Location and Accommodations
The Young Writers’ Workshop will be conducted in classrooms and other facilities on Penn State’s University Park campus.
The Penn State residence halls are an ideal lodging location for youth programs. Housing, Food Services, and Residence Life offers a secure and friendly environment for youth. The residence hall community also offers an excellent atmosphere for fun, learning, and growth.
Each floor is gender-specific, and each building is normally assigned to only one gender. University policy requires that youth groups provide a minimum of one counselor for every twenty participants of the same gender. Counselors must be 18 years or older and of the same gender as the participants. The housing office also provides one conference assistant per building for youth programs. Our conference assistants can help participants who need directions, experience homesickness, have roommate issues, etc.
All residence hall areas have television lounges and pay laundry facilities. Pay phones are available in the commons areas. Bed linens are provided. Participants should bring a pillow, pillowcase, blanket, soap, towels, clothes hangers, portable fan, alarm clock, and other personal items. Rooms are not air-conditioned.
Attendees may indicate one roommate preference on the registration form. Listing a roommate preference does not guarantee enrollment of the roommate in the program. If no preference is indicated, the housing office will assign a roommate.
Each hall has twenty-four-hour door-card access for assigned residents. Only residents can access the hall. The doors are always locked.
Because the security and safety of youth participants are important, youth attendees must be in their assigned residence halls by 11:00 p.m. University-student auxiliary police monitor the residence halls and surrounding areas overnight.
Travel
By car: The Penn State University Park campus is located in the center of the state, at the intersection of Interstate 99/Route 26 and Route 322, fifteen miles
south of Interstate 80, and is within driving distance of many major cities, including Harrisburg (1.5 hrs., 90 mi.), Pittsburgh (3 hrs., 137 mi.), Philadelphia (3.5 hrs., 194 mi.),
Baltimore (3.5 hrs., 155 mi.), Washington, D.C. (4 hrs., 190 mi.), New York City (5 hrs., 250 mi.), and Toronto (6.5 hrs., 304 mi.).
By air: The State College/University Park Airport is located near the University Park campus. Call 814-865-5511 or visit http://www.universityparkairport.com/ for information on flights.
See http://www.psu.edu/ur/visitors.html for detailed visitor information, including maps.
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