School-age children can once again experience a University work day on Thursday, April 27, when West Virginia University participates for a sixth year in annual Take Our Daughters to Work Day, a national event designed to promote positive role models for female youth.

Launched by the Ms. Foundation in 1993, this successful program helps girls remain confident, strong and in school during their teenage years, a time when many adolescent females begin to lag behind male counterparts. Although young women are the focus of activities, events are open to all youth.

Participants will begin the day with a 8:30 a.m. continental breakfast in the Mountainlair ballrooms. Door prizes, certificates and various WVU items will be distributed.

Following breakfast, sessions that share the theme Free to Be You and Me will continue in the Mountainlair until noon.

The WVU Council for Womens Concerns, a group co-sponsoring the event, also will host an opening reception and coordinate presentations by WVU departments and programs that illustrate the wide range of career options available to girls such as Dentistry, Anatomy, Geology, Culinary Arts, Nursing, Law, Politics, Broadcast News and other career fields .

For more information or to register, contact the Presidents Office for Social Justice, 293-5496, another co-sponsor.