Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry Secretary Jennifer Berrier on Tuesday toured Indiana County's River Valley STEAM Academy, a workforce development education model that partners with Pennsylvania College of Technology, among others, to prepare students for in-demand careers, including cybersecurity, electrical occupations, and sports medicine and rehabilitative therapy.
Challenges are a mere blip on Coryn A. Oswald’s radar. While a plastics & polymer engineering technology student, she survived a life-changing motorcycle accident and returned to Penn College stronger than ever. Today, she’s thriving – thanks to the friendships and support she’s found on the Wildcat volleyball team.
Students in the Grand Pastry Display course placed a capstone on their baking & pastry arts studies Friday with a display that showed off the skills they’ve learned throughout their Penn College career, including the new skills of planning and preparing a pastry buffet.
Fourteen Pennsylvania College of Technology students recently passed the state Department of Agriculture’s Pennsylvania Pesticide Applicator Certification exam. “This certification will help these students separate themselves from their competition,” said Carl J. Bower Jr., assistant professor of horticulture.
Pennsylvania College of Technology wrestlers placed fifth in a 15-team invitational field Saturday, while the college’s basketball teams opened United East play with road losses. FLASHBACK Wrestling At the RIT Invitational, the Wildcats came away with one individual second-place finish, two thirds, one fifth and one sixth. Isaac Cory, of Montoursville, seeded No.
Pennsylvania College of Technology and Lycoming College are extending a tuition-exchange pilot program that may benefit full-time employees at both city institutions – as well as their dependent children and spouses/partners. The pilot program has supported employee recruitment and retention at both institutions; the extension is expected to perpetuate those efforts.
Midnight Breakfast – a gastronomical (though unscientific) gauge of student success – was held from 10 p.m.-midnight Thursday in the Keystone Dining Room. The free student meal featured a menu of breakfast sandwiches, bacon, home fries, ice cream, a yogurt bar and beverages.
The Community Arts Center is the recipient of $5,000 from PPL Electric Utilities through the Pennsylvania Education Improvement Tax Credit program, a contribution that will be used to support the theater's Dec. 3-4 presentation of "The Nutcracker." “Educational Improvement Tax Credits allow PPL to enhance and improve educational opportunities for students.
Construction management students at Pennsylvania College of Technology brought home second- and third-place honors from the 33rd annual Associated Schools of Construction Region 1 Student Competition, held Nov. 10-12 in Albany, New York. Penn College’s Heavy Highway/Civil Estimating team, one of 10 colleges in that division, placed second.
Three wood engravings crafted by David M. Moyer, assistant professor of graphic design at Pennsylvania College of Technology, are among artwork exhibited at the 2022 International Contemporary Miniprint of Kazanlak exhibition at the Kazanlak Art Gallery in Bulgaria. The exhibition features more than 500 original works from over 180 artists in 40 countries. David M.
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