Take Our Children to Work Day 2025 brought together ninety-five children and parents on April 24th for 'Building Hope: A Day of Discovery,' a day filled with exciting demonstrations from Pennovation Works companies.
After a brief introduction, participants split up into groups and moved onto the Plaza for a Penn Vet Working Dog Center search and rescue activity and exercise demonstration. Groups then rotated through demonstrations from Axonova, Interius, Instapath, and Vertiq which included a paper airplane distance competition, hands on experiments showing the properties of light and fluorescence, exploring pH through red cabbage watercolors, and a review of commonly used materials and the impact they on the environment as they become waste.
One participant stated, “It was quite an adventure! We traveled around the city by train, bus, and trolley. We visited Pennovation Works and built a bottle brush robot…My niece said it was the ‘best day of her life.’”
