Student storytellers − members of the Pennsylvania College of Technology chapter of the Alpha Chi National College Honor Scholarship Society −will acquire $500 worth of books for The Children's Learning Center at Penn College and read to children there as part of a project taking place this semester.
Classes resumed as scheduled Tuesday, October 24, at Pennsylvania College of Technology's main campus in Williamsport. An anonymous male caller phoned in a bomb threat to the College switchboard at 10:20 a.m. Monday. All classes were canceled, and students, faculty and staff were directed to evacuate the main campus.
Pennsylvania College of Technology is donating a total of eight computers to a school and a museum in the Williamsport area. The College, through its Computer Services office, will donate six computers to St. Boniface School for use in its classrooms.
An exhibition of posters created by Lanny Sommese for the promotion of the Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts in State College will be on display Oct. 22-28 at Pennsylvania College of Technology's 202 Gallery. Sommese also will present a lecture on Thursday, Oct. 26, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Room 205 of the Bush Campus Center at Penn College.
Pennsylvania College of Technology has announced the winners of the "Mousetrap Racer Contest," held Oct.13 during "Career Day" at the College. Nearly 200 students from more than a dozen high schools around Pennsylvania competed in the annual event, which features a variety of contests involving miniature vehicles whose sole power source is a mousetrap and its spring.
You'll still find it at the same channel, but its name has changed. Pennsylvania College of Technology's student radio station, which provides an educational experience for broadcast communications students, has changed its call letters from WWAS to WPTC .
The site where a local company made Williamsport the "Door Capital of the Nation" for 85 years will be honored with a Pennsylvania State Historical Marker on Oct. 26. The W.D. Crooks and Sons Door Plant was located at the present site of the Bush Campus Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Founded in 1886, the firm crafted high-quality wood-veneer doors for the White House, the U.S.
Author and activist Leslea Newman believes the key to ending homophobia is education: the earlier the better. Newman, who will present a Fall 2000 Lecture Series program on Thursday, Nov.
Students pondering which college to attend can tour Pennsylvania College of Technology on "Fall Visitation Day," Sunday, Oct. 22, to learn more about the applied-technology majors offered in 100 career fields by The Pennsylvania State University affiliate. Tours, exhibits and information sessions will be offered from 10 a.m.
A 30- by 60-foot American flag will be unfurled atop a 120-foot flagpole on Wednesday, Nov. 1, at Pennsylvania College of Technology, the culmination of months of planning and fund raising by a group of local volunteers for the "Flags Across America" campaign.
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