The lush greenery, turquoise waves, and friendly communities of Puerto Rico greeted ten Penn State Harrisburg students at the beginning of spring break in March of this year for the second annual Alternative Spring Break. This year’s group traveled to the island to aid in continuing relief efforts following the devastation of Hurricane Maria.
Twelve Penn State Shenango students and two staff members who traveled to Belize in March will share their stories and pictures during an alternative spring break presentation at 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17, in the campus Forker Lab Forum. The community is invited to attend and learn how this annual trip impacted their lives, as well as the lives of the community they served.
Students traded the snowy Northeast for the sunny Southwest this spring break for a unique networking and professional development opportunity. Eight first-year students from the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology traveled to Austin, Texas, March 2-7 to visit the offices of leading technology companies and network with Penn State alumni.
Students from Penn State Greater Allegheny, along with other Commonwealth Campuses, went to Puerto Rico for an alternative spring break to help devastated communities. Students painted, cleared brush and more.
Twenty students from Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus traveled to Washington, D.C., to complete a service project for the Capital Area Food Bank during the annual alternative spring break trip.
For its second alternative spring break volunteer service trip, Penn State Scranton students and staff traveled to a hurricane damaged area to help families whose homes and lives were devastated by Hurricane Florence last September.
A group of 19 Penn State DuBois students have returned from a spring break trip with new experiences and a fresh perspective on a number of social issues. Rather than spend the break on vacation, these students chose to participate in Alternative Spring Break, and travel to Washington, D.C., where they spent their break helping people who are homeless or living in impoverished conditions.
Penn State Alternative Breaks is searching for faculty, staff or graduate assistants to serve as Learning Partners for this years’ Spring Break service trips.
Penn State Behrend recently renamed the Office of Student Activities as the Office of Student Leadership and Involvement. The name change reflects the emphasis that the office places on the personal growth and leadership development of Penn State students outside of the classroom.
Hurricane-torn Puerto Rico and an impoverished Native American reservation in South Dakota are unlikely spring break destinations, but Penn State Abington students competed to travel to these two areas for Alternative Spring Break.
Eight students in the College of Information Sciences and Technology recently spent a week learning from leaders at innovative tech companies in San Fransisco on the college's annual alternative spring break trip.
Penn State students from around the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania gave up their Spring Break to instead opt-in for an alternative spring break assisting in the Hurricane Harvey relief. Penn State Greater Allegheny (PSUGA) was one of the participating campuses.
More than 100 students from six Penn State campuses spent spring break in Texas, cleaning out homes that were damaged by Hurricane Harvey. "It's easy to repair a house," one said. "It's not as easy to put a home back together."
Penn State Lehigh Valley students spent the week of Spring Break volunteering across the Lehigh Valley through the Mini-Days of Caring program organized by the Office of Student Affairs.
Instead of sitting on a beach in Cancun or Florida or watching Netflix at home, more than 100 Penn State University Park students spent their spring break traveling throughout the country helping others on Alternative Spring Break program trips.
