The 162-year-old campus of the University of Notre Dame is famous not only for its legendary football team but also the mystique of its 1250-acre campus. Founded as a school for young men by Father Edward Sorin, the university became co-educational in 1972 and boasts a student population of approximately 10,000.
Notre Dame, Ind. – An estimated 4,000 twirlers from the Canada, Europe and the United States will converge on the University of Notre Dame’s Joyce Center for the 39th Annual America’s Youth on Parade (A.Y.O.P.).
Festivities will include crafts, animal encounters and hot cocoa in the zoo's classroom. The heated Indoor Learning Center will be open where zoo visitors can see over 100 animals including monkeys, lemurs, rattlesnakes, vipers, copperheads, pythons, poison dart frogs, bats and tortoise.