While forecasters are predicting colder temperatures and rain for the upcoming days, activities planned for this weekend's Blue-White game will continue as scheduled.

"We're going to have a full scale carnival, swings, pirate ships, bumper cars and a gravitron," said Jordan Katz, marketing coordinator for Penn State Football and Basketball.

Like most game days, Curtin Road will be closed off and be used as a promenade into the festivities that will be held in the parking lot of Beaver Stadium and in the grass area around it.

What Curtain Road will lead to should be overwhelming for any football fan.

"The parking lot will be for the carnival," Katz said. "On the grass will be a 40-foot stage where activities will be held all day long."

Those activities include the members of the 1994 Big Ten Championship and Rose Bowl winning team returning for a reunion as well as an autograph session.

"On the stage all day long there will be live bands, student acts, the dance team as well as some sororities coming up to dance," Katz said.

Along with these groups, the Blue Band is scheduled to perform as well as shows from the Penn State cheerleaders and dance team.

Not only are student groups performing for the crowds that are coming out to the Blue-White game, but students will also have the opportunity to play sportscaster for the day.

"We'll be holding our version of the reality show Dream Job," Katz said. "We're calling it 'Penn State Dream Job' and we'll have a 10 ft. screen behind the students and run highlights and give the students the chance to announce as if they were really a sports announcer."

If calling a play-by-play is not for you then maybe singing is. Local radio stations will be holding their own version of the hit reality show American Idol and giving students a chance to sing in Karaoke Idol.

Student and corporate booths will also be lined up all around the festivities running activities all day long.

"We have about fifteen student booths," Katz said. "These students are not only promoting their groups but also running some fun activities."

These activities include such things as face painting for that little kid in all of us, along with a dunk tank and a twenty-yard dash.

With all of these activities going on all day long everyone is bound to get a little hungry.

Corporate booths at the festivities will be on site to promote their business and hand out some free food.

"We have Cold Stone Creamery and Qdoba coming," Katz said. "Also there will be carnival food such as cotton candy, sausages and candy apples, too."

If it sounds to you like it's going to be a crazy and fun weekend, you'd be right.

"A lot of people just don't realize how huge it's going to be, we have a sixty-foot Ferris Wheel," said Chi-Chi Aduba, event coordinator and 2004 Penn State graduate. "People can enjoy the music, food and activities and then go into the Blue-White game."

However, the thought of rain still looms over some student's minds about whether to head out to Beaver Stadium this weekend.

"It sounds like something fun and different to do on a weekend and it's free," said Megan Loncaric (junior-human development and family studies). "If it's not raining I'll definitely head up there with my friends."

Saturday night will end with a concert by Audio Imagery, and Katz is hopeful that those students who aren't football fans find a way to enjoy the weekend, cotton candy, face painting and all.