Two Pennsylvania College of Technology students recently installed fiber-optic connectors for Moran Industries, a Watsontown-based logistics company.
A Maryland firm aims to assist construction management students at Pennsylvania College of Technology through a newly established scholarship fund. The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. of Baltimore recently finalized the agreement for the scholarship at Penn College.
Public-service announcements created for area nonprofit clients by students in the mass media communication major at Pennsylvania College of Technology will air locally on cable television. The students are enrolled in an advanced digital media production course offered by the college's School of Integrated Studies.
Damian J. Kotecki, president of the American Welding Society, toured the School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies and the School of Transportation Technology at Penn College on April 5. He is scheduled to take part in an awards dinner for winners of the Central Pennsylvania Section of the American Welding Society's welding contest for secondary and postsecondary students.
James Rhem, a scholar on the role of faculty, will be the fourth speaker in the William C. Butler Lecture Series, which continues April 20 at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Rhem will offer an informative and entertaining presentation on "The Teacher in the Movies," focusing on how teachers and scholars are portrayed in popular cinema.
About 100 elementary-school pupils, teachers and chaperones from the Montgomery Area School District will visit Pennsylvania College of Technology's Schneebeli Earth Science Center near Allenwood in celebration of "Earth Day" on April 20.
Penn College's Student Government Association held its first "Legacy Dinner" on Saturday night, a gathering of ExecutiveBoard membersfrom almost every academic year since 1996-97. Sabrena A. O'Keefe, SGA president, said the idea came from a national conference attended by the current board.
PCToday continues its regular feature welcoming new full-time and regular part-time Penn College employees, as reported by the Human Resources Office.
The Student Government Association has announced the results from last week's six-day online election for its 2006-07 Executive Board. "There was an outstanding turnout, with over5 percent of the student body voting this year beating the 2-percent national average for student government voting turnouts," noted Kirk M.
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