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WNEP-TV stopped by the third annual Rotorfest, held Tuesday on the front lawns and parking lots of Pennsylvania College of Technology. Hosted by the emergency management & homeland security major, the event attracted nearly 600 K-12 students and school staff from 13 counties, as well as a range of emergency responders.

A scholar of F. Scott Fitzgerald who is also a professor of English composition and technical communication at Pennsylvania College of Technology will lead a community conversation on Fitzgerald’s timeless classic – “The Great Gatsby.” Hosted by the Otto Bookstore at Nomad Distilling Co., 152 W. Fourth St. Williamsport, the event is set for 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday and features Penn College faculty member Robert R. Bleil.

“Wally’s Library,” a photograph by Nadia V. Zimmerman, a junior in the graphic design major at Pennsylvania College of Technology, is among images accepted into the Southeast Center for Photography’s College ’25 Online Exhibition. The image of Zimmerman’s lizard is among 50 photographs accepted into the exhibition, on view April 1-30.

Thanks to a Northeast Beef & Veal in the Culinary Classroom grant, students in Chef Frank M. Suchwala’s Artisan Butchery & Charcuterie Applications class learned how to break down primal cuts of beef and veal, then researched and showcased recipes using the cuts.

Pennsylvania College of Technology graphic design graduate Casey Gleghorn, ’09, returns to Williamsport to deliver a guest lecture at 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 24, in Lycoming College’s Fine Arts Lecture Hall. Gleghorn is the director of Derosia Gallery in New York City.

Four employers will offer “pop-up” recruiting events March 18-20. Interested students should stop by with their resumes to learn about internship and career opportunities.

A faculty-alumni collaboration is resulting in a new brew to be released next week during Spring Break. Penn College brewing & fermentation science grad Devin (Shellhammer) Smith, head brewer at Clarion River Brewing Co., asked her former instructor, Timothy L. Yarrington, to partner on crafting a traditional British beer.

WNEP-TV’s Mackenzie Aucker squeezed through a crowded Bardo Gymnasium on Tuesday to report on Penn College’s Spring Career Fair. Amid the buzz of networking, Aucker interviewed current students and company representatives about the demand for the college’s tomorrow makers and their hands-on technical skills.

Penn College’s baking & culinary program – under the lead of Chef Frank M. Suchwala, associate professor of hospitality management/culinary arts – prepared two of the five soups featured in the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank’s Ladles of Love fundraiser. Students in this semester’s Foundations of Professional Cooking class spent much of their Wednesday session making the soups: 10 gallons each of smoked tomato basil soup and wild mushroom bisque.

Twenty teams from 12 high schools are set to gather at Pennsylvania College of Technology on March 6 to test their anatomy knowledge using a unique learning technology from Anatomage Inc. In addition to challenging the competitors’ knowledge of anatomical structures, the Anatomage Tournament will provide participants with hands-on experience using Anatomage Table 3D technology.