Outreach Activities

Geography Awareness Week

Geography Awareness Week takes place each November. Since 1987, the National Geographic Society has sponsored Geography Awareness Week to promote geographic literacy in schools, communities, and organizations around the world. Penn State opens its doors to teachers and students, hosting programs to teach geographic literacy, throughout the week. Click here for more information.

HOINA Service Learning Program

Since 2000, Schreyer Honors College scholars have traveled to India to work in the Indian orphanages Homes of the Indian Nations--HOINA. HOINA "houses, feeds, clothes and educates south India's abandoned, abused, and orphaned children—from infancy to adulthood—providing food, clothing, medical care, education, and training them for professional careers" through two orphanages--one male and one female. Click here for more information.