The Community Arts Center is featured in PCN's original series, "Pennsylvania's Neighborhood: Williamsport," airing much of this week on the cable channel.
Two Williamsport-area nonprofits will again support one another during the Little League Baseball World Series, as budding culinary artists and paramedics from Pennsylvania College of Technology gain experience, and Little League players and fans benefit from their skill. The nationally televised series, scheduled Aug. 16-27, draws tens of thousands of spectators each day to the Little League World Series complex in South Williamsport, just a few miles from the Penn College campus.
A diverse group of plastics professionals from throughout North America experienced higher-level technology in rotational molding during a recent workshop hosted by Pennsylvania College of Technology and its renowned Plastics Innovation & Resource Center.
Threatening skies delivered on their radar-green promise of a soggy Monday, but it wasn't enough to scuttle Penn College's proud prelude to the Little League Baseball World Series.
Helpful crews of students and staff delivered an expanded menu of activities and assistance during Welcome Week, easing new students onto their soon-to-be-familiar Penn College home. From Wednesday's check-in and move-in ... through entertainment and events that calmed the flutter of last-minute butterflies ... to Monday's start of classes, Penn College News photographers were there.
Pennsylvania College of Technology has received an $18,750 grant to support its Lycoming County Prison-to-College Program. The initiative aims to break down initial barriers to education and help individuals on a path to bettering themselves and their communities.
Pennsylvania College of Technology sponsored a hole at Friday's Ray Venema Memorial Golf Tournament, held at White Deer Golf Course by the West Branch Susquehanna Builders Association. Proceeds from the tournament went toward a scholarship in the name of Venema, who – as owner of Susquehanna Builders and a past president of the WBSBA – was a loyal and generous supporter of the Penn College Construction Association and its member students.
Clay art pieces crafted by Gerald G. Kaplan, instructor of ceramics at Pennsylvania College of Technology, were selected for display in two national juried exhibitions this summer – one in the heart of New Orleans and the other in rural, southwestern Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania College of Technology men’s soccer team enjoyed an international trip to England and Scotland from July 28-Aug. 6, competing in three matches and touring historical sites in both countries.
As if Welcome Week isn't epic enough, greeting new and returning students as they prepare to leave their mark on the invitingly blank canvas of a fresh semester. Thursday night's activities alone brought a soaking rain, a swag toss to the screaming (and standing-room-only) mass of Wildcat fans who poured into UPMC Field, remarks from President Michael J. Reed – whose birthday prompted a crowdsourced serenade – and, accenting the beauty of a campus in full flower, a rainbow!
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