The Central Susquehanna Association for the Education of Young Children will hold its 11th annual conference April 8 at Pennsylvania College of Technology's Klump Academic Center. Leanne Grace and Gerry Hart of Rainbow Hill School in Shickshinny will offer a keynote address, after which participants may choose from 30 workshop sessions.
Pennsylvania College of Technology students once again have proved to be worldly-wise players in the Business Strategy Game, a Web-based competition that pits simulated corporations against one another in the fickle global marketplace. The co-managers of the fictitious Delphi athletic-footwear company Jennie E. Mull, a technology management student from Huntingdon; Amy M.
Some students enrolled in Pennsylvania College of Technology's Cisco Networking Academy program recently had the opportunity to apply the skills they have acquired to the benefit of a Williamsport business: AmerITGrads LLC. Under the supervision of Jeffrey B.
Students from the School of Construction and Design Technologies are displaying their knowledge and skills by creating an area of respite to be enjoyed by the Penn College community. A Remembrance Garden, designed by students in the architecture program at the college, is being constructed on the east side of the Carl Building Technologies Center.
The safety of students and the security of the campus are top priorities at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Penn College Police are on duty across the campus 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Officers are armed and certified, with full powers of arrest. Student-victim crime rates are low when compared to the general population. Crime statistics and alerts are available online.
On March 24, the PAWE (Pennsylvania Association ofWelding Educators) held its first biannual meeting of 2006 inPennsylvania College of Technology'sThompson Professional Development Center. The meeting was attended by 30 secondary educators from across the state.
Penn College construction students became teachers for the day, giving architectural students from The Pennsylvania State University a hands-on tutorial in the School of Construction and Design Technologies' masonry lab.
Students in Donald R. Nibert's Wildlife Management class conducted their annual controlled burn on State Game Lands 252 near the Schneebeli Earth Science Center on Tuesday. "This was the best burn that we ever conducted," said the assistant professor of forestry. "The students gain valuable experience in the control of wildfires through this wildlife-management practice.
Twenty-seven outstanding Penn College women students, faculty and staff were honored at Monday night's inaugural "Celebration of Women" in Penn's Inn. Special guest Rachel Muir, who, in 1999, founded the nonprofit organization Girlstart, gave a keynote address on the mixture of naivete and gumption that prompted her to help young girls succeed in the fields of math, science and technology.
Frederick G. "Rick" Terry, director of the Factory Built Housing Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology, made a presentation recently to a group of commercial modular builders, manufacturers and other industry attendees at the 23rd Annual Modular Building Institute Convention and Trade Show.
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