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April 19, 2001
Show your daughter the ropes
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Participants in a recent Take Our Daughters to Work Day workshop learn engineering basics. Photo by Candace diCarlo |
On Take Our Daughters to Work Day, Thursday, April 26, girls 9 to 15
can learn about the world of work, careers, and other matters, including
health, nutrition and fitness.
Young girls and their sponsors can meet prominent Penn women at work,
sit in on the Penn Relays, tour the David Rittenhouse Laboratory observatory
and more. The event is sponsored by Penns Quality of Work Life Program.
For information or to register for activities, visit www.hr.upenn.edu/quality/daughters.htm
on the Web.
Dont have a daughter? You can adopt one for the day. Contact Penn VIPS Coordinator Isabel Sampson-Mapp (sammapp@pobox.upenn.edu; 215-898-2020) for details.
Originally published on April 19, 2001
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