Penn State Day Agenda

Saturday, October 12, 2024, from 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

On the Ivyside Campus

Welcome; Admissions and Financial Aid Presentation

9:30–10:30 a.m.
Steven A. Adler Athletic Complex

Academic Information Fair

10:30–11:30 a.m.
Adler Athletic Complex Auxiliary Gym

Please reference the academic handout for a list of degree programs.

Sports and Recreation

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Second Floor of the Adler Athletic Complex

Art Club Activity

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Adler Athletic Complex Lobby

Visit the lobby to see a demonstration of some bookbinding techniques and personalize your own pocket sketchbook! Use the fun, Penn State-themed stamps custom-made by our Visual Art Studies majors, or create your very own design.

Information Fair

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Mountain View Room, Port-Sky Café

Learn more about Admissions, Financial Aid, Housing, and Health and Wellness.

Lab Tours

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Visit the following locations to view some of our labs and speak with faculty:

Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology and Mechanical Engineering: Force Technology Center, First Floor Lobby
Tour our engineering labs to see student project areas, the machine shop, a classroom where students learn how to make G-codes for CNC machines, and PLC lab where students learn programming robots and controls.
Kinesiology: 101 Adler Athletic Complex
Visit our newly renovated classroom and teaching laboratory to see our equipment and demonstrations of assessments students learn while in the program.
Mechanical Engineering: Cypress Building
Stop by to tour our new Mechanical Engineering labs.
Psychology: W119 Smith Building
Attend a short demonstration in our Social Science Research Lab to see how you can get involved in research as a student.
Sciences: 105 Holtzinger
Stop by to tour our science lab.

Campus Tours

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Leaving from C102 Smith Building

Take a student-led walking campus tour.

Belonging Center Open House

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
C112 Smith Building

Take a tour of our new Belonging Center, supported by Penn State Altoona’s Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging.

Residence Hall Tours

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Departing from the lawn outside Maple Hall
Talk with residence life staff and student RAs. View a residence hall room.

Student Success Center Open House

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
125 Eiche Library

Take a tour of the new Student Success Center where students can drop in to “Get Help, Get Ahead.”

Penn State Altoona Women's Volleyball vs. Hilbert

1:00 p.m.
Arena, Adler Athletic Complex

Need some retail therapy? Our bookstore is open 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. on Penn State Day.

At the Downtown Campus

Noon–1:30 p.m.

Interested in accounting, business, communications, entrepreneurship, nursing, rail transportation engineering, or IST programs? You’ll want to visit our downtown campus, located just three miles from our Ivyside campus, to meet our faculty and tour our facilities including the nursing simulation lab.

Directions to the downtown campus can be found in your folder. Those visiting the Sheetz Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence should park in the parking garage adjacent to the building. Those visiting the Aaron Building should park in the lot across from the building entrance.

Sheetz Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence

Downtown Campus

Accounting
Business
Sheetz Fellows (Entrepreneurship Student Organization)

Aaron Building