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Senior leadership from the staff of U.S. Sen. David H. McCormick (R-Pa.) visited Pennsylvania College of Technology on Tuesday, taking in the impressive labs and touring the college’s equally impressive Career Fair, attracting hundreds of employers eager to recruit the career-ready students.

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.

Students in the college’s architecture and sustainable design majors received a wealth of real-world wisdom and one-on-one time with graduates during the program’s biennial Architectural Alumni & Student Day.

About 100 students at the Lumley Aviation Center experienced a state-of-the-art business jet earlier this week, courtesy of Constellation Brands Inc. The Fortune 500 company flew its Gulfstream G600 twin-engine aircraft from Battle Creek, Michigan, to the Williamsport Regional Airport as part of a recruitment effort for its summer internship program.

Two Pennsylvania College of Technology forest technology graduates and their new business are featured in “The Grain,” the monthly newsletter of the Keystone Wood Products Association. In the article titled “Branching Out: Industry Professionals Unite,” Cody A. Campion, ’11, and Zachery G. Hess, ’12, are welcomed as new members of the association. They own Keystone Timber & Forestry LLC, based in New Columbia, about 10 miles south of where they met – at the college’s Schneebeli Earth Science Center.

Timothy S. Turnbach identifies as a “thinker” and “an idea guy.” The Pennsylvania College of Technology welding instructor validated that self-assessment by conceiving and executing an artistic idea to benefit the Pennsylvania State Education Association. With the assistance of two students and a fellow instructor, Turnbach crafted the PSEA crest on 304 stainless steel.

“Be insanely curious,” recommends Penn College grad Sean Stabler, vice president of operations and innovation at SEKISUI KYDEX. From breaking a lot of equipment on his grandfather's farm to creating his first squirt gun with a ketchup bottle, this born problem-solver shares his career journey and inspiring insights in “Problem Solving in Polymer Engineering."

Known for its off-road prowess, the Land Rover is considered by auto enthusiasts to symbolize adventure and resilience. The same can be said of Sarah E. Crabtree. Appropriately, the Pennsylvania College of Technology student is capping her educational odyssey by restoring a classic version of the vehicle.

Two residential construction textbooks authored by a Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty member were published recently by The Goodheart-Wilcox Co. Inc. Jack Jones, associate professor of building construction technology, wrote a new textbook: “Principles of Residential Construction: Essential Skills and Practices,” and authored the 14th edition of “Modern Carpentry.”

Fifteen students in Penn College’s concrete science technology major were among the close to 58,000 who recently attended World of Concrete, an international trade show that encompasses 700,000 square feet inside and outside the Las Vegas Convention Center.