What a visit looks like
A school day trip rotates a class through two or three hands-on stations — a robotics build, a bridge-load test, a water-quality sample from the Porter River — run by faculty and trained Porter students rather than a canned demo.
Reaching schools that can't travel
A traveling kit version brings the same stations to a classroom for districts too far or too small to bus students in, and a summer training week helps K-12 teachers adapt the activities for their own curriculum afterward.
In and around Porter Falls
Porter Falls is a town of about 17,000 that has always shared its workforce with the university. Projects are scoped to the Valley first: Porter, Cedar Bluff and Redgranite before anywhere else.
The practical details
Serves: Grades 3–12 across Porter County and the Valley. Format: Field trips to campus and traveling classroom kits. Cost: Free to partner schools, grant-funded. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Office of Outreach & Engagement (Millwright Hall, Room 120). Call (715) 555–0235 or email engage@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.