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Penn College put a new spin on its year-end celebration for 2020, offering a door-decorating competition in lieu of the large-scale wooden greetings that have annually graced the campus mall for decades. A total of 29 entrants – 14 student organizations and 15 offices/departments – vied for the top three honors in each category, acknowledging a variety of holiday and faith traditions.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's horticulture department delivered 450 poinsettia plants to UPMC Susquehanna on Thursday for distribution to health care workers. The plants are annually grown in the Schneebeli Earth Science Center greenhouse for a holiday sale, but ongoing COVID-19 concerns prompted the traditional event's cancellation.

In January, Pennsylvania College of Technology’s paramedic program will launch a hybrid instruction option that combines in-person and online learning.

Hammer, Caputo, Placencia, Beaver and Jones (from left) collaboratively conquer the towering task before them. Placencia, an Army ROTC cadet who will be commissioned as a second lieutenant later this month, affixes a ball filled with ribbons from a prior year's fundraiser. Nearing the end of the line, Beaver (left), Jones and Caputo fill in the gaps with one final strand.

An international honor society dedicated to information technology has recognized the excellence of a Pennsylvania College of Technology student. Jacob A. Bamonte, of Milton, is one of eight students nationwide to receive a $1,500 Academic Achievement Award from Upsilon Pi Epsilon.

Pennsylvania College of Technology recently revamped more than a half-dozen labs in its Electrical Technologies Center. The labs, which serve four electrical degree programs, consist of new equipment and scores of individual work stations for students. About 100 students per semester receive vital hands-on experience in the industry-standard labs – including Tyler J.

The extracurricular work of Pennsylvania College of Technology students Jonathan D. Yeagy, of Harrisburg, and Andrew E. Young, of Hollidaysburg, has provided an online face for an 11-year-old’s budding nonprofit. Television coverage of Aly's Monkey Movement included a mother's on-air praise for Pennsylavnia College of Technology.

Through a newly formed partnership, Terex Corp. is providing the latest technology to Pennsylvania College of Technology with the donation of a new crane engine and four drive axles. The equipment, valued at nearly $70,000, will be used to enhance instruction in the college’s heavy construction equipment technology and diesel technology programs.

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Chef Charles R. Niedermyer, instructor of baking and pastry arts/culinary arts, was recently published in Kettle Talk, the quarterly publication of Retail Confectioners International. Niedermyer authored “Perfecting Artisan Ganache” for the magazine’s October/November/December issue. Ganache is traditionally made from chocolate and cream.

Capitol Eatery employees decorated the tops of the to-go boxes as they prepared to deliver Thanksgiving meals. KDR staff puts smiley-face stickers on meal orders to brighten students' day! Penn College's Dining Services staff has been collectively called an "essential hero" for preparing and providing nourishment to students cloistered by the coronavirus.