on as Holidaysburg Area Junior High ninth-grader Alex Montgomery tries his hand at walking a straight line while wearing "fatal vision glasses," goggles that simulate having an alcohol blood content of .1 percent (.02 over the legal limit). The site was one of roughly 40 sites set up Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day at Penn State on April 23.
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Libby Kupp, research associate and director of the Advanced Materials Processing Lab, describes the process of making CDs using recently donated equipment during her unit's site presentation as part of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, held April 23.
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Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day participant Brynna Ziegler drew this artist's rendering of nylon fiber being pulled from a beaker after a chemical reaction. She saw this in Penn State's Advanced Materials Processing Laboratory, one of roughly 40 sites participants could visit during the program held April 23.
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Coquese Washington called the participants of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day to come down in front of the stage. The children sat on the floor as she talked to them about their future career paths.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
