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Three members of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Phi Beta Lambda chapter and a faculty adviser attended the 2007 National Leadership Conference in Chicago from June 20-27. Two of the students gained high honors in the Awards of Excellence program held June 26. Matthew P.

While helping to staff the Bread Bakers Guild of America's annual Camp Bread in San Francisco, School of Hospitality faculty members Monica J. Lanczak and Charles R. Niedermyer took part in building what the guild believes is the tallest bread sculpture ever made. The sculpture is 10 feet, 2 inches high and approximately 4 feet in diameter.

Holding their annual conference at Pennsylvania College of Technology, barely a mile from the birthplace of Little League Baseball, about 50 members of the Pennsylvania Economic Association learned some staggering numbers about the youth-sports organization's fiscal impact on the region.

An investment portfolio managed by a group of Pennsylvania College of Technology business students has outperformed a key industry benchmark in its firstsix months of trading.

Five Pennsylvania College of Technology students will share a $400 third prize for their entry in the 2007 Computer Security Awareness Video Contest sponsored by the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force to raise awareness of and increase computer security at colleges and universities. The team of Maurizio Bertone, of Greenwich, Conn.; Joshua S.

The American Bar Association has granted reapproval to Pennsylvania College of Technology's legal assistant majors, one of only 14 programs in Pennsylvania to be recognized in that fashion.

Terry A. Girdon, head of the business administration department at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has been re-elected to chair the Board of Commissioners of the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education.

Twenty Pennsylvania College of Technology students have been hired to help provide food service for the 133rd running of the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Ky., in early May.

Christi J. Crist, a technology management major from Canton, has been chosen as the Student Government Association's "Student of the Month" for April.

Two Pennsylvania College of Technology students have been selected to attend the National Restaurant Association's Salute to Excellence, scheduled in Chicago in late May.